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How to win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest: “Excepting first names, only nine proper nouns have ever appeared in a winning caption: Batmobile, … gulfstream/2450
Christopher Hitchens: “Why are we so scared of offending Muslims?” This may not be precisely right, but I think he’s saying that there’s no necessary … gulfstream/2317
Nice series by Tim Wu on some categories of laws that are not actively enforced (including copyright laws, immigration laws), and why. gulfstream/2342
“Today, more than 40 percent of the black girls born in California in a given year receive a name that not one of the roughly 100,000 baby white … gulfstream/1721
Apparently, “literally” has been used for emphasis for ages. gulfstream/1871
Adam L. Penenberg proposes that Apple run iTunes like a stock market, with price determined by demand. “The more people who download the … gulfstream/1901
Long Tail doubters: Slate says Anderson is overreaching; the WSJ says his data is bogus. I’m still pretty skeptical of this (previously); whatever the … gulfstream/2127
Wow, art conservators take their jobs really seriously: to fixing Steve Wynn’s ripped Picasso they’s (may) attempt to match up individual fibres. … gulfstream/2180
Writers name their favourite fonts. “Obsessing about fonts is a form of procrastination, so of course I have indulged in it ever since I graduated from … gulfstream/2283
Anne Applebaum is really really good. (So is her Slate colleague William Saletan.) gulfstream/552
(Last letter: Bush says (in relation to stem-cell research) “no human life should be exploited or extinguished for the benefit of another”; how … gulfstream/748
Jacob Weisberg is the new editor of Slate. gulfstream/774
The excerpts used in an English exam taken by New York's public-school high-school seniors have been “extensively altered,” etc. I don't think … gulfstream/813
Review of Joseph Stiglitz’s Globalization and Its Discontents. Stiglitz is an ex-chief economic adviser of the World Bank and a Nobel laureate; … gulfstream/859
A thrilling mix-up in the Washington D.C. Democratic Mayoral primary: incumbent Anthony Williams for some reason failed to get his name on … gulfstream/916
L.A.’s D.A. wants to put Winona Ryder away for three years: “an exposé conducted by the entertainment tabloid Extra, Celebrity Justice … gulfstream/934
Zac Unger, a firefighter who last year wrote a terrific Slate diary on his job, is this week writing about the birth and first days of his … gulfstream/951
Slate is now making money. (Also discussion of how being an arm of Microsoft helps, general analysis of the economics of web publishing.) … gulfstream/1130
CD of poets reading their own poems. (An Atlantic Monthly article links to some similar recordings, including Sylvia Plath reading “Lady Lazarus.”) … gulfstream/1203
Slate’s “Field Guide” to the 2004 presidential candidates. gulfstream/1262
Book review: Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life. Authentic, in this sense, seems to mean stuff you couldn’t possibly … gulfstream/1280
Don’t trust Islamists? (A surprisingly one-sided piece for Slate.) gulfstream/1482
Who Slate staffers are voting for. Interesting: Christopher Hitchens (what is he going on about?), Steven Landsburg (idiot—but thinks he’s … gulfstream/1597
Weirdness: Slate asks its contributors who they intend to vote for; in reponse, Christopher Hitchens says many garbled things, including “I do … gulfstream/1603
Slate is running an amazingly supportive and amazingly uncritical piece on the Marines who pilot UAV’s in Fallujah, calling in air strikes. … gulfstream/1617
Slate has some doubts about the viability of Catholic planned city Ave Maria—shared beliefs won’t be enough, the author says, you need shared culture … gulfstream/2021
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For a long time, the four major fashion capitals had identifiable styles. Milan was known for streamlined clothes and industrial might. (Giorgio Armani … quotes/486
Anyone here been raped and speaks English? -- Question alleged shouted out by an unknown British TV reporter at a Congo airport during the … quotes/463
Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, say, carried … quotes/440
Most of us are not Patrick Henry and would be willing to lose a great deal of freedom in order to save our lives. This is especially true when the freedom … quotes/439
It's as if I asked you, 'What kind of movies do you like?' Tell me two or three good movies.' And you say, 'I like movies with good acting. I like movies … quotes/425
I pushed back my chair (Crazy Legs had recommended standing to help gravity along). Although I was starving, as the countdown began, I looked at the balls … quotes/408
The final revisions were astounding. "Look at this," said a colleague, an editor who greatly admired Bellow's novels but disliked him personally. He was … quotes/403
As they clustered tightly alongside the Kennedys, or took in the scene from Fleet Center skyboxes, it became clear that if the Republicans are the party … quotes/343
So I know, thanks, before you tell me, that a documentary must have a "POV" or point of view and that it must also impose a narrative line. But if you … quotes/342
[A]nyone depressed over his weight became a "gentle giant" and every binge drinker was the life of the party. ... As the Portraits accumulated over weeks … quotes/322
The American Civil Liberties Union is alarmed, but the ACLU's function, which I admire and support, is to be alarmed before I am, like the canary down … quotes/316
He won't garner many delegates during Wednesday night's roll call, but Howard Dean still leads in the hearts of at least one demographic: people with … quotes/315
There's a contradiction implicit in O'Connor's view of herself and her view of others. She is deeply impressed by these extraordinary young women yet … quotes/306
Here is an important new development in the Washington press corps' perceptions game. Often in the past, when chasing some alleged miscreant, the press … quotes/301
Reserving government contracts for domestic companies violates international law, of course. It seems like just the other day that Donald Rumsfeld was … quotes/289
Toward the end of his half-hour with Rafal, a cellular phone went off somewhere in the room--a big taboo at a serious music event--and it wasn't just … quotes/222
Harper's is edited by Lewis Lapham, a WASP fond of literary essays on subjects such as kissing. -- Bruce Gottlieb http://slate.msn.com/code/Explainer/Explainer.asp?Show=7/1/1998&idMessage=1948 quotes/213
Then De Carli notes that a girl was recently arrested for simply eating fries in the Metro. Souter asks, "Where?" "In D.C.," replies De Carli. "I … quotes/203
But the most important reason why Fox clings to its façade is the nature of its audience. Fox's viewers want a conservative news network but don't want … quotes/201
The least I could do is come up with a better Secret Service code name. Ever since four years ago, when I was put on the spot and told "two syllables" … quotes/197
God bless that little chowderhead. -- Jack Shafer, refering to Matt Drudge and his willingness to release exit-poll data. http://slate.msn.com/code/PressBox/PressBox.asp?Show=3/7/00&idMessage=4788 quotes/195
My cell door slammed open at 6:30 this morning as always. I walked to the chow hall with Eddie and Stan. My table was full, so I sat down at Stan's table. … quotes/194
A word about fact checking. Several hindsight artists have been quoted in the press saying that the New Republic's fact checkers should have caught Glass. … quotes/193
When I first arrived at the penitentiary, because it was my first time in prison, I didn't know anybody and nobody knew me, so they all sat back and observed … quotes/192
You show me a kid who's not sneaking into R-rated movies and I'll show you a failure in the making. The future C.E.O.'s of America are all sneaking into … quotes/186
But absolutism is also a great weakness, because it puts you at the mercy of your own logic. Opposition to stem-cell research is the reductio ad absurdum … quotes/171
Chatterbox's Law of Biological Determinism: Conservatives believe that genes determine everything except homosexuality; liberals believe that genes determine … quotes/156
Financial analysts have long recognized that Microsoft's profit really comes from two sources. One is operating systems (Windows, in all its varieties), … quotes/155
Ad for 'Sleepy Hollow': "'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made ..." The full sentence: "'Sleepy Hollow' … quotes/153
There are at least three kinds of reasons governments give for limiting people's freedom. First, some acts, like filming child pornography, injure the … quotes/127
The rationale [behind the attorney-client privilege] is that it is in society's interest for people to seek advice from lawyers in order to make sense … quotes/126
Former Rep. Bella Abzug, D-N.Y., died. Obituaries remembered her as a brave, strong-willed feminist and anti-war activist. The spins: 1) She epitomized … quotes/120
Neither Spielberg, nor screenwriter David Koepp, nor Michael Crichton, on whose novel the movie is based, have shown any interest in challenging the moralistic … quotes/97
At the moment, though, physicists are not doing so well in the simplicity department. Their so-called Standard Model is a stick-and-bubblegum contraption. … quotes/79
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The Party of Lincoln ... - By David Greenberg - Slate Magazine
licoln was a republican/how democrats became the party for blacks over the 30s, 40s, 50s
The real case against a national director of intelligence. - By Duncan Watts - Slate Magazine
Chris Rock - The William F-ing Buckley of stand-up. By John Swansburg
Just Supposin' - In defense of hypothetical questions. By Michael Kinsley
Shopping With Betty - Remembering Betty Friedan. By Emily Bazelon
Dad's Sad, Mad: Too Bad - Why dads don't count when it comes to abortion. By Dahlia Lithwick
The Village Voice fires a famous music critic. By Jody Rosen - Slate Magazine
on Robert Christgau, including nice analysis of his tight review of radiohead's kid a
A San Francisco museum reinvented. - By Witold Rybczynski - Slate Magazine
Can photographers be plagiarists? - By David Segal - Slate Magazine
Why does it take hours to evacuate a sinking ship? - By Michelle Tsai - Slate Magazine
The Web site that captures idle chatter. - By Sam Anderson - Slate Magazine
loving 2005 review of overheardinnewyork
Blade Runner, revisited. - By Stephen Metcalf - Slate Magazine
