Sunday's <em>NYT</em>: The Drive-by Edition

So this week-end we decided to go out and actually purchase the New York Times Sunday bonanza. Apparently it really has been a while since we invested our hard earned cash in newsprint as we were shocked to discover the current price for the Sunday edition is four dollars(!) is it really any wonder we choose to read it online? Anyway, after years of thinking of the Times as a bookmark on our favorites bar reading the paper version of the paper was an interesting experience one forgets that story placement matters! You know, sort of like the original version of linking. For example, the Chinatown bus piece that occupied the front page of the City Section along with two full pages inside obviously a very important cultural New York phenomenon worthy of part of our morning, and not, say, a link way down in the corner we click by on our way to the Style Section. Similarly, we actually had to look for MoDo (yes we are gluttons for punishment that way), though what a relief to be able to read an op-ed with out having the face of its writer stare smugly back at us. Also, unlike the homepage of the Times, which this week-end felt a bit like a two-day Hillary Clinton obituary jubilee, the print version managed to remember oil prices and children's health. What a revelation. Highlights from the weekend after the jump. Frank Rich is all about the numbers, also speaking in the first person is no longer acceptable anywhere: "All presidential candidates, Mr. Obama certainly included, are egomaniacs. But Washington's faith in hierarchical status adds a thick layer of pomposity to politicians who linger there too long. Mrs. Clinton referred to herself by the first-person pronoun 64 times in her speech, and Mr. McCain did so 60 times in his. Mr. Obama settled for 30." MoDo's take on feminism: If it's complicated you must be faking it. "I bet she is a very good actress indeed. Not only because, as first lady, she played the diverse roles of someone interested in China and someone interested in china. Not only because, as a presidential candidate, she morphed from Queen Elizabeth I to Norma Rae, as Newsweek put it. But because, through humiliation and pain, she has shown herself to be a skilled survivor. She said she embraces the old saying, "Fake it till you make it."" Dreams and desperation on the Chinatown Bus: It's more than just a cheap way to visit your boyfriend. Michelle Obama: Let the fashion analysis begin! The long, what went wrong, good-bye: An op-ed page round up."Few commentators allowed that she might be motivated by something as human as pride or as simple as unfounded optimism. And if she saw a conspiracy in their coverage, well, this time she may have been right." ANA MARIE COX, the Washington editor of Radar and the founding editor of Wonkette. Oh, and you may have heard, there is sex after marriage.

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Sunday's NYT: The Drive-by Edition

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