Reuben

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Name: Reuben Gann
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. An illuminating trip to the Microsoft store — 12/29/2013
  2. Netflix streaming continues to founder as dozens of prominent movies are taken down — 12/28/2013
  3. Saints Row IV is the most fun I've had playing a game — 11/19/2013
  4. Statisticians need to see how experimental science really works, then shut up about it — 11/13/2013
  5. Surface Pro 2: first impressions — 10/24/2013

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Feb 26 2009

Oh good, we decided to make Idol boring again

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The problem with absolutism is that eventually you have a tyrant, and he ruins all the fun. Simon Cowell may know what works in the music business these days, but he is making sure that the actual show from which his success actually comes is a boring, interminable rehash. Cowell, whom apparently people listen to, …

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Feb 17 2009

Danny Gokey's dead wife is a sickening prop

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Listen, the guy can sing, but Danny Gokey is really disgusting. Every interview he does he constantly mentions his late wife. What is the subtext of his singing "Hero"? He is a hero for having lived through his wife dying? For soldiering on and making a ton of dough because of his wife dying? Genuine …

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Feb 17 2009

The Wedding, The Honeymoon, and Oenophilia

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If there was one thing that Jessica and I wanted our wedding to have when we had it last month, it was class. Weddings often start out with treacly yet empty words, devolve into an interminable set of forced monologues and meaningless rites, and end up like a well-dressed frat party. We thought we would …

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Feb 10 2009

Can we get past "the New Deal failed" please?

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Politics

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Read this: The "FDR Failed" Myth Anyone still think a stimulus is a bad idea?

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Feb 05 2009

An open letter to Mary Bono Mack

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Politics

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Ms. Mack, The House Republicans' unanimous vote against the greatly needed stimulus bill proposed by the president is troubling. While your party is employing obstructionist tactics for the purpose of political posturing, we are hemorrhaging jobs. The state is unable to support the students at my institution (UC Riverside), and my wife's staff is all …

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