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Ben Yagoda

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Name: Ben Yagoda

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 2 reports

Comedian-In-Chief

Ben Yagoda applauds Obama’s executive wit at this year’s Correspondents’ Dinner:He’s got impressive comedy chops to start with: the poker face, the sense of the proper cadence of a line, the willingness to pause for a long beat while he looks off into ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 10 2013]

Entities: Ben Yagoda, Maureen Dowd, Dick Morris, Aaron Sorkin

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

John McCain

Word in the News: Red Line

Obama said it last August: Any use of chemical weapons by Syrian authorities in their ongoing civil war would be to cross a "red line"—and (presumably) invite American action.Reports that Syria has indeed used such weapons has brought Obama's remark back ... [Published National Geographic - May 07 2013]

Entities: Ben Yagoda, Battle of Balaclava, John McCain

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

The Weather Channel

Your weekend reading: Weather Channel interns under windy duress, Carl Sagan back from the dead to save us from terrible TV

The extent of human creativity/weirdness always baffles me, but I have to say the Internet really won my heart this week. Here are some staff picks of weird, beautiful, smart stories and videos from the interwebs this week. Today was the final day to ... [Published TED Blog - May 03 2013]

Entities: Carl Sagan, Duress, The Weather Channel

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

A man walked into a bar...

BEN YAGODA at Lingua Franca doesn't like the "historical present" : the tendency to use the present tense to describe past (and literary) events, as in this example from a radio interview about Lawrence Wright's book on Scientology : At some point ... [Published Johnson - The Economist - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Ben Yagoda, Scientology, Arabic, Alligator

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Writer Stephen Fried apologizes for inventing the word 'Fashionista'

Former Philly Mag editor Stephen Fried says he's sorry for inventing the word "Fashionista."email What's this? The person who invented the word "Fashionista" is from Philly?Stephen Fried, the former editor-in-chief of Philly Mag, says he's sorry for inventing ... [Published Philly.com - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Gia Carangi, Invention, Ben Yagoda

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

212 only

Mastrionotti: Fink. That's a Jewish name, isn't it?Barton: Yeah.Mastrionotti: Yeah, I didn't think this dump was restricted. AT THE Lingua Franca blog, Ben Yagoda describes a conversation Ruth Fraklin of the New Republic over anti-Semitic code language ... [Published Johnson - The Economist - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Ben Yagoda, Racism, Franca, Jim Crow

First reported Mar 23 2013 - Updated Mar 23 2013 - 1 reports

Patrick Ryan

A Contemporary In Cold Blood

In American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men , David McConnell chronicles six notorious killings committed by straight men against gays. In an interview with Patrick Ryan, McConnell rejects the term “gay panic” as a motive for the murders: ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 23 2013]

Entities: David McConnell, Patrick Ryan, Honor Killing, Gay, Ben Yagoda

First reported Dec 03 2012 - Updated Dec 03 2012 - 1 reports

The Weekend Wrap

This weekend on the Dish, Andrew analyzed the state of play as America approaches the fiscal cliff, provided reality checks on both climate change and legalizing marijuana , highlighted the British foreign secretary's thoughts on new Israeli ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Dec 03 2012]

Entities: Joanna Scott, Joan Acocella, Glenn Loury, Leszek Kołakowski

First reported Dec 01 2012 - Updated Dec 01 2012 - 1 reports

Reclaiming "Lady"

Ben Yagoda considers the resurgence of the word when used tongue-in-cheek to refer to "lady parts" or "lady politics": One definition in the OED says, "Originally: a woman of superior rank or standing in society; … In later use more generally: awoman." ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Dec 01 2012]

Entities: Feminism, Marilyn French, Ben Yagoda

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The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 11 2013]
Comedian-In-Chief [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 10 2013]
Comedian-In-Chief [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 10 2013]
Word in the News: Red Line [Published National Geographic - May 07 2013]
Your weekend reading: Weather Channel interns u... [Published TED Blog - May 03 2013]
A man walked into a bar... [Published Johnson - The Economist - Apr 25 2013]
212 only [Published Johnson - The Economist - Apr 19 2013]
Writer Stephen Fried apologizes for inventing t... [Published Philly.com - Apr 18 2013]
A Contemporary In Cold Blood [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 23 2013]
The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Dec 08 2012]
The Weekend Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Dec 03 2012]
Reclaiming "Lady" [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Dec 01 2012]

Blogs

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The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 11 2013] Friday on the Dish, Andrew further pondered the brutality surrounding the Gitmo hunger strike, challenged Leon Wieseltier’s moralizing on Syria, and separated out the scandal from the politicking in the Benghazi fiasco. He, weighed in on the ...
Comedian-In-Chief [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 10 2013] Ben Yagoda applauds Obama’s executive wit at this year’s Correspondents’ Dinner: He’s got impressive comedy chops to start with: the poker face, the sense of the proper cadence of a line, the willingness to pause for a long beat while he looks off ...
Your weekend reading: Weather Channel interns u... [Published TED Blog - May 03 2013] The extent of human creativity/weirdness always baffles me, but I have to say the Internet really won my heart this week. Here are some staff picks of weird, beautiful, smart stories and videos from the interwebs this week. Today was the final day to ...
A man walked into a bar... [Published Johnson - The Economist - Apr 25 2013] BEN YAGODA at Lingua Franca doesn't like the "historical present" : the tendency to use the present tense to describe past (and literary) events, as in this example from a radio interview about Lawrence Wright's book on Scientology : At some point ...
212 only [Published Johnson - The Economist - Apr 19 2013] Mastrionotti: Fink. That's a Jewish name, isn't it?Barton: Yeah.Mastrionotti: Yeah, I didn't think this dump was restricted. AT THE Lingua Franca blog, Ben Yagoda describes a conversation Ruth Fraklin of the New Republic over anti-Semitic code language ...