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Did Hillary Clinton run the worst campaign<\/a> since, um, John Kerry?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n I had no idea Ruth’s Chris originated in New Orleans<\/a>. I do know that they cheat by adding the butter late for that sizzling noise when they bring you your steak.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n No better headline this week than Gowanus, Where Irony Meets Hope<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n But Pimp My Prefab<\/a> comes close.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n This one’s<\/a> pretty good, too. (But combine it with this concept<\/a> and you have a-w-e-s-o-m-e.)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Dag. I thought Star Wars died<\/a> after The Phantom Menace<\/em>. (No, I never saw Send in the Clones or the last one.)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Frankly, I didn’t even know Australians could read<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Another beautiful photo discovered by Shorpy<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Dan Drezner has a neat post on trends in authoritarian capitalist states<\/a>, a concept I was interested in but didn’t have a name for until I saw an article in Foreign Affairs<\/em> on it last year by Azar Gat<\/a>, who has the coolest name in this week’s UR.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n New Jersey: a state of mind and\/or a state of ruin<\/a>. (And having too many independent newspapers in the state has led to a lack of coverage, Gov. Corzine<\/a>?)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Greater returns and less risk<\/a>! What the opposite of smart?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Michael Bierut on the new movie about Philippe Petit<\/a>? What’s not to love? 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I like Underworld and I like Amsterdam, so this seems like a good fit. * * * Robert Novak is optimistic about New Orleans' ability to support his agenda. * * * In October 2006, Times Picayune columnist Chris Rose documented his own post-Katrina collapse.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Amsterdam"","block_context":{"text":"Amsterdam","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/travel\/amsterdam"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1370,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/will-on-hill","url_meta":{"origin":2282,"position":1},"title":"Will on Hill","author":"Gil","date":"March 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"George Will on the, um, evitability of Hillary Clinton, boredom, and the bs of campaign finance reform: Bill Clinton has said, regarding presidential candidates, that Republicans like to fall in line and Democrats like to fall in love. 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For a while now, I've been marveling over the Clinton camp's contention\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (explicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/markpenn.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1792,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/running-down-that-hill","url_meta":{"origin":2282,"position":4},"title":"Running down that Hill","author":"Gil","date":"November 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I guess the Wall Street Journal has a vested interest in throwing Hillary Clinton through the Drew Friedmanizer like this: Note: I added a \"Drew Friedmanizer\" category to the site, so now you can check out all the posts with these wacky WSJ pictures.","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (explicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/hillcli.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":972,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/hot-ticket","url_meta":{"origin":2282,"position":5},"title":"Hot ticket","author":"Gil","date":"May 31, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an article from Forbes about the roots of corrupt behavior. It explores the matter via the parking tickets unpaid by UN diplomats in NYC: Scandinavian countries, which perennially rank among the least corrupt in the corruption index, had the fewest unpaid tickets [between 1998 and 2005]. 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