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Nov 25

If Newspapers Were Stores, Would Visitors Be “Worthless” Then? -

h/t @jayrosen_nyu

The WashPost goes psychobabble in its analysis of Obama’s decision-making process. Everyone wants to critique his mind’s eye http://3.ly/pVc

NYT shows how you cover #hcr locally: Talk to people affected by the status quo and see how reform will help/hurt them. http://tr.im/FNvl

No one really knows what Rudy Giuliani’s plans are — and that’s just the way he likes it. http://tr.im/FNFH (via @newyorkobserver)

How a letter from 1964 shows what's wrong with the Senate today -

By @ezraklein

I deleted a tweet about James Dobson resigning; the story was old and looked fake. I apologize for being too quick on the RT trigger.

RT @felixsalmon: RT @ezraklein: Cannot handle how good David Leonhardt is at his job. Simply cannot handle it. http://bit.ly/50wWCR

@AllisonKilkenny: If Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn did Meet the Press

China might use wiretapping and eavesdropping measures to counter #corruption. http://tr.im/FMef

via www.cagle.com

via www.cagle.com

Food

nybooks:

Tony Judt

Immigrants’ table, Israel, 1958 (Erich Hartmann/Magnum Photos)

Just because you grow up on bad food, it does not follow that you lack nostalgia for it. My own gastronomic youth was firmly bounded by everything that was least inspiring in traditional English cuisine, alleviated with hints of Continental cosmopolitanism occasionally introduced by my father’s fading memories of a Belgian youth, and interspersed with weekly reminders of another heritage altogether: Sabbath evening dinners at the home of my East European Jewish grandparents.

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“Just because you grow up on bad food, it does not follow that you lack nostalgia for it.” AUTO-REBLOG.

Awesome. RT @Awl ‘In a properly functioning capitalist economy, rich people don’t ‘create jobs’ for workers….’ http://www.theawl.com/19697

A really amazing development in publishing explained by @Awl. The Future: When the Editors Hire the Publishers http://tr.im/FLJ1 #journalism

RT @anticorruption: Change of perspective on fighting corruption: The Michelin Guide to Corruption http://bit.ly/54XA6F

Obama will promise 17% drop in greenhouse gases at his #Copenhagen appearance. (via @Kate_Sheppard) #cop15 #climate #emissions #cleantech