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Open Thread: What Do You Eat in Your Media Diet?

April 27, 2011

I am really late to this, but The Atlantic has been posting peoples’ media diets for a while now.  My favorites are the people I’m most familiar with: Tyler Cowen, Anna Holmes, Terry Gross, Gary Shteyngart. I’m always interested in what people read and how they read it (which is probably evident by the Friday Links), so I thought it might be fun to share what/how we read stuff in the comments.  What really interests me about the media diet ...

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Big Changes

September 20, 2010

Dear Blog Readers, I love you.  You are the rain to my desert. I love you so much that I want you to get as much enjoyment as possible out of my blog.  And since D.C. provides low concentrations of my primary satire material-that is, Russian Jews (and really, there’s only so much I can mock Mr. B since he still peels my oranges for me,) we are moving (back) to Philadelphia.

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About the mainstream media

June 24, 2010

source. For Friday Links, for my posts on Jewlicious, and for my posts on Walrus,  I read dozens of news stories and blogs per day to stay current in the international news sphere, the Russiasphere, and the Jewesphere. This is why I am able to bring you pictures of ugly Obama rugs from Afghanistan.   Also, obviously, I have Nutella on Google Alerts. Anna Tarkov, fellow ex-Soviet Jew, but more importantly astute journalist, has profiled me in a cool series ...

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Book Review: Create Your Own Economy by Tyler Cowen

August 12, 2009

Full disclosure: Manuscript to review graciously provided to me by Dr. Tyler Cowen. I’ve really been struggling with writing this review.  The reason?  The book has gotten tons of positive press from the likes of Amazon, Matthew Yglesias, and Ben Casnocha.   The author of the book, Dr. Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics around my neck of the woods, George Mason University, has a fascinating and successful website, Marginal Revolution, which you should be reading if you’re not already.  ...

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Putin’s Pec Pics: HOTT

August 6, 2009

As you may know, Russian Dominant Overlord President Vladimir Putin(or as I like to call him, Koschey Bessmertniy,) recently went on vacation to Siberia.  Because, I guess, cheap airfare to Istanbul wasn’t available or something. While in Siberia, Putin participated in all sorts of manly activities, including horseback riding, swimming pretending to be Chuck Norris: Seriously.  Doesn’t he look like Koschey to you? My favorite picture comes courtesy of Nathan of Registan, who might have been experimenting with hallucinogenic elements ...

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