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Introducing The Full Stop Commenter Hall of Fame

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Ah, the gilded hall of the Full Stop Commenter Hall of Fame, located in the basement of the YMCA in fun-loving Plattsburgh, NY.

RIP MCA

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Pour out some Brass Monkey for one of the greats.

More Found Literary Love Letters from Political Figures

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After the stir over the release of Barack Obama’s letter on “The Wasteland” to his college girlfriend, the timing seemed right to dig into the epistolary archives of other contemporary political figures.

August: Hillsborough County

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American politics have always been contentious, are usually vitriolic, and not uncommonly peppered with the rhetoric of (metaphorical) violence.

Full Stop Interview in Paperback Edition of The Art of Fielding

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Full Stop Editor-in-Chief Alex Shephard’s interview with Art of Fielding author Chad Harbach (which we published in September) has been included with the paperback release of the book.

Occupy: May Day

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Follow Full Stop all day for updates on the May Day General Strike.

Knope’s Republic

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If Parks and Recreation is positioning itself as a kind of parable for national politics, its clear distinction between the parameters of corporate and public power, so blurred in today’s laws and practices, makes it painfully obvious that much of what we consider commonplace in today’s political scene is not just morally unsound, but truly anti-republican and anti-democratic.

Announcing the Full Stop Tumblr

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Full Stop is very happy to announce our new Tumblr.

The Raven: Box Office Authors

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When I heard that John Cusack would be playing Edgar Allen Poe tracking down a serial killer, my first thought was: man, the Party Down writers were prescient.

An Apology for Facebook

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Sherry Turkle is right: people used to be able to tell the truth without resorting to technology — they used alcohol.