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...reveling in its characters' crudeness. NBC's Kath simply smugly insults them - for their clothes, their pop-culture obsessiveness, their eating at Applebee's. It's sneering and unwatchably badly written; it shoots at fish in a barrel and still manages to miss. On NBC's My Name Is Earl, by comparison, Jaime Pressley's Joy may be a moron, but she's an interesting one, with a kind of admirably feral greed. Blair's Kim is just a cartoon idiot. ("It's over!" she declares about her marriage. "O-V-U-R!") If you can't even make your...
...campaign before it’s too late. Hopefully this will focus on the ways in which exhaustion-inducing patterns are negatively impacting our daily lives, and moreover, how our wild behavior may someday squelch our dreams of achieving national political office (oh, wait, never mind). Perhaps in the name of involving campus leaders, the administration could additionally call on members of True Love Revolution, Harvard’s leading abstinence promoter, to enlighten fellow students about the dangers of premarital sex with respect to sleep-deprivation. Other solutions may be sought, but at the very least, something must...
...former Yale professor William Deresiewicz debate two undergraduates on the merits of “elite education.” The discussion panel, titled “The (dis)Advantages of an Elite Education,” was based on Deresiewicz’s controversial article of the same name, published in The American Scholar magazine, which focused on the flaws in liberal arts education in prestigious universities—what Deresiewicz called “Ivy retardation.” The two main disadvantages of elite education, Deresiewicz wrote in the article, are that it makes students incapable...
...campaign to reverse her slide tonight. A strong showing could convince women that she represents a historic opportunity to break the political glass ceiling. And expectations for her performance couldn't be much lower; after her unsteady performance in interviews with Katie Couric (including an apparent inability to name any Supreme Court cases other than Roe v. Wade that she disagreed with), Palin could go a long way to restoring her credibility with a strong showing in an unstructured format...
Paid particular attention when responding to challenges to Obama's record on taxes. Often jumped in to correct or clarify a point (although his familiar use of the moderator's first name may have raised the hackles of some observers - and the moderator herself). Was careful not to lose the upper hand when confronted with Palin's confident charisma...