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Althouse: Pay attention.
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Dateline: 2013-05-18 6:46pm -07:00T (1 words)
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Althouse: "For months, the Tea Party cases sat on the desk of a lone specialist, who used 'political sounding' criteria — words like 'patriots,' 'we the people' — as a way to search efficiently..."
"... through the flood of applications for groups that might not quality for exemptions, according to the I.R.S. inspector general. 'Triage,' the agency’s acting chief described it."
The NYT looks into the "understaffed Cincinnati outpost" of the IRS...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 5:31pm -07:00T (71 words)
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Althouse: At the Magnolia Café...
... settle in for the evening....
Dateline: 2013-05-18 5:31pm -07:00T (6 words)
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Althouse: "Heh, great stuff, Althouse. Cf. Derrida on Nietzsche's umbrella."
Says Yashu, in the comments on "The word 'umbrella' appears exactly once in Obama's 'Dreams From My Father.'" And that was after I'd read rhhardin, commenting on "Sigmund Freud on the meaning of the umbrella": "Derrida in Spurs on the umbrella that Nietzs...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 3:16pm -07:00T (646 words)
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Althouse: People who live in the city are apparently so frazzled...
... that there need to be articles explaining the information that it's relaxing to take a walk in the park.
A walk in the park is a cliché that signifies an extremely easy activity. If you don't know a walk in the park is relaxing, how on earth do t...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 11:46am -07:00T (260 words)
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Althouse: Sigmund Freud on the meaning of the umbrella.
We've been talking about Obama and umbrellas this morning — here, here, and here — and, as noted, I bought the Kindle version of Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams" so I could search for "umbrella," which I remembered as a famous Freudian symbol.
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Dateline: 2013-05-18 10:31am -07:00T (352 words)
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Althouse: The word "umbrella" appears exactly once in Obama's "Dreams From My Father."
I'm searching the text, because I've been thinking, this morning, about the fascination with Obama's interaction with the Marine and the umbrella, and that set me looking into umbrellas as a famously Freudian symbol, and I was struck by the meaningfulness...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 9:16am -07:00T (726 words)
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Althouse: "It was a lighthearted moment in the midst of a grim few days for the White House..."
But Obama's comical stylings didn't play as well this week as they have in the past. I'm reading "Obama puts Marines on umbrella duty, irking conservatives" only because I'm interested in figuring out why it's #1 on the "most popular" list in the sidebar ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 8:01am -07:00T (590 words)
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Althouse: "I think he's crude, I think he's medieval, and I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me."
"I don't have the dreams that he discusses in his books. I don't see umbrellas in my dreams. Or balloons."
So said Vladimir Nabokov, in 1966, answering the question "Mr. Nabokov, would you tell us why it is that you detest Dr. Freud?" I'm reading this ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 8:01am -07:00T (318 words)
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Althouse: The NYT changes the headline that produced the dramatic Drudge link "They Knew."
As I blogged here yesterday, Drudge had this dramatic graphic depiction...
... linking to a NYT article with the headline: "Treasury Knew of I.R.S. Inquiry in 2012, Official Says." Key text on that point:
The inspector general... divulged that ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 6:46am -07:00T (223 words)
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Althouse: "Harvard law student hopes to buy a Segway after his $1M ‘Survivor’ win."
ABA Journal covers John Cochran's win:
He told the Hollywood Reporter he would like to spend some of the prize money on a Segway, a new apartment, investments and "a lot of wireless gizmos and stuff."
On the finale, Cochran said he would like to bec...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 6:46am -07:00T (181 words)
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Althouse: At the Evergreen Café...
... it's getting late, but please linger....
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:31pm -07:00T (7 words)
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Althouse: When the lawyer testifies against his client...
... and the client is O.J. Simpson.
[Yale] Galanter hesitated and spoke only after he paused, breathed deeply and was reminded that Simpson had waived attorney-client privilege.
"I'm very uncomfortable doing this," Galanter said. Via TalkLeft, who sa...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:16pm -07:00T (60 words)
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Althouse: "How Twitter Is Messing With Al-Qaeda's Careful PR Machine."
"Individual jihadis are increasingly taking to social media with their own opinions, sparking disputes within the terrorist organization."
It's a marketplace of ideas. As Justice Holmes famously said:
If you have no doubt of your premises or your po...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:16pm -07:00T (142 words)
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Althouse: "Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers."
Information the IRS demanded from the Coalition for Life of Iowa. Asked if that's an appropriate question to a 501(c)(3) applicant, IRS commissioner Steven Miller says he's pained at his inability to answer.
What an awful witness! (And I say that a...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:16pm -07:00T (53 words)
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