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Walter Kirn

@walterkirn

Editor-at-Large @CountyHwy Co-host @AmericaWeek w/@mtaibbi Books: Blood Will Out, Up in the Air, Thumbsucker, Mission to America, etc

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FRIDAY: @BillMaher welcomes Ray Romano, Laura Coates and Walter Kirn for the Real Time season finale!

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FRIDAY: @BillMaher welcomes Ray Romano, @thelauracoates and @walterkirn for the Real Time season finale! Reply with a question for Bill & his guests and watch the conversation continue after the show on #RTOvertime.
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Harvard is like someone who stumbled into a ditch but instead of admitting it and climbing out of it decided to build a house there

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The trick, I guess, is to minimize the amount of data you generate. To lead a low-data life. Not sure how to do that, but it's clear now that everything will be abused, secretly if possible.

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Pharmacies share medical data with police without a warrant, inquiry finds | The Seattle Times seattletimes.com/nation-world/p…

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The difference btwn the WashPo ('Democracy Dies in Darkness') & County Highway ('America's Only Newspaper') is that we're BUILDING an e-archive (coming this spring for subscribers) because we're PROUD of our stuff

Go toward the light!

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CountyHighway.com

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This horseshit article fails to identify even one alleged changed political stance on my part . If they think defending speech, opposing war, or “questioning authority” means moving “rightward,” they may want to consider they’ve changed.

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For a second we thought this was going to profile all the democrats who have become the pro-genocidal, censorious, moralizing corporatists that used to only be associated with Republicans. Don't worry! It's only 200th article about Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi becoming 'right wing.'

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'Thriving,' 'diverse,' and 'safe'

Beware buzzwords

Beware especially trios of buzzwords

In Orwell this trio might be merged into one word: 'Thridisaf'

'That was a thridisaf speech you gave last night, comrade. Expect a larger tobacco ration next week!'

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Airplane cabins are microcosms of society. Each class busies itself with its own comfort and amusement and studiously ignores the one behind it. The class which has no others behind it struggles within itself for space and resources.

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Amen. Universities have been beneficiaries of enormous government contracts and grants promoting speech suppression, so pretty tough to take any of them seriously as martyrs for free expression.

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The bright idea now from the control class will be to make free speech indefensible by saturating the environment with offensive, outrageous stuff no one would dare defend

Watch it happen & cultivate Zen detachment. A dark sense of humor will help too

You don't have to play

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I don't know if copying a few paragraphs proves that a Phd thesis was plagiarized, but it does indicate that the author never expected anyone to read it.

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See you tonight on @gutfeldfox where I, as a proud Princeton alumnus, will make no attempt to defend the honor of Harvard

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In which I suggest that America institute a straight-on official state media channel so people don't have to hunt around trying to discern the orthodox line and risk falling into dangerous Wrongthink out of haste or sloppiness

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