The Memorial. "People talk a lot about the "healing process." Well, this is New York. In the aftermath of a tragedy of monumental proportions, the healing process has been noisy and rude, with elbows out, redolent of greed, power, and the darker forces that drive human existence. And most of the shouting has been about how to make a fitting monument to what happened here. But in a hundred years, all the shouting and all the politics will be forgotten. What will be remembered is what is built here, now, on these sixteen acres." [more inside]
posted by zarq
on Aug 19, 2011 -
37 comments
"I was intrigued by your recent expression of the interest in the 'actual weight' of the outlandish pumpkin head of the total A-hole, R. Limbaugh. By grand good chance, a friend of mine is a professor in bio-physics here at the university, and, with some sophisticated instruments, and his professorial savvy, he was able to take the measurements necessary for the
calculations directly off the video screen."
posted by Scoop
on Mar 3, 2011 -
37 comments
‘Don’t let up on ’em. Drive ’em off the road. Starve ’em to death. Pull their money out of their bank accounts.’ The colorful, on the lam Randy and Evi Quaid are interviewed and profiled at length in the newest
Vanity Fair and
Esquire magazines.
posted by item
on Dec 1, 2010 -
44 comments
Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican. In the twelve years since he resigned in defeat and disgrace, he has been carefully plotting his return to power. As 2012 approaches, he has raised as much money as all of his potential rivals combined and sits atop the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. But just who is Newton Leroy Gingrich, really? (SLEsquire)
posted by The Card Cheat
on Aug 10, 2010 -
95 comments
Meet the Man Who Could End Global Warming The miracle solution goes by different names: the sodium fast reactor, the integral fast reactor, the liquid-metal-cooled reactor. It burns nuclear waste, emits no CO2, and shuts itself down in an accident. We have enough fuel to power the whole world for tens of thousands of years. It will end global warming, and even if global warming is just another paranoid Armageddon fantasy, it will save us from the dying oceans and starvation and resource wars that are inevitable as the world's energy supply dwindles. It will unleash new industries and revitalize America's manufacturing industry.
posted by vronsky
on Dec 18, 2009 -
185 comments
An extraordinary piece of magazine writing by Chris Jones. Jones tells the story of how the body of Sergeant Joe Montgomery makes its way from a Baghdad suburb to its final resting place in a grave in Indiana. It's one of the finest pieces of journalism that I've read in years. It’s extremely moving without being saccharine or twee. It’s a military story, but utterly without jingoism or indictment. And it’s wonderfully observed. If I taught a first-year creative writing course, I'd make this required reading.
posted by dbarefoot
on Apr 30, 2008 -
87 comments
What I've Learned:
Al Green,
Alex Trebek,
Alyssa Milano,
Andy Grove,
Arianna Huffington,
Arny Freytag,
Arthur Miller,
Bill O'Reilly,
Billy Bob Thornton,
Bobby Bowden,
Burt Reynolds,
Carroll Shelby,
Charles Townes,
Christie Brinkley,
Christopher Reeve,
Clive Davis,
Conrad Dobler,
Curt Gowdy,
Dan Rather,
David Bowie,
David Brown,
Don Rickles,
Edward Teller,
Even Knievel,
Faye Dunaway,
Forest Whitaker,
Garry Shandling,
Gene Simmons,
Haley Joel Osment,
Heather Locklear,
Homer Simpson,
Hugh Hefner,
Hunter Clemons,
J. Craig Venter,
1=8991">Jack Bauer,
Jaime Pressly,
James Caan,
James Watson,
Jeff Bezos,
Jim Willett,
Jimmy Dean,
Joe Frazier,
John Kenneth Galbraith,
John McCain,
JR Simplot,
Julia Child,
Katie Couric,
Keith Richards,
Kirk Douglas,
Lou Reed,
Lucinda Williams,
Mark Burnett,
Mia Farrow,
Michael Wright,
Muhammad Ali,
Neil Young,
Ozzy Osbourne,
Pamela Anderson,
Peter O'Toole,
Phil Spector,
Philip Johnson,
Ray Charles,
Red Auerbach,
Richard Branson,
Richard Petty,
Rip Torn,
Robert Altman,
Robert DeNiro,
Robert Evans,
Rod Steiger,
Rodney Dangerfield,
Roseanne,
Roy Jones Jr.,
Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel,
Siegfried and Roy,
Suge Knight,
Tom Petty,
Tommy Franks,
Walter Cronkite. [Slightly More Inside]
posted by NotMyselfRightNow
on Jan 17, 2007 -
59 comments
In a long letter to Esquire magazine, the former head of Bush's Office of Faith-Based Programs blasts the White House as having practically no interest or expertise in making sound social policy: "[O]n social policy and related issues, the lack of even basic policy knowledge, and the only casual interest in knowing more, was somewhat breathtaking." DiIulio may have a bit of an ax to grind here, but it is still a fascinating look inside the Bush policy-making apparatus. (The letter was the basis for an article by Ron Suskind in Esquire which is not available online [
press release here]. The saga leading to the publication of the letter is recounted in today's
Tapped)
posted by boltman
on Dec 3, 2002 -
22 comments
Dear Madam Or Sir: Please Allow Esquire To Write That Difficult Letter For You. Has your company just been downsized? So what do you want to do? Tell them to go screw themselves or prepare to seriously kiss some butt? Go ahead and put
Esquire's Letter Generator to the test, then! Hell, maybe you just want to
resign altogether. [
Choose between triumphant mode and contrite mode]. Or perhaps you need to
apologize for some unforgivable mistake.[
Don't worry: you can make your letter grovelling or optimistic]. Or, hopefully, all you need is to write a simple, yet effective
love letter to your beloved [
Do you prefer something light-hearted or really mushy?]. Whatever your needs, it's fun and, at least to my mind, not entirely devoid of real
savoir-faire. A few corrections here and there and they could almost work in real life...[
One or two harmless pop-ups are part of the deal]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Jul 23, 2002 -
8 comments
Bill clinton hangs out with Esquire
The cover of the new Esquire had all the right-wing goofballs up in arms on Politically Incorrect tonight. Personally I don't see anything wrong with it, but then I am not want to spend $60 million looking for something dirty in everything the President does.
Where can I get this as a poster?
posted by DragonBoy
on Oct 31, 2000 -
33 comments
