Sam N. Adams
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Four New Thanksgiving Traditions
Can you feel it? The leaves have turned, Yale has been publicly humiliated, and it is once again inappropriate to solicit candy from your neighbors. That’s right: it’s Thanksgiving! Lucky for you, Flyby’s got your back with some new traditions to spice up your holiday.
It Starts With a Drag: The Friendship of Frances A. Lebowitz and Frank Rich '71
You could call it a match made in heaven, if either of them believed in such a place. At her ...
Flyby Presents: A Presidential Debate Drinking Game
Arguments with empty chairs. Naked swims in the Sea of Galilee. Rick Santorum. This election season is liable to drive just about anyone to the bottle.
Major Realignment A-Brewin
Though the chance of this brewing realignment to affect the 2012 election may have passed, don’t be surprised if a party with the last name like Bloomberg or Huntsman or Petraeus starts to shake up the red and blue on a map sometime in the not-too-distant future.
Tsar’s Gambit
Putin is a cagy politician, and surely he has learned the lessons of the fallen Arab Spring dictators. Widespread violent repression leads to alienation and de-legitimization. Ignoring the opposition allows it to grow and reach critical mass.
Apocalypse Soon
It’s hard to deny that the Earth is going haywire in a big way. This year has been by far the most expensive with respect to natural disaster damage in history.
Europe: Too Big to Fail?
The Greeks brought democracy into this world, and it looks like they can help to take it out, too.
5 Percent > $52,650
Abolish tuition as we know it in favor of a garnishment of future wages
Nein, Nein, Nein
Pizza baron Herman Cain has somehow wedged his way into the top tier of the Republican primary field in the ...
World War 3.0
al-Awlaki’s danger came from his ability to bridge the gap between radical Islam and Western culture.