FROM A CONCERNED FRIEND
“What’s the etiquette if a coworker ‘finger shoots’ you when passing in the hall? Do you politely laugh? Shoot back? Half-assedly clutch your side? Dramatically fall on the ground, gasp for air, and feign death?”
November 2010
13 posts
Charlie Wilson's Broads
“Wilson used his trips to the Afghan frontier in part to impress upon a succession of girlfriends how powerful he was.
The former Miss Northern Hemisphere, also known as Snowflake, recalled a trip to Peshawar: It was ‘just very, very exciting to be in that room with those men with their huge white teeth,’ and ‘it was very clandestine.’”
– Steve Coll, Ghost Wars.
“The marathon is akin to a “planned disaster,” said Chris Mercado, the director of health services for the American Red Cross in Greater New York. ” — New York Times
Million Dollar Idea
Michigan’s English department should be making a killing on Hemingway T-shirts.
Additionally, The Michigan Daily should have a Hemingway ventriloquist write about the football team:
It was a good victory. The season had been awful, but Saturday the boys played well. Hemingway made some extraordinary catches and the early November sun felt good and the wineskin we brought in the stadium made for a swell afternoon.
Carry on.
In Case I Get Hit by a Bus
“In 1952, the nation elected a previously nonpartisan but newly affiliated Republican named Dwight D. Eisenhower—the Supreme Allied Commander of the European campaign in World War II—who would today be reliably denounced as a Quisling by the purists in the party he so proudly led. ” – Todd Purdum on the midterm elections.
