![]() Someone scratch my tummy?” … KFA 1:45 p.m. Little Red Schnooks: Kausfiles Special denizen Imhotep remarks that “I used to be a Maoist until I came here. James Traub’s “Confessions of a Chess Dad” can be found here. Positronicus, who is somewhat familiar with Memphis Oakhaven, agrees here. The team’s coach is the school’s math teacher. Which by the way does NOT have a stable of grandmasters. Prole, for one, is indignant that Slate couldn’t spare a single sentence for the team that won? The team from an inner city Memphis school. A couple of Fraysters criticize Traub for failing to mention the feel-good story of the tournament. What’s Worse? A Patzer or a Sheister?: Fellow chess dad rob_said_that cautions fellow parents that come tourney time, “you never want your kid to be playing the child of a New York lawyer.” His near-litigious nightmare is here. A slightly more studied look at the issue by Daniel Gross can be found in Moneybox. China will be crushed! America will rule forever!For more ravings from your Flight Captain, go here. ![]() citizens flush with new cash, and at the same time, the rush of new dollars will deflate the dollar-pegged yuan to levels not seen since 1930s Germany. and China (and Europe and Japan, they can come, too), this will leave U.S. Even better, because of the widely-disparate rates of airline-mile ownership between the U.S. This will have the initial salutary effect of taking huge airline debts off their books. AAdvantage Getting Slammed Against the Skymile: Yuan, Yuan, Yuan- CaptainRonVoyage, self-proclaimed “evil econ genius,” doesn’t understand why everyone’s so verklempt over the falling dollar when “the answer is ingeniously clever, and simple” because the real issue is “the world’s second-most-valuable circulated currency: airline miles”: The U.S., starting tomorrow, needs to start buying frequent-flyer miles. ![]() It doesn’t exactly a demand a Where’s Waldo effort to find it, but the review is essential reading even if you’re a Neo-partisan who’d like to contort Slate’s critic with a not-so-virtual vise. DeMille, I’m Ready for My Fluffer: Keith_M_Ellis gives David Edelstein a lifetime pass here, destor23 raves “that line can’t be topped,” and AT0MICPunk gushes, “killer copy” for Edelstein’s piece de resistance in his pan of The Matrix Reloaded.
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