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June 15, 2009

David Letterman, Intentionalist [Dan Collins]

It’s being characterized as a “full-throated apology” that you can hear on the show tonight, so you can tell your grandkids about that time you heard Letterman apologize. Except that there’s no real articulation of what he did intend: “All right, here – I’ve been thinking about this situation with Governor Palin and her family now for about a week – it was a week ago tonight, and maybe you

Matronize This [Dan Collins]

Matronizing social worker rejoined, over and over. I expect to see a precipitous rise in such incidents in the Age of Obama. I guess it’s a couple of years old, but I found it deeply satisfying.

Obama’s Book Club [Dan Collins]

Now, apparently, to be a breathless new feature on NPR. For what it’s worth, Iranian users of Twitter indicate police attacking, firing on demonstrators in central Tehran.

DC Garage, with your host, Dave Burge [Dan Collins]

A sample: DAVE You’re the boss, Big Daddy! Let’s go down on the shop floor and see how the build team is making it happen. Bad Boy Brian Deese — let’s see you get to work and deconstruct this baby! BAD BOY Gladly! In “On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness,” Derrida introduces the notion of a sacred-profane postmodern industrial design linguistic synthesis through the lens of a hedgehog cowering before an oncoming