30 Nov 2001, 12:54 p.m.

The end of this FAQ gives a lot away. …

The end of this FAQ gives a lot away.

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30 Nov 2001, 12:38 p.m.

Paul Conrad has won three Pulitzers. I weep for…

Paul Conrad has won three Pulitzers. I weep for journalism. You know, somehow Jim Borgman finds the time to draw Zits every day and draw political cartoons that are, unlike Conrad's work, reliably political cartoons …

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30 Nov 2001, 12:28 p.m.

Is this the all-time bizarrest Paul Conrad? Or this…

Is this the all-time bizarrest Paul Conrad? Or this one? Or yet another? This is just too fun.

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30 Nov 2001, 10:58 a.m.

I may have actually broken some unimportant anatomical item whilst…

I may have actually broken some unimportant anatomical item whilst laughing with Leonard over the oeuvre of Paul Conrad, the man who takes the editorial cartooning genre to new extra-dimensional extremes. Kris introduced us to …

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30 Nov 2001, 10:48 a.m.

Adam and I were writing papers at the same time: I…

Adam and I were writing papers at the same time: I think I'm getting delirious. Already. I'm making up sources that don't actually exist and then desperately trying to find them on Lexis-Nexis.

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30 Nov 2001, 10:16 a.m.

Argh, argh, argh. Scott Adams got me! I…

Argh, argh, argh. Scott Adams got me! I mocked the imperfect questioner and questioned the Socrates character, and now I find out that this Daily Cal reviewer got the point, and I didn't. Adams was, …

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29 Nov 2001, 16:01 p.m.

I finished my paper, it's done, I took a Russian…

I finished my paper, it's done, I took a Russian test that seemed quite easy (a trap! a trap, they screamed), I ate, I went to class, I heard riotously funny anecdotes, my professor told …

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29 Nov 2001, 9:06 a.m.

"Sex, Guns, and Cigarettes." That is possibly the least…

"Sex, Guns, and Cigarettes." That is possibly the least imaginative title I've ever devised for a paper. But I'm caffeinated and (it almost seems too obvious to say) low on sleep. Thanks, San Francisco, for …

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29 Nov 2001, 7:56 a.m.

There's this great photo in Bob Woodward's The Choice (his…

There's this great photo in Bob Woodward's The Choice (his book on the 1996 US presidential election). Colin Powell is speaking at some press conference with downcast eyes and, on the right, a woman, presumably …

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29 Nov 2001, 3:03 a.m.

Oh, wow, I forgot that 3am here is 6am on…

Oh, wow, I forgot that 3am here is 6am on the East Coast and therefore Morning Edition just came on. My back really hurts. Once I reach my seven-page goal, I'll reward myself with a …

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