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Slate Magazine - Fraywatch - Oct 10, 2008
Kitty Burns Florey's attempt to diagram Sarah Palin's sentences was a hit this week. Even before Tina Fey's dead-on impersonations brought attention to the VP candidate's tortured linguistic style, language itself was …
Slate Magazine - Fraywatch - Oct 7, 2008
We love it when the post titles tell the story. The Swedish Academy speaks on why Americans don't win Nobel Prizes for literature, Adam Kirsh puts the case for homegrown fiction, and readers get to comment on all of …
Slate Magazine - Fraywatch - Sep 21, 2008
Economics and witchcraft: this is not a combination we'll be hoping for more of in the future. Tim Harford's "Undercover Economist" on the dangers of being a witch in a recession produced considerable unease and gloom …
Slate Magazine - Fraywatch - Sep 12, 2008
Yet again, I bring special qualifications to the week's Fraywatch subjects: I too was charmed by 100-year-old Diary geezer Leon Despres, and I too have a copy of Hotel Rwanda sitting unwatched near my TV. We were all …
Slate Magazine - Fraywatch - Sep 3, 2008
Many readers were shocked, shocked, by William Saletan's theoretical article about past candidates' daughters – "Pointless speculation" with a "sensational title" in a "so-called respectable publication" …
Slate Magazine - Fraywatch - Aug 15, 2008
Last week, Ron Rosenbaum published a call for greater journalistic coverage of scientific dissent on global warming. Journalists covering climate change find an overwhelming consensus among the scientific community …
Slate Magazine - Fraywatch - Aug 8, 2008
Is the landline telephone going the way of the dinosaur? Readers are surprisingly hung up on the possibility of its extinction, as forecast by Daniel Gross in this July 25 article that made a mysterious reappearance …
Slate Magazine - Fraywatch - Jul 30, 2008
A very welcome development this week, after the article in "Medical Examiner" on hospitals' E.R. problems produced a monster response from readers—more than 400 top-posts. The Fray team's job is to read as many of …
Slate Magazine - Fraywatch - Jul 22, 2008
Prized Fray regular wmccomninel watched Generation Kill, read the review in "Culturebox", and started a great thread which led to his laying this thought on the line: [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Fraywatch - Jul 18, 2008
Fray poster Expectator had a way to solve the whole New Yorker cover controversy: [more ...]