Pajiba (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008 | US
Pajiba Love Mr. Boynton put it perfectly: "She's about ten light years ahead of every dumbass actress in Hollywood right now." So in light of today's release of The Dark Knight, here's an outstanding interview with Maggie Gyllenhaal. (The...
Ta-Nehisi Coates (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008 | Other
At this very moment, me and Kenyatta are debating New Yorker cover. She's a little more pissed than me--particularly about the Michelle Obama pic and the Afro. I think the problem is that it's very hard to satirize the rumors...
nicolaswebb.com (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Sam Coates, who writes some excellent pieces for ConservativeHome is moving on to join David Cameron's speech writing team. Judging by many of the articles Sam has been involved with on ConservativeHome he will bring a lot of good ideas to his new job.ConservativeHome are now advertising for a replacement. They are likely to be looking for someone with good political knowledge, who is able to
WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Ta-Nehisi Coates , journalist and author of The Beautiful Struggle and John McWhorter , senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discuss Jesse Jackson's comments that Barack Obama talks down to black audiences.
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008 | Politics
THAT NEW YORKER COVER....I blogged a few hours ago about Ryan Lizza's Obama piece in the current issue of the New Yorker, but at the time I hadn't seen the cover that went along with it. Now I have, because...
Sabernomics (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
That’s the question Dennis Coates (President of the North American Association of Sports Economists) asks over at The Sports Economist. There was less agreement on what sports economics is. One possibility was that sports economics was the study of those “sports” that were commercial, though I think there was unanimous agreement that such a definition [...]
Gavin's Gaily Gigest (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
According to Sam Coates of The Times, one Tory MP has adopted Alan Duncan’s phrase to refer to some of the Conservative Party’s more foaming-mouth members and their reaction to the Equalities Bill: Of the seven Tory backbenchers in the chamber, two were in favour - Paul Goodman and John Bercow and five - Philip Davies, [...]
Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Jaclyn DeSantis, Jorge-Luis Pallo and Francesco Quinn Square Off With Luke Perry and C. Thomas Howell, in 'A Gunfighter's Pledge' a Hallmark Channel Original Movie Premiering July 5 ...
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
The Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. Kevin Rudd is perhaps one of the first western leaders to be proficient in Mandarin Chinese having living in Beijing for a number of years when he worked at the Australian embassy. ???It is very important for our team on the eve of competition to have the prime minister present,??? said AOC President...
Political Waves (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
That Was The Week That Was … reflective of our changes; nothing on the wars, but plenty on the culture wars. I’m intrigued by the Pringles can — my son commented that he wouldn’t want to be the guy who invented the septic tank. In other news — seven years later, a dim little bulb [...]
Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Sorry boys, but you have it all wrong on 42 days I cannot understand how Tim Montgomerie and Sam Coates at Conservative Home have come to their decision, it’s beyond me. What liberal conscience that they possess must have rang in sick today. Now I know and understand that this is becoming an emotive issue for [...]
Eye on DNA (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
From Fermat’s Last Theorem (also titled as Fermat’s Enigma) by Simon Singh: “In mathematical terms the final proof is the equivalent of splitting the atom or finding the structure of DNA,” announced John Coates.
