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• Understanding Diversity: Alexander Hamilton Not Amused By 'Good' Criticism

  Published: August 14, 2007, 6:20 pm

  Tags: For Serious Now, Good Magazine, Self Righteous Anger, Start Counting Your Gays Blacks, Top, Understanding Diversity, We Get Letters

  Earlier today, we took note of the lack of women-type people on the masthead of Good magazine. But one reader thought we were barking up the wrong tree. His name is Alexander Hamilton. His letter, in...

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• Understanding Celebrities: To What Song Does Padma Lakshmi Work Out?

  Published: August 21, 2007, 4:40 pm

  Tags: Internecine Squabbling, Padma Lakshmi, Polls, Sex Violent, Understanding Celebrities, Who Will Stop The Rain

  From the mailbag: Just saw Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi at Boom Fitness on the Upper East Side. Wasn't sure it was her until I saw the scar. She was singing along with her iPod as she worked out. Very...

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• Wait, Armed Liberal Is Still Alive?

  Published: August 23, 2007, 2:47 am

  Tags: The Mustache Of Understanding, People Who Don T Understand The Basic Principles Of Free Speech, Bloggers You Forgot Even Existed Three Years Ago

  Marc Danzinger argues that Duncan Black is trying to gag...Tom Friedman. No, I'm serious. Why, one more "Wanker of the Day" award and Friedman's inexplicable presence on the nation's most valuable op-ed space, inexplicably best-selling books, all-too-explicable ubiquitous TV presence will vanish entirely! It's that kind of grasp on logic that

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• Man-Child With A Mustache

  Published: August 24, 2007, 4:04 pm

  Tags: The Mustache Of Understanding, Little Tommy Friedman Age 7, Wingnuttery

  The Editors replay some of Tom Friedman's greatest hits. Although being op-eds in an otherwise respectable paper the sentiments are at least not expressed entirely in 80's action movie chiches, "suck on this" captures the puerility of the "thoughts" much better. It's particularly amazing that Friedman, having supported a war that he concedes

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• Understanding Journalism: ABC "World News" anchor Charlie Gibson wasn't ...

  Published: August 27, 2007, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Also Which Anchor Needed Ratings Boost, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric, Rachel Sklar, Stephen Colbert, Understanding Journalism, You Can T Spell Authenticity Without T I T T Y

  ABC "World News" anchor Charlie Gibson wasn't interested in funning around with T.V. comedian Stephen Colbert and his fake campaign against "wrist violence," even though other big T.V. anchors did....

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• Fixed Interest Investing - Understanding Bonds

  Published: March 3, 2007, 11:18 pm

  Tags: Bonds, Bond Investing, Bond Rates, Corporate Bond, Government Bonds, Fixed Interest Investments, Government Bonds, Growth Bonds, Income Bonds, Investment Bonds, Term Bond, Understanding Bonds

  The term bond has in the past been the generic term for fixed interest stocks with security (the borrower is 'bound' to repay capital). Gilts are therefore bonds. However, in recent times the term 'bond' has also been used in the name of some equity based investments, for example investment bonds issued by insurance companies.

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• Letter From Baghdad

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:26 am

  Tags: Friedman Tom, Times Op Eds, Moustache Of Understanding, Baghdad, Times Select

  By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: September 5, 2007 BaghdadI saw many contradictory things on this visit to Iraq too many to declare a definitive trend. So let me share three scenes that had an impact on me:Scene 1: I went on a patrol that visited a U.S. Army platoon based in the Ameriya neighborhood of Baghdad, alongside the

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• What's Missing in Baghdad

  Published: September 9, 2007, 12:46 am

  Tags: Friedman Tom, Moustache Of Understanding, Lost Hid Freakin Mind Somewhere Between Beirut Jerusalem, Times Select

  By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: September 9, 2007 Erbil, IraqOne of the most troubling lessons of the Iraq invasion is just how empty the Arab dictatorships are. Once you break the palace, by ousting the dictator, the elevator goes straight to the mosque. There is nothing in between no civil society, no real labor unions, no

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• Iraq Through China's Lens

  Published: September 12, 2007, 1:01 am

  Tags: Friedman Tom, Times Op Eds, Moustache Of Understanding, Times Select

  By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: September 12, 2007 Dalian, ChinaIt's nice to be in a country where Iraq is never mentioned. It's just a little unnerving when that country is America's biggest geopolitical and economic rival these days: China.I heard China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, address an international conference here in

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• Leave Britney Spears Alone

  Published: September 11, 2007, 6:08 pm

  Tags: Rehab, Soap Box, Love, Rock Amp Amp Roll, Advantages Of Mutual Respect Fair Play, Undercurrent My Big Toe, What Category Why Do We Care, Pursuit Of Happiness, Britney Spears, Understanding, Truth, Rants, Music, Life, Humor, Peace, Musings, Politics

  Well I’ve seen her on the T.V. she’s over the hill I’ve heard them say She once was hot as a young schoolgirl ’til an audience came to cause her pain. . So leave Britney Spears alone leave lil’ Britney alone She’s not like you And me She’s a big star on MTV . You should’ve seen her back in

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• Yikes! discomblogulation…

  Published: September 8, 2007, 6:51 pm

  Tags: Soap Box, Love, Advantages Of Mutual Respect Fair Play, Pursuit Of Happiness, Undercurrent My Big Toe, What Category Why Do We Care, Understanding, Musings, Sports, Rants, Truth, Life, Football, Humor

  Oh crap! nothing profound to write about today. I don’t know if the world can handle it. It distresses the inventive genius in me when my thoughts grow stagnant and the creative juices ebb to the flow of sap on a maple tree. (hey, that rhymed! I may be on to something here!) You know, we bloggers (for the most part) are

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• just another day in paradox

  Published: September 6, 2007, 4:19 pm

  Tags: Soap Box, Understanding, Advantages Of Mutual Respect Fair Play, Pursuit Of Happiness, Undercurrent My Big Toe, What Category Why Do We Care, Peace, Musings, Truth, Rants, Life, Humor, Politics

  Do I contradict myself? very well then, I contradict myself. Walt Whitman . He’s a walkin’ contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction. Kris Kristofferson . You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. George Bush in 2005 . To tell the truth, I don’t know what the truth is. Me . Oh, I

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• Hey Jack Kerouac (10,000 Maniacs + one)

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:58 pm

  Tags: Advantages Of Mutual Respect Fair Play, Jack Kerouac, Soap Box, Pursuit Of Happiness, What Category Why Do We Care, Ten Thousand Maniacs, Undercurrent My Big Toe, Death, Love, Life, Rants, Music, Politics, Musings, Understanding, Peace

  Hey Jack Kerouac I think of your mother And all the tears she cried She would cry for none other Than her little boy lost in a little world that hated And that dared to drag him down Her little boy courageous . He chose his words from mouths of Babes got lost in the world The hip-flash slinging madmen Steaming cafe’ flirts They all spoke

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• My First Bicycle

  Published: August 29, 2007, 6:48 pm

  Tags: Death, Advantages Of Mutual Respect Fair Play, Love, Understanding, Life, Family

  We were so poor growing up that to me having any kind of toy was a luxury. I remember once I had been so desperate I even stole something from my cousin. It seemed he had so many toys and I had none. He would never miss the one I took. I justified it that way in my mind and felt I could sneak away with out the theft being noticed.

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• I’m Too Sexy For Southwest Airlines

  Published: September 13, 2007, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Soap Box, Southwest Airlines, Love, Advantages Of Mutual Respect Fair Play, Pursuit Of Happiness, Right Said Fred, Undercurrent My Big Toe, What Category Why Do We Care, Understanding, Peace, Truth, Rants, Music, Life, Humor, Musings, Sex, Politics

  I’m too sexy for skies above Too sexy for skies above The plane’s gonna leave me. . I’m too sexy for this plane Too sexy for this plane It’s driving them insane. . And I’m too sexy for Racine, Too sexy for Racine, Des Moines and Moline. . I’m too sexy for attendants Those sexy flight attendants Coffee, tea or

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