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Category Archives: current events
Anti-Power Point? Whyfore?
All right, I actually vividly know and understand the problems with Power Point as a means of presenting information. When you’re reading slides to a meeting, you’re missing the point of using them. Slides in PowerPoint should be like the … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-power point party, powerpoint, sweden, swedish politics
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I’m All For Unzipping the Founding Fathers, But…
One of the most popular stories on the Newsweek/Daily Beast site right now is the debut column of Simon Schama, a professor of history at Columbia University. Part of the column’s popularity no doubt comes from its title, "The Founding … Continue reading
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Tagged clap trap, death of thomas jefferson day, founding fathers, fourth of july, newsweek
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Two interesting reads
The New York Times (of all places) is discussing the “trend” toward wacky nail polish colors. As someone who’s always worn blue nail polish — it’s my favorite color — it’s interesting to see this being described like a new-and-formerly-alternative … Continue reading
The wonder, the worry: Gay marriage comes to New York
I am too young by far to have lived during the Civil Rights era, and I have grown up, instead, in the decades that have followed, when progress seems to be made in fits and starts, in tiny local jumps … Continue reading
Neil Patrick Harris + Lin Manuel Miranda = Love
I am pretty unsecretly in love with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the artist behind the dazzling Alexander Hamilton rap at the White House (and please, please let The Hamilton Mixtape not be a joke). He (and Thomas Kail) crafted a rap for … Continue reading
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Tagged lin-manuel miranda, neil patrick harris, nph, tony awards
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Well, here’s something gay-positive from the 30 Rock Cast
Though the news (and is it really news?) of the day is that Tracy Morgan is a jerk, there are other “30 Rock” stars who aren’t. Though I’d like to see what Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey actually think and … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 rock, alec baldwin, jesse tyler ferguson, modern family, tracy morgan
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Bear pets
Reuters – Click to see full story Look, family in Slovenia, I know it seems like a good idea to adopt a bear cub. There’s this tiny little brown bear, abandoned by is family, and gosh, he’s so cute! He … Continue reading
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Too Big Too Fail Might Sell Me on HBO
A movie has been made of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s dramatic, fun Wall Street bankruptcy book, Too Big To Fail, and everyone who I could possibly hope for — perhaps short of Kevin Kline — is in this movie. William Hurt … Continue reading
In Defense of the Royal Wedding
There’s a handy GOOD flow-chart making the rounds of the Twitterverse at the moment, the lesson of which is that only a nihilist would care about the Royal Wedding. This is because, I gather, it is impossible to care about … Continue reading
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Tagged celebrity, entertainment, kate middleton, prince william, royal wedding, thor
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