Credit: Brad Gregg A July 29 Post article focused on Oklahoma’s conservatism “with an independent streak and a disdain for the strong arm of government,” noting that “the state cannot even get residents to comply with car insurance laws.” As the story noted, around a quarter of all Oklahoma drivers don’t carry car insurance, while […]
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Chug along
From The Byrds to The Band, country-inspired folk rock played a huge part in the path Last Train Home has taken since forming in 1997. So did Slayer and Megadeth. For seven years, bandleader Eric Brace was a Washington Post music columnist before quitting to focus on his burgeoning roots-rock outfit. The time he spent […]
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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
The loss was as unexpected as it was tragic. Shadid, born and raised here, was a true savant: a fluent speaker of Arabic whose ambition for storytelling heeded few warnings of danger. He caught a sniper’s bullet with his shoulder in the West Bank in 2002 and survived a well-publicized kidnapping in Libya last spring, […]
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‘A little bit unreal’
As a fellow reporter, Said al-Ghazali, struggled to help him, Shadid wrote later in the Columbia Journalism Review that his thoughts flew to his wife and daughter, and of how useless words are when facing what could be one’s final moment. “In the anarchy of emotions and impulses that ensued, I could only come up […]
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His cups runneth over
The horny-cups are the most expensive find in the history of the show, according to the Washington Post, beating out an 18th century Qianlong Jade collection. The cups’ owner, who understandably wished to remain anonymous, said, “I guess I won’t have to rely on Social Security anymore,” the Post reported. Well, at least somebody now […]
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Network / All the President’s Men
Both winners of multiple Academy Awards (but not Best Picture) for 1976, they now make their Blu-ray debut in packages more special than most. The Watergate scandal had such a cultural impact that when any new scandal arises, we immediately grant it with the “-gate” suffix. While that’s a testament to Bob Woodward and Carl […]