The Birth of the Queer T-Shirt
We were to have a new family photo, paid for and orchestrated by my brother as an anniversary gift to my parents. My siblings and I were all now more or less adult and this was to be the first family...
View ArticleHow John Lennon Buried His Mother in Song
Few events in John Lennon’s brief life were as traumatic and painful than the death of his mother, Julia, when he was 17. Although Julia had abandoned John to be brought up by her sister, Mimi, the...
View ArticleWhat I Saw at the Revolution
Bangkok’s smog is a choking shroud that swallows mornings whole. Depending on obliquely divined weather factors, the grim stuff randomly spreads or recedes. For the few mornings before The Shutdown—the...
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Today in Tabs: Because I could not stop for Tabs, they kindly stopped for me
Hello, I'm Paul Ford. Rusty Foster is on assignment. And now, your Tabs.TAB CLAIMS LIFE. Five days ago Grantland, a sporting-news sub-subsidiary of the Walt Disney Corporation (NYSE:DIS), published to...
View ArticleAs protests swell, Options limited for Ukraine's president
KIEV (Reuters) - At one end of Kiev's protest zone, just inside a makeshift barricade, demonstrators have set up a mock jail with an effigy of President Viktor Yanukovich sitting in a striped convict's...
View ArticleAs Protests Swell, Options Limited for Ukraine's President
KIEV (Reuters) - At one end of Kiev's protest zone, just inside a makeshift barricade, demonstrators have set up a mock jail with an effigy of President Viktor Yanukovich sitting in a striped convict's...
View ArticleThai Government Declares State Of Emergency As Protests Drag On
BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai government declared a 60-day state of emergency to start on Wednesday, saying it wanted to prevent any escalation of more than two months of protests aimed at forcing Prime...
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Today in Tabs: Mole Tabs in Space
Hello, I'm Paul Ford. Rusty Foster is tired. Here are your tabs.DEATH TAB II. In the wake of the fury vortex that "Dr. V's Magical Putter" created, Grantland published two responses. The first, by...
View ArticleAuthorities Identify Remains of Missing New York Teen
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Parts of a decomposed body found along the shore of New York City's East River were confirmed on Tuesday as belonging to a severely autistic teenager last seen in October wandering...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Why Rove Went Into Denial on Election Night
On Election Night 2012, Democrats had more than the reelection of President Obama to celebrate. Karl Rove, the mastermind Republican strategist hated and feared by Democrats, had a meltdown live on Fox...
View ArticleThe Price of Cheap Manufacturing: Chinese Pollution Makes Its Way to U.S.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Pollution from China travels in large quantities across the Pacific Ocean to the United States, a new study has found, making environmental and health problems unexpected side...
View ArticleThree Dead in Ukraine Protest Crackdown
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's prime minister said on Wednesday that anti-government protests had brought "terrorists" onto the streets of Kiev and pledged to punish all "criminal action", even as...
View ArticleObama’s Wish List Means Nada
Talking to plants or, for that matter, a comatose patient is said to be a good deed even if the quiescent don’t “hear” in the conventional meaning of the word. In a sense, that’s what will happen when...
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Today in Tabs: They Told Him Tabs Were Impossible to Hunt
Hello, I'm Paul Ford. Rusty Foster is recovering. My tenure here is now over and I thank you for your patience. Here are your tabs.TODAY IN WONKING. Ezra Klein, described by the New York Times as a top...
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Syria Rejects Authenticity of Graphic Photos Detailing Systematic Torture
Warning: This story contains graphic images BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria on Wednesday rejected a report purporting to show the systematic torture and killing of about 11,000 detainees, calling it an...
View ArticleChild Porn Victims Go to Court to Try to Make Collectors Pay
The abusive crime of child pornography is universally condemned. But is it fair that a few of these abusive images on a viewer's hard drive could cost them more than $3 million? That's the question...
View ArticleMiddlemarch grasped the human condition like few novels before or after
I don’t know if women can have it all, a question that has spawned innumerable “think pieces,” but they should surely have more than Dorothea Brooke, the heroine of George Eliot’s 1874 novel,...
View ArticleYankees Get a Future Star in Japanese Pitcher, but It Costs Them
The New York Yankees finally won something: the Masahiro Tanaka sweepstakes.The Yankees, who have not won a World Series since way back in 2009, outbid at least three other serious suitors --the Los...
View ArticleThe Funny-Money Man Behind McDonnell's Fall
In a ballroom at New York City’s Four Seasons hotel, a hectic swirl of politicians, contributors and hangers-on bustled about, smiling and glad-handing at another of the untold number of...
View ArticleFive Men Arrested Three Decades After 'Goodfellas' JFK Heist
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five men believed to be mobsters were taken into custody on Thursday on charges of murder and other crimes linked to an long-unsolved 1978 Lufthansa heist at New York's John F....
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