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...rather, donkey, in the room for the entire campaign has finally reared its ugly head. Comics across America have quietly despaired. From The Onion to campus-based ventures like On Harvard Time or Satire V, those who derive their livelihood from poking fun at power quail when they ponder the next four years. “You have to wait for all the dust to settle and look for patterns and things to joke about,” said the head writer of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, when asked about his plans for making...
...China, are disappointingly familiar (denunciations of the destruction of old Beijing, lamentations over the supposedly materialistic nature of Chinese college students), but these are worth thumbing through for the sharp comparisons Aiyar makes between China and her own country. Interviews with Beijing's toilet cleaners prompt her to ponder their Indian counterparts. The former harbor entrepreneurial dreams and say they prefer toilets to farmwork; the latter endure a lifelong stigma as "untouchables." In China, Aiyar observes, the word servant "described a job that someone did rather than defining the essence of who they were...
...this era of shifting global power, it is impossible to visit "Byzantium 330-1453" and not ponder how empires expand and recede across centuries, leaving future generations to pick through their remains. There will come a time, no doubt, when people will stare in puzzled wonder at the silicon chip or the desktop icon. The Byzantines' efforts to hide their own fragility ultimately remind us never to forget...
...thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago.” Upon hearing about the interview, I was first struck by the question of what ever happened to Ben Affleck. After deciding that Reindeer Games was probably the cause of Affleck’s downfall, I then began to ponder about dinosaurs. To be an informed voter, do we really need to know about Sarah Palin’s opinion on dinosaurs?The beginning of the dinosaur question seems to be a viral email with preposterous fake quotes attributed to Sarah Palin that stated that “God made...
...skim through Paradise Lost before section and wonder whether we’ll ever be able to contribute significantly to the human race, we English concentrators pause to issue our own call to our Ec-favoring brethren. “Ponder your futures!” we cry. “Are you in it for the Rolexes and the squash club membership? Or does the homo economicus make your heart quiver with rapture? The time has come to choose! Given the state of the economy, you probably won’t be making six figures anyway. You might...