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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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The Voyage of the Mimi

By Matthew Yglesias

Jan 22 2007, 10:17 AM ET Comment

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Okay, time for an informal survey. How many people know what The Voyage of the Mimi -- the classic 1980s-vintage educational series starring a young Ben Affleck -- is? I and many acquaintances regard it as a critical Generation Y cultural landmark, like Thundercats or the Oregon Trail, but a frighteningly large number of people don't seem to know anything about it and think it's weird that I know the theme song.

We watched it in my school in, I think, fourth grade and while I'm not sure I recall any of the core whale-related knowledge it was seeking to impart, I'm fairly certain that to this day I understand the basic principles underlying the construction of a solar still to collect condensation and provide drinking water in case you're ever stranded in the wilderness.

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