civil forfeiture was v eye-opening for me, I had no idea that went on as horribly as all of that.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
Wow, that piece.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 August 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
Yeah. Deeply deeply disgusting. Seriously fuck the police.
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 8 August 2013 00:20 (ten years ago) link
I mean I just cannot get my head around the U.S. vs. One Gold Crucifix, I mean how is any of this remotely legal?
― quincie, Thursday, 8 August 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
Carl Agatha and Hurting need to get on this shit.
― quincie, Thursday, 8 August 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
everyone's right about the steubenville piece, it's a hell of a read.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 8 August 2013 01:47 (ten years ago) link
agreed
― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 August 2013 01:51 (ten years ago) link
That rape story - wow
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 8 August 2013 11:20 (ten years ago) link
The whole thing is crazy but the bit referencing the Boston Marathon bombing is a wacked lil diversion, people can be awful
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 8 August 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link
also like how it had a good old fashioned CNN facepalm moment, it really has it all
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 August 2013 15:11 (ten years ago) link
wow, civil forfeiture piece is outrageous
― k3vin k., Sunday, 11 August 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link
i'm sure wendy davis didn't mean for it to sound like this
"I was a nineteen year-old mom. But I wasn't a twenty year old mom, and I wasn't a twenty-two year old mom, because I had that clinic to help me plan my family."
― k3vin k., Sunday, 11 August 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
steubenville piece was amazing, at first i thought it was weird how they kept appealing to that goddard idiot as an authority but after a couple pages the real purpose of the piece - the misguidedness and downfalls of Anonymous-type/reddit internet vigilantism - and the fact that levy was just giving her enough rope became clear. (not that any of the non-victim characters in that story come out looking great.)
― k3vin k., Monday, 12 August 2013 01:21 (ten years ago) link
FSG book piece is cracking me up only one page in
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
Old school trustifarians
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
old but: http://www.theawl.com/2011/05/new-yorker-profanity
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/08/the-debate-over-intervention-in-syria.html?mobify=0
george packer v. george packer
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 13:12 (ten years ago) link
lol at thishttp://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/steiner.jpg
― YOU FOOLS PAY OVER $2.50 for a comic book (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
this paintings donation guy piece is blowing my mind. do museums just take anything any guy off the street gives them and hang it up?
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
That's what the article said, Einstein
― waterface, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
matt damons gonna direct a movie based on that grann article abt the guatemalan assassination breaking
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
xpost The piece claims museum basements are filled with fake stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
they should make a museum out of it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
BTW, the Japanese suicide monk was a beautiful piece. I loved the bit where a) he accepts and advertised low-level monk position and b) when after this hard-ass monastery ordeal, he gets a job flipping burgers and throws everyone off with his impossibly positive work attitude.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
anybody read the Sanneh piece on MSNBC?
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
yes
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
ya i liked the (anti) suicide monk
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
ive heard similar stories abt major tibetan buddhist lamas getting menial jobs in exile and being really happy and cool with it, partially cause their level of responsibility had diminished so much, lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link
YES. I think I suggested Tony Gilroy should do it.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
what did matt say?
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 30 August 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
so an article about sharks off the coast of massachusetts, called "cape fear"
― awake the snorting citizens (discreet), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 05:36 (ten years ago) link
The student, Fletcher Nightwine, quickly took out his earbuds.
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
which issue is suicide monk in?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 5 September 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/06/24/130624fa_fact_macfarquhar
― Shannon Leeedles (Leee), Thursday, 5 September 2013 06:09 (ten years ago) link
I like picking up an old issue and finding an article I missed.
The March 4 issue had been sitting on my kitchen table since it first arrived and I just picked it up on my way out the door the other day. It has a really wonderful story about the local Newtown, CT, newspaper's response/coverage to the school shooting. Everyone in the story (and town, really) come off as decent, civic-minded, good people ("decent" here probably doesn't read as I'd intend, but I can't come up with a better word right now) who are doing their best to keep a sense of normalcy in what sound/reads like the prototypical New England American town.
I have to look up more of Rachel Aviv's stories, because she did a fantastic job of setting the scene, introducing everyone, describing the town, etc. Had me in tears by the end.
Unfortunately, it's subscriber only, but check it out if you can:http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/04/130304fa_fact_aviv
― john. a resident of chicago., Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
civil forfeiture piece was crazy-- i expected it to be depressing but it was more enraging
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's p insane
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
the way that one sherrif was so convinced he was doing the right thing that he didn't even attempt to cover his own ass in a court deposition
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 5 September 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
just the idea of scores of lawsuits that are (county w/e) vs. (some physical object) is so nuts to me, sounds like a bad joke
― goole, Friday, 6 September 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
kelefeh on msnbc isnt really anything groundbreaking but its a good read
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 6 September 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Jill Lepore's brief essay/review of the new Woodrow Wilson bio is a tentative (re)assessment of a progressive sumbitch.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 September 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
Shark piece was good. I (like everyone) am so used to saying "great white shark" that it was jarring to read something that simply referred to them as "white sharks."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 September 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
the panda article has to be the first use of "electro-ejaculation" in the nyer
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 7 September 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
theres also a good letter ref'ing the civil forfeiture article abt knowledge of the law against structuring cash bank deposits to avoid the $10k notification requirment & a client of his who lost $100K from proceeds she had kept in her basement for years and then put in various accts from her job @ subway??
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 7 September 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
Didn't Nicholson Baker use the phrase in his article on LCD screens?
― dan selzer, Saturday, 7 September 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
hm u know it was prob in the paul haggis scientology article my bad
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 7 September 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
It's all over the place. They're gonna change it to "Electro-ejaculation of the Town" in the new year.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 7 September 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
So: Claire Danes. Should I read this?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 7 September 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
not sure she posts here haha
― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 September 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
ask jim franco
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 7 September 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link