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I understand more about international affairs courtesy of Joshua Keating, and Dear Prudence, previously Emily Yoffe, now Mallory Ortberg, has made me a better advice giver when people come to me with problems. I’ve learned more about weather and space from Phil Plait and Eric Holthaus than I did in school (I wasn’t the best science student, but they make me understand it). I don’t think it walks on water or can do no wrong, I’ll address some faults later, but generally I would say I read most of it and share a lot of what I read. So yes, this is a positive review of Slate. Granted, I got more “thank yous” than complaints, and I think I’m responsible for a small but meaningful fraction of Slate’s readership, but it feels good to not share so much, to have some control over my enthusiasm. I’ve calmed down, but it got to the point where I was sharing nearly everything published on Slate. It was also the beginning of Barack Obama’s presidency, which had me excited, so I shared Slate articles about that. After Christmas, I started sharing culture articles from Slate, mostly about movies.

Up to that point, I had only put up New York Times theatre reviews, something I have stopped doing since I’ve become a member of the New York theatre community, and I know people who might not want to see reviews of shows they are in posted on facebook. Joseph back in the picture.” Slate was running a number of quirky Christmas-themed articles (with the occasional nod to Jewish traditions of the season, and not always Chanukah), and I thought it would be fun to “decorate” my facebook wall with Christmas articles for the season. It started during the holiday season of 2008, with an article called “Putting St. And now, after three years about writing about everything I have read except this one thing, I will review .Īs most people reading this, who came to it by way of our facebook friendship, will know, I post a lot of stuff from Slate on facebook. I started reading the Timesonline on a regular basis my third year of college, as I got more and more into following the news, but soon my dad showed me an online-only publication he thought I would like very much. In college, they were available in the dorms for free, and I would take The New York Times up to my room on a regular basis, with the intent to read it, and end up with piles like my dad’s, but never to be read. I don’t like physical magazines or newspapers. I once subscribed to magazines ( Nickelodeon, Lego, Playbill), but not anymore.

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He gets them free from work, but some people pay for the daily paper, either on a daily basis or through a subscription. They don’t remain unread for long, there’s just not always time to go through them on the day they come out, but go through them he does, eventually, every one. Occasionally, there is also a pile in the adjacent room by the door, on the other side of the wall. My dad has a pile of unread issues of The New York Times near his chair in his living room.

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