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Grumpy grumpy me

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So. Your Humble Blogger saw Million Dollar Baby the other day. And the rest of this column is about the plot twist, and its representations elsewhere. So if you want to be surprised by the twist—and I was, more or…

85 – 13

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On the whole, I think that the President of the United States should be able to choose the Cabinet he wants to govern with. Yes, the Senate should advise before it consents, but for me the bar for turfing a…

Ranting

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I do not like to use this Tohu Bohu as a griping zone just to call attention to those things in the world that I think are wrongheaded, but an article by Sharon Waxman called Onscreen, It’s the Season of…

MFQ again

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The New York Times Magazine appears to have gone sort of nuts for toys this week. In addition to a disturbingly wonderful slide show of cutting-edge Japanese playgrounds, and another slideshow that’s less wonderful and more disturbing, what with the…

Around the Horn

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I’ve seen a few things recently on-line that are interesting, but about which I don’t have enough to write an essay. So: From the Language Log, Arnold Zwicky writes about Two and Threes, specifically about the figure of speech taken…