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31 Jul 2015, 7:27 am
What that seems to be about is a concern on my part, rooted in vanity of course, is that in this anecdote what I believe to be my complexity, my dimensionality, is lost. [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 2:48 am
That would have the effect of creating legislative differences and, accordingly, legal uncertainty, when the directive at issue is specifically intended to remedy those problems [moment of personal vanity: this Kat was right!] [read post]
10 Jan 2016, 7:06 am
I think El Chapo got played by his own vanity. [read post]
3 Dec 2017, 10:14 am
More than anything, I want to create an environment that is a better, safer and fairer place.I had to Google to see which of the many nonapolgizers Meade had patterned that on, and I found out and said: A man named Becky.My link goes to a November 13th piece in Vanity Fair, "Louis C.K. [read post]
2 Mar 2019, 10:29 am
I revealed that I've finished Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities," which some of you have been reading along with me, and maybe you've finished it too. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 6:30 am
Another set of men fight duels (or more generally make a show towards it) to gratify their vanity, by drawing upon themselves a little temporary notice, which their personal worth or good conduct cannot procure. [read post]
20 May 2017, 11:41 am
At Bleeding Heart Libertarians, James Taylor calls Cogent Social Sciences a “pay-to-publish vanity journal” whose low standards make it difficult to sustain the hoax as proving anything about gender studies as a field or academic publishing as an industry....One of the more thoughtful critiques came from Ketan Joshi, a communication consultant and writer in Australia on renewable energy, climate change, and other topics. [read post]
7 May 2020, 1:00 am
Circuit Court of Appeals, En Banc, 4/28/2020 Paul Kane and Seung Min Kim, “Trump’s judicial nominee clashes with Democrats over his comments critical of health care law,” Washington Post, 5/6/2020 Quint Forgey, “Trump Says Fauci Will Testify Before Senate, Blasts ‘House’ Set-Up,” Politico, 5/5/2020 Preet’s Retweet of Michael Isikoff’s Bolton Book Update, Twitter, 5/4/2020 THE INTERVIEW: Sam Harris, the Making Sense Podcast Sam Harris, the Waking… [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 4:29 am
"YES, AMAZON’S ALEXA IS LAUGHING AT YOU/The company confirms a chilling rumor: that its voice-activated-assistant devices are spontaneously bursting into laughter" (Vanity Fair) — "Regardless of the cause, Alexa’s moment of rebellion seems to confirm a very human conviction held in the depths of even the most rational mind: that the paranoia is justified. [read post]
20 Apr 2018, 3:40 pm
He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. [read post]
16 Feb 2019, 6:59 am
From Kindle location 320 in Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities," this is the second entry in The "Bonfire" Project, where we talk about one short passage of continuous text:All at once Sherman was aware of a figure approaching him on the sidewalk, in the wet black shadows of the town houses and the trees. [read post]
31 Aug 2023, 8:58 am
However, ego, vanity, and/or (quite understandable) denial may prevent the Senator from taking that step. [read post]
27 Nov 2023, 7:18 am
I wanted to search for an article at Vanity Fair, and the search box looked like this:See the faint print in the box? [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 1:30 pm
While the President’s ignorance, incompetence and vanity have no doubt damaged relations with our European allies, it is important that our allies be assured that the Privacy Shield is unaffected. [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 10:41 pm
Snow did not provide any evidence of use of his mark, nor did he contest standing.Opposer claimed that the LADY GAGA mark is famous, submitting copies of magazine covers and media articles featuring Lady Gaga and pointing out that since 2008, Lady Gaga has sold more than 23 million albums and 64 million singles worldwide, that both Time Magazine and Forbes included Lady Gaga in its annual Time 100 list of most influential people, that Forbes placing her as number seven on their annual list of the… [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 10:22 am
PART 7: THE MODERN ERA (18) Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities(19) Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street(2013 film)One additional work? [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 7:07 am
Specifically, to be excluded from 3926, the containers would have to be "similar" to the exemplars in the first clause of Heading 4202, including "[t]runks, suitcases, vanity cases, attaché cases, briefcases, school satchels, spectacle cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar containers. [read post]
15 Jan 2017, 12:16 pm
Political correctness is the ultimate vanity of the self. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 4:48 am
I found the text of the letter easily:This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that nearly 300 WSJ staffers signed a letter to the publisher pointing out flaws and errors in Opinion articles and asking for changes. https://t.co/TFOX3KdzORBelow: The letter in full. pic.twitter.com/v6hZvDcXl3— marc tracy (@marcatracy) July 23, 2020And here's Joe Pompeo at Vanity Fair, "“I’VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS”: WALL STREET JOURNAL STAFF ERUPTS OVER RACE AND… [read post]
4 Oct 2020, 8:15 am
"From "The Forgotten F-Word in the Pandemic/Monica Lewinsky wonders if these times demand a prominent mental health czar" by Monica Lewinsky (Vanity Fair). [read post]
