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Times Magazine Best Blogs 2011

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Top 10 Lists - Listverse. Pushing Ahead of the Dame. Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science. The Basketball Jones. Justin Tinsley is a sportswriter who’s written for The Sports Fan Journal and The Smoking Section. 50 years ago this afternoon, perhaps America’s most recognizable speech and march took place in Washington, D.C.

The Basketball Jones

Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream Speech” may or may not have been his finest oratory ever — his impassioned, yet physically taxing “mountaintop” speech given the day before his assassination hits home with the same intensity and forward thinking — however, what happened in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, became the focal point of a battle for equality still, in many ways, being fought today.

Kill Screen. A Hamburger Today - America's Favorite Hamburger Weblog! Red Carpet Fashion Awards. MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com. Movies, TV & Viral Video Blog – Videogum. The Big Picture. By Ken Levine. Thetruthaboutcars. » The Everywhereist. This is my next... OkTrends. The Hairpin - Ladies First.

The Economy and the Economics of Everyday Life - Economix Blog. Get Rich Slowly - Personal Finance That Makes Cents. Catalog Living. Cool Hunting. Smitten kitchen. Weigel. Dana Stevens and I just recorded a Spoiler Special for The Unknown Known, Erroll Morris' long-awaited, critic-confounding documentary about Donald Rumsfeld.

Weigel

Off the clock, I went to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the latest blockbuster in the Marvel movie universe, and the one most likely to incite anger on Fox News followed by anger-at-the-anger on The Daily Show. It wasn't planned this way, but the two films went together like a white wine and fish pairing. The Unknown Known comes to the screen with heavier expectations, of course, and an aura of Importance. WFMU's Beware of the Blog. EDC.