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What do "stable," "critical," and other medical conditions mean?

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, killed 13 people and injured 30 yesterday at Fort Hood before a civilian policeman shot him four times. An Army spokesperson has announced that Hasan is in "stable" condition while of some of the ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, Slate,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Nidal Malik Hasan,  George Washington University

The Path and the slow video game movement.

"The Path is a Slow Game," its makers warn, and perhaps that should have scared me off, for I am a Slow Gamer. It's not merely that I'm dunderheaded. I'm also a plodding, open-mouthed, rose-smelling completionist. Games that others play through in five, ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, Slate,  26 May 2009

In Bloom

Last week, when the hard-core gamers of the world were supposed to be firing up the Lost and Damned, a new, downloadable episode of Grand Theft Auto IV, I instead decided to spend more than $400 for the privilege of playing a $10 game. I bought a ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, Voices | All Things Digital,  3 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Dow Jones,  Wall Street Journal

Flower is the only video game I've played that made me feel relaxed, peaceful, and happy.

Last week, when the hard-core gamers of the world were supposed to be firing up the Lost and Damned, a new, downloadable episode of Grand Theft Auto IV, I instead decided to spend more than $400 for the privilege of playing a $10 game. I bought a ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, Slate,  25 Feb 2009

The Opinionator: Crash Prevention

Central banks control interest rates by buying and selling securities on the open market. A logical extension of this idea is to pick an indexed basket of securities: one candidate in the US might be the S&P 500, and to control its price by buying and ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  31 Dec 2008
Related Topics: George Mason

The Opinionator: Wrong Year for the Right

Roy Edroso of The Village Voice spent the year reading conservative blogs so you don’t have to, and he’s compiled his 10 favorite stories from conservative blogs into a year-end Top 10. He sometimes stacks the deck – plenty of mainstream pundits, for ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  30 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Fred Thompson,  U.S. Republican Party,  John McCain,  U.S. Democratic Party

The Opinionator: Vacation Politics

“Bill Clinton, notoriously, polled his vacation spots. George Bush’s Crawford ranch is part of his carefully manicured image as a Westerner,” Smith writes. “But it’s hard to think of a good political reason to vacation in Hawaii, a blue state that most ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  29 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  White House

The Opinionator: Long Shots

The 59th Democratic Senator? Not quite a done deal, but it looks as if Al Franken is going to win. China seems to have blocked Internet access to the New York Times website. Anyone out there in China (not including Hong Kong or Macao) who is actually ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  20 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Al Franken

The Opinionator: Really High Hopes

drop this one already. it’s overwrought and provocative. the fact that a black said it doesn’t make it so. we don’t have unrealistically high hopes of obama — especially in this economy. and notice that none of us has claimed his cabinet appointments ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  17 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama

The Opinionator: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

Unfortunately, the Bushies have a history of treating everything as “terrorism.” Torturing the guy is much more Bush’s style. I read that wsj article. This ‘blog’ entry is just a poorly written synopsis of it. You get paid for this? Go get a ...

From CHRIS SUELLENTROP, The New York Times,  16 Dec 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  BBC,  Saddam Hussein

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