December 2011
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“It would be heartening if some prominent Democrats, presidential candidates...”
– Timothy Lange (Meteor Blades), at Daily Kos
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“It reeks of a philosophy that ranks achieving “balance” as being more important...”
– Paul Krugman, on Politifact’s lie claiming the Democratic opposition to the Republican health care “plan” was itself a lie.
“In 2005, the homicide rate in the US was 5.6.
In 2005, the suicide rate in the...”
– Neven Mrgan: Murder stats
House Style
inky:
Wikipedia on The New Yorker’s house style:
When referring to other publications that include locations in their names, it uses italics only for the “non-location” portion of the name, such as the Los Angeles Times or the Chicago Tribune.
I’ve decided to try this out, so I’m italicising only the non-location portion of the New Yorker.
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“The attorney general will weigh in on the partisan debate over race and ballot access in a speech assessing new state laws that critics say restrict voting rights.”
— NY Times (possibly Charlie Savage, though it’s only in the home page blurb, so might not have been actually written by him*), Holder Speech to Criticize Restrictive Voting Laws
Dear Times, critics...
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“Think of it this way: if you opened the nicest looking store in the world that...”
– MG Siegler: Meet The New Sony Store, Same As The Old Sony Store
“This is not a matter of “converting” magazines and newspapers to HTML5. It’s...”
– Roger Black, The holy grail, Part 2
“That’s why I can say with confidence that rich people don’t create jobs, nor do...”
– Nick Hanauer, Raise Taxes on the Rich to Reward Job Creators
“That’s the whole secret, is if you hire great people and you don’t mess them up...”
– Woody Allen on directing actors (not a bad business philosophy in general if you ask me). (via lonelysandwich)