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The rise and fall of quicksand. – By Daniel Engber – Slate Magazine Quicksand once offered filmmakers a simple recipe for excitement: A pool of water, thickened with oatmeal, sprinkled over the top with wine corks. It was, in its purest form, a plot device unburdened by character, motivation, or story: My god, we're sinking! [...]

White House Tapes | Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program | University of Virginia Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties–FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, and Nixon–secretly recorded on tape just under 5,000 hours of their meetings and telephone conversations. The Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program is a unique effort aimed at [...]

Corporate Hallucinations: Hey, Kevin Smith: Shut your fat ass up and fly United Enough already with this Kevin Smith slob. By now you’ve heard the story: Smith, who is really super fat and obnoxious and arrogant, was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight. He was kicked off because he was fat . . . but [...]