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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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Playbook

By Matthew Yglesias

Oct 1 2006, 1:51 PM ET Comment

Bill Simmons has some doubts about Al Saunders' legendary playbook:

[A]llow me to be the 10,000th person to chime in on Al Saunders' 700-page playbook. I'd like to think that I'm a relatively smart person -- did well on my SATs once upon a time, haven't had a job where I had to shower before 10:30 a.m. in my entire life, feel like I'm reasonably well-read, and so on. With that said, the thought of memorizing a 700-page playbook gives me the shakes. I don't feel like I could do it. So how does someone like Clinton Portis or Chris Cooley pull it off? Wouldn't there be screw-ups all the time? We're forced to read 25 stories a day about Terrell Owens, but I'd love to read one explaining why it's a smart idea to have a 700-page playbook. Just one.


I've been assuming this "700 pages" business is some kind of bullshit for much that reason; either there is not 700 page playbook or else there's some kind of counting trick happening here.

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