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Media Minutiae, How To Be A Better Equestrian Edition

To schmooze the impossible schmooze:WWD asks a string of magazine editors about their New Year's resolutions, which break down into "I'm very busy and important" and "pad thai is delicious." Kudos to Condé Nast Traveler EIC Klara Glowczewska on her lofty aspirations for 2006 ("Read a book a week, cook at least one great meal a week, finally organize my 400-plus photographs from the safari I took in Zambia last summer..."); after reading those, we're gonna need one of Jim Nelson's killer mojitos. Pad thai all around! Come on, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, you know you want it. [WWD]
Shooting Blanks: Aw, Page Six, you're reading us! Today they wonder about the identity of Malcolm Gladwell parody "Blank" author, the mysterious Noah Tall, and cite New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan who hazarded that it might be Harry Evans over a recent lunch at Michael's. Page Six wonders if Gladwell will think "Blank" is funny, but devoted Fishbowl readers already know that he found it "completely hilarious." But he doesn't know who Noah Tall is either. Who do you think Noah Tall is? Send your best guesses to Fishbowl Central and we'll tell you if you're right, unless you're actually right in which case we'll lie. [NYP]
Howard Kurtz: Liberal with the word "liberal" Over at FireDogLake, where they post like the bejeezus, Jane Hamsher points out how slippery the slope is from "outraged citizens" to "partisan liberals" when Howard Kurtz, writing on the NYT spying story, writes that "Some liberals, meanwhile, attacked the paper for holding the story for more than a year after earlier meetings with administration officials" and "Some liberals criticized The Post for withholding the location of the prisons at the administration's request" (emphasis Hamsher's). Labels can be dangerous, notes Hamsher: "And in one fell swoop the whole matter of illegal wiretaps is now reduced to a partisan squabble instead of a justifiable concern about government overreach, invasion of privacy and complete disregard for the Constitution. In other news, did you hear? THERE'S A WAR ON CHRISTMAS! [WaPo, FDL]