Julia #795:"One of the alt.fan.pratchett regulars has just posted to the relevant thread there, citing a relative's experience with one of the new drugs for Alzheimer's"
I actually kinda suspect he doesn't have Alzheimer's as such, but rather early-stage vascular dementia. Given his history of high blood pressure and heart surgery and the recent mini-strokes, it seems far more likely that he'd have vascular dementia than a 'rare form of alzheimers'.
That said, maybe he's calling it the latter because it sounds better than 'dementia'. Vascular dementia at least has the 'advantage' that the decline can be slowed or maybe even halted if you get the underlying vascular problems under control before too much damage is done.
Come on, Patrick, don't be so hard on them. They're probably still working through the science books from 1998.
"But the blogs he singles out include sites such as Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo, which regularly features original reporting of very high quality. "
And two others, Andrew Sullivan and Matt Yglesias, write blogs for the Atlantic right beside James Fallows, in addition to journalistic work for print and web and they even write books - which are only 'new media' if you prefer scrolls.
It's almost like the editor sneakily inserted those specifically to subvert the op/ed. (See above, re: ex-blogger, now LA Times asst. op/ed editor Matt Welch).
The last example, DailyKos, is a square peg because it's massive group site with contributions along the whole spectrum of quality. On the other hand, they have the ability to commit news themselves, through candidate appearances at YearlyKos, and by supporting candidates.
One gets the impression that A&R is run by people whose only knowledge of retail book sales is from 1980s airports, and that represents the model they are striving for.
Teresa wrote: "If you don't, the main thing that keeps you from seeing their failings is a painted-on layer of that lofty, turgid, word-from-Olympus monstrosity, the "encyclopedia style.""
Despite the fetish for that style, it's ironic that Wikipedians would exclude an great article like T.E. Lawrence's Britannica article on guerrila warfare, which addressed his use of the tactics in Arabia from a first-person POV.
Linkmeister - I take it you don't approve of Custom Creature Taxidermy?
PS: If anyone wants to make some baby scorpion earrings, I have about 15 plump white newborn Emperor Scorpion babies that I'm not sure what to do with. ('Sautee' keeps coming to mind.)
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