January 2012
8 posts
National Geographic Magazine: Lady with a Secret |... →
nationalgeographicmagazine:
By Tom O’Neill Photograph by Gianluca Colla Bianca Sforza attracted few stares when introduced to the art world on January 30, 1998. She was just a pretty face in a frame to the crowd at a Christie’s auction in New York City. Nobody knew her name at the time, or the name of the artist who had…
EXCLUSIVE: Downed airmen tell their tale – CNN... →
The City Dark - Movie Trailers - iTunes →
New Year, New Adventures
January 14-16: Skiing in Italy
January 28 - February 5: Republic of Georgia
February 17-26: Germany
While my actual New Year’s Resolution was to get more sleep (which I am so far making good on), a more fun resolution (or aspiration?) might be to visit a different country every month this year. So cheers to 2012! The year I get more sleep! And maybe do some traveling.
Montana Supreme Court, Citizens United: Can... →
December 2011
12 posts
Jurors Can Say No - NYTimes.com →
Boutique Aloft Hotel slated for David Whitney... →
If Twilight 4 Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times... →
Anyone who has read twilight will appreciate this.
Now That the Factories Are Closed, It’s Tee Time... →
City of Grosse Pointe Foundation Projects →
Scroll down to a photo of a park bench.
I just happened upon this on the internet. I had no clue it existed. I could not be more touched. Truly overwhelmed and touched. Thank you internet, Grosse Pointe Foundation, and everyone who had anything to do with this.
Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts -... →
Epilogue to the Movie "Hotel Rwanda" →
The two “villains” depicted in the movie were both recently convicted by the ICTR.
November 2011
3 posts
Fact: Stonehenge was built by sheep.
4 tags
October 2011
7 posts
True wit is nature to advantage dressed,
What oft was thought, but ne’er...
– Alexander Pope
In Year 11 as a Tiger, Inge Finds Life After... →
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: You Look at Me Like... →
So meta.
Michael Rosenberg: Granderson induces such sweet... →
CAAFlog » AFCCA Clarifies Expectation of Privacy... →
There’s no feeling in the world like having an appellate court tell you that you are right, that you’ve been right all along (about the Fourth Amendment). And yes, about urine.
This is my case.
The Nuremberg Scripts - NYTimes.com →
65 years ago today the judges rendered their verdict in the first of the Nuremburg Trials.
While I understand the technical legal differences, this cannot help but be juxtaposed against the recent killing of Anwar al-Awlaki.
September 2011
5 posts
Small Factories Take Root in Africa - WSJ.com →
Protect Our Right to Anonymity - NYTimes.com →
August 2011
5 posts
A speech by the late David Foster Wallace | Books... →
Something I never thought I'd ask my brother.
me: are you at a senior citizen home beauty pageant?
brother: Sure am :)
(via Pitchfork: TV)
Earth Had Two Moons, New Model Suggests →
Fun to think about.
July 2011
7 posts
4 tags
BBC News - The Office: A decade around the world →
It says something about what a great original series BBC’s The Office was to have sparked so many copies. While being utterly silly and focusing on the banal, it touched on something deep in what has become modern global culture.
The Young and Entrepreneurial Move to Downtown... →
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June 2011
9 posts
Ex-Rwanda minister jailed for life on genocide and... →
This one gives a bit more of the details; is a bit more accurate.
Rwandan woman is first ever convicted of genocide... →