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Obama's current thoughts about the Mideast region

By artappraiser on Wed, 01/22/2014 - 7:41pm |

are on pages 11 through 15 of Dave Remnick's article in the Jan. 27 The New Yorker (free online access): Annals of the Presidency: Going the Distance; On and off the road with Barack Obama. The article is the result of a lengthy "embed" with the president and ranges over the problems, both domestic and foreign, of his so-called "annus horribilus."

Proof that Jay Carney et. al. rarely talks to the president but

By artappraiser on Thu, 12/05/2013 - 10:07pm |

just puts on a useless dog and pony show every day, riffing off of and babbling general talking points, or what his staff can find in books and on the internet if there are no applicable talking points:

White House corrects record, says Obama did live with uncle briefly in 1980s
By Aaron Blake and Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2013

Hello, it's me

By artappraiser on Tue, 10/29/2013 - 12:35am |

 

 

Excellent diagnosis, doc

By artappraiser on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 5:21pm |

In response to the New York Times' “The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill” (“Paying Till It Hurts” series, front page, June 2,)

Kenneth Prager, a professor of clinical medicine at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, wrote the following short Letter to the Editor, which was published June 3 along with several others:

More compare and contrast

By artappraiser on Wed, 04/10/2013 - 4:02am |

When nuns puked nails
by Josephine Livingstone, Prospect blog, April 5, 2013
{a review of Brian Levack’s new history of demonic possession in the Christian West, "The Devil Within" (Yale, £25)]

VS.

The D.S.M. and the Nature of Disease
by Gary Greenberg, Elements @ newyorker.com, April 9, 2013

China has had more school massacres by 'rampage killers' than the U.S.?

By artappraiser on Fri, 02/22/2013 - 3:10pm |

That's what this Wikipedia chart says:

List of rampage killers: School massacres

It's interactive, you can have the chart sort by any of the headings. If you click on "Country," it will sort alphabetically by country.

I count

21 incidents in China from  occurring 1995 through 2012

and

17 incidents in the U.S. occurring from 1927 (yes, that's 1927 ) through 2012.

Geezers rock!

By artappraiser on Mon, 11/26/2012 - 12:35pm |

Despite some engaging guest performances including the much-reported reunions with former bandmates Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor, the core quartet didn't hit top speed until the show's second half. When they did, they were untouchable.

-Paul Sexton @ Billboard.com, November 26, 2012

As Danny and The Juniors foretold in 1958:

 

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