{"id":2066,"date":"2008-05-23T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2008-05-22T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T01:35:00","slug":"unrequired-reading-may-23-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-may-23-2008","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: May 23, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the Memorial Day Weekend! Here are some links to check out in between grilling dogz and burgz! Have a great holiday, American readers!<\/p>\n

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Seeing the LP for Who Are You<\/a> in a bargain bin in 1993 made me nostalgic for the proportions of album covers; Subtraction is nostalgic for the days when album covers weren’t design-heavy snooze-fests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Adam Weinstein writes about Christopher Hitchens’ literary criticism<\/a>, but still spends a while on his politics.<\/p>\n

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I enjoyed this piece by Pat Jordan on what’s wrong with sports journalism<\/a> in large part because of the nuts-and-bolts-iness of it.<\/p>\n

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Is this some sort of kangaroo court<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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My gosh, it’d be terrible if Obama won the presidency! We might see the dollar decline in value and government spending rise<\/a>! Y’know, as opposed to the fantastic condition the dollar’s in now, and the spending restraint we saw from the GOP when it controlled the White House and Congress from 2000 to 2006.<\/p>\n

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I’m getting ready to take this job<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What’s your breakup novel<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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