March 2011
16 posts
The Kill Team | Rolling Stone Politics →
Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a momentous decision: It was finally time to kill a haji.
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“What made Arrested Development a great show, rather than an...”
– Wax Banks on What Made Arrested Development Funny
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“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production...”
– Thomas Edison
‘Mars Needs Moms’ Flops, and Some Blame 3-D Prices... →
Natalie Tran: Bigger than free TV →
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“Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are...”
– ] Alan Blinder in “Hard Heads, Soft Hearts” via Crooked Timber, “A simple model of disagreement among economists”
The Crooked Timber article does a good job of deconstructing and critiquing this aphorism. Still, its neat.
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The Rolling Stone Interview: Stanley Kubrick in... →
Where were those scenes filmed? We worked from still photographs of Hue in 1968. And we found an area that had the same 1930s functionalist architecture. Now, not every bit of it was right, but some of the buildings were absolute carbon copies of the outer industrial areas of Hue.
Where was it? Here. Near London. It had been owned by British Gas, and it was scheduled to be demolished. So they...
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Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology : The... →
