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Dead Tree Alert II: The Annotated John from Cincinnati

Sean, Butchie and John hit the beach. / HBO photo: John P. Johnson This week in TIME, I also review John from Cincinnati on HBO (scroll down). Bottom line: don’t get your hopes up. But even if this David Milch series doesn’t live up to Deadwood, it’s rich and intelligent enough that it isn’t really [...]

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Dead Tree Alert I: Bush Vs. Decency

My Culture Complex in the print TIME is a little redundant for readers of this blog, as it’s about the court decision overruling the FCC on “fleeting expletives,” which we already chewed over on Tuesday. My magazine column, though, focuses more on the irony of Bush and Cheney, who came to office on the shoulders [...]