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A Vote for Stephen Colbert is a Vote for the Enemy
Stephen Colbert is a brilliant and hilarious comedian. His work on The Colbert Report is a remarkably cutting counterpoint to right-wing TV hosts like O’Reilly. He manages to make them look ridiculous without ever confronting or attacking them. Instead he imitates their machismo self-confidence in a way that makes it clear no level-headed person could [...]
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Beijing Should Lose the Olympics
As the Games get closer, I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the IOC should bite the bullet and threaten to switch host cities. In fact, I think they should have begun to discuss this drastic and unprecedented action months ago when it first started to become clear that there were going to be major problems. This [...]
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When Secretaries Attack
Don’t get me wrong, I would never publicly complain about colleagues and certainly never bosses. However, there is one particularly Chinese experience with someone at my office that I think is fairly telling about the culture here. It’s actually 2 experiences, but they happened 27 minutes apart, so I’ll combine them. (editor’s note: this did [...]
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