Chance that a page in Michele Bachmann’s memoir contains an exclamation point: 1 in 3(via Harper’s)
These are the keywords people have used in search engines that subsequently led them to my blog.
Do yrself a favor and look at number 13.
Read these!
My end-of-2011 best reads list:
1. “Hare’s Mask,” by Mark Slouka from Harper’s
2. “Years of My Birth,” by Louise Erdrich from New Yorker
3. “The Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” by Paul Ford from The Morning News
4. “The Republic of Curtis,” by Urban Waite from Massachusetts Review
5. “The Love Act,” by Chaz Reetz-Laiolo from Raritan
6. “The Kill Team,” by Mark Boal from Rolling Stone
7. “When Patents Attack,” from This American Life
8. “I Walked with a Zombie,” by Hamilton Morris from Harper’s
9. “The Other Place,” by Mary Gaitskill from New Yorker
10. Matt Taibbi. (Not a piece, I know, but all of his writing from Rolling Stone this past year has been outstanding and very important).
-Number of people deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the 2011 fiscal year: 396,906(via Harper’s)
-Rank of that number among the highest in the agency’s history: 1
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