New Yorker magazine alert thread

had so many problems with gopnik's prison essay

let's hear em. i thought it was well voiced and interesting but yes, problematic.

mostly your standard civil libertarian objections, particularly how he apologized for stop-and-frisk as a necessary way to "collect fingerprints" of young people in minority communities. i'm not familiar with zimring's research tbh

yeah that was the big ?
Like we should do stopandfrisk but "less invasively" and that's the answer? He doesn't quite explain what a less invasive form of s&f would be as i recall.

wouldn't mind stop and frisk if performed by Clarence Thomas.

excuse me young man could you tell me is this a pube on my coke

Did anyone mention the article on Madagascar's plowshare tortoises (sub)? Beginning is hott, very much something you Grann stans would appreciate imho.

some good stuff in the new one, mainly the ones about the arms smuggler and the one about altruism in evolutionary biology. shouts and murmurs was kind of amusing again. thought the davos piece would be good but it was fairly boring, which i guess was kind of the point?

Alice Munro!

i have next week off! *rubs hands*

Doggies (sub req'd)!!!

^^

the davos piece would be good but it was fairly boring, which i guess was kind of the point

otm, but i thought that just how boring the davos attendees and event seemed was revealing in a perverse way. "drink up shriners!"

christian marclay profile in the new one is good

The Alice Munro story last week was good - it captured well that pre-feminism, passive-aggressive marriage dynamic of my grandparents' generation.

shouts and murmurs was kind of amusing again.

Yes. I looked up the author -- he's a writer for Colbert.

Looking forward to the Marclay profile -- I don't usually get the magazine until Wed.

best thing this week was the piece about lawrence v. texas and the supreme court overturning anti-sodomy laws. shouts and murmurs (by jack handey) was once again pretty good! are my humor tastes getting more middlebrow?

naw its just jack handy is an genius

When do y'all usually receive it? I don't get mine until Friday or Saturday.

kindle version -> monday morning

i guess ipad comes on monday too tho i never really thought abt it i just open it up and sometimes its there

same here alfred

ipad version seems to come out monday midnight (nyc time)

It's a couple of issues old, but I liked the police dog story. Still, it seemed incomplete. I really wanted them to address the grieving process when dogs are killed in action, given all the allusions to dogs dying throughout the piece.

Yeah, I was waiting for the same thing actually, seemed like it was going to address that at some point but then it just tailed off after the visit to one of the competitions.

also it did a really poor job delineating the diferences between the new school and old school dog training approaches

'tailed off' ha

Well, fwiw, I think the author spent too much time barking up the wrong tree. He could've really made his mark by following up on the grieving process. I bet some of those guys wept like fire hydrants. Oh well, he'll have a new tale to wag another day.

also, he's a dog.

Really going to just shake me off like that, eh?

yeah look i didn't get to the end of your shaggy dog story so

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bx3EqoG7ptE/TngvhxPlXBI/AAAAAAAADSc/XODadeLjPdA/s400/spiegelman_open_me_im_a_dog.jpg

is that book anthropomorphically about genocide y/n

best thing this week was the piece about lawrence v. texas and the supreme court overturning anti-sodomy laws

yeah this was the first thing i read in the new issue and its outstanding

It's a couple of issues old, but I liked the police dog story. Still, it seemed incomplete. I really wanted them to address the grieving process when dogs are killed in action, given all the allusions to dogs dying throughout the piece.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I was waiting for the same thing actually, seemed like it was going to address that at some point but then it just tailed off after the visit to one of the competitions.

― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:34 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also it did a really poor job delineating the diferences between the new school and old school dog training approaches

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 1:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

All of you otm, except lagoon (it sort of implies a mix of the negative reinforcement with the positive, no?). The article really emphasizes the police-dog-as-tool, which makes the end kind of poignant.

lol if it did a good job of explaining that stuff why r u all uh it sort of implied this vague thing i dont really understand right

lol I am just busting ur chops my man.

gdamn it negative renforcement

Doh!

wow, talk about breaking house style:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/03/watching-kony.html

Whatever motivated the makers of the video—and since it was posted there have been questions about the actual effectiveness and philosophy of the non-profit group that produced it—Kony is a monster who should have been shot in a vacant lot years ago.

nyer gone internet

at first I thought you were saying they had spelled coöperate like 'cooperate'

damn nyer is thugz

finally read the tyler clementi piece. really remarkable reporting imo, admirably even-handed given the subject at hand.

i don't think my 2/13-2/20 issue was delivered?? >:(

you mean this week's? I haven't gotten it.

no the double issue 3 weeks ago, the one with the face transplant article and the plagiarism article, i think. (i finally have some free time and am working my way through about a month's worth of issues)

Wife, daughter, who knows where to draw the line in a family like Santorum's or Lot's?

Find the correct thread and win 57 dollars.

no the double issue 3 weeks ago, the one with the face transplant article and the plagiarism article, i think. (i finally have some free time and am working my way through about a month's worth of issues)

― been to lots of college and twitter (k3vin k.), Sunday, 11 March 2012 03:41 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my mailman is getting learned sitting on my pile of recent nyers. i got the double & have missed a couple either side of it. face transplant article good. i can't remember whether i mentioned it, but yeti publishing becomes relevant in the plagiarism piece, interestingly.

the article on rich people avoiding taxes this week was kind of fascinating in a very mundane way ... and thomas puccio, the lawyer who is a central figure in the article, just died on monday
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/nyregion/thomas-puccio-lawyer-who-had-notorious-clients-dies-at-67.html?_r=1