Re: [Marxism] NY Times outrage

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30:27 -0400 Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> No, I am not talking about their Middle East reporting. I am talking 
> 
> about the cost-cutting changes in the Sunday magazine section. It 
> starts 
> with a 9 percent reduction in the physical size of the pages. I 
> don't 
> really care about that. What I am really pissed off about is the 
> elimination of the second puzzle that regularly accompanies the 
> crossword puzzle, which is either an acrostic, a pun/anagram puzzle, 
> 
> etc. It has been replaced by something called KenKen, which is a 
> sudoku. 
>    I have absolutely no interest in figuring out how not to repeat a 
> 
> digit on a line. What a god-damned outrage. That's why we need a 
> revolution. To win peace and economic justice. And to provide double 
> 
> acrostics to the masses.
> 
>

Well, the NY Times has officially put the Boston Globe on the bloc,
so relief may be on the way, but once a paper goes sudoku, in my
experience, there is little hope.
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