Blinks: The Transition Team Edition

• Gore Vidal vs. David Dimbleby
  When I grow up, I want to be cantankerous.


• Goodbye, Mr Chips
  I did a lot of laughing in the days following Cringe, mostly at poetry. [...] even Siegfried Sassoon begins to read like a spotty fifteen-year-old with a Kate Bush duvet cover and a thirteen-centimetre thing. Be sure to read the comments.


• A tiny touch of Latvia in Barack Obama historic win
  Of course there had to be a Latvian connection.


• American Farmer
  It sometimes seems as if The Morning News staff sits in editorial meetings saying "what can we do next that Zan will love?" but, no, that's too solipsistic of me. Or is it, Morning News?


• Best of list season starts earlier and earlier
  Apparently, Starbucks have already broken out the holiday cups, too. Which makes me, in turn, break out in hives.

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