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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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Good Weekend

By Matthew Yglesias

Jan 21 2007, 1:18 PM ET Comment

What better way to follow up a Friday evening birthday celebration than by hosting a Saturday night birthday party for your roommates. Then you wake up the next day to one of the great sports Sundays of the year -- Sunday NBA on ABC premieres, followed by Conference Championship games.

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Nevertheless, the AFC championship is just hours away and I still don't know what to do. With Pat Riley "on leave" from the Miami Heat, the Colts and the Patriots are now the two most loathsome teams in professional sports. I desperately want them both to lose. If New England wins, we'll need to hear once again about how quarterback/superhuman Tom Brady "knows how to win the big games." If Indianapolis wins, the one strike against Peyton Manning's career will be lifted and his insufferable face will no doubt be smeared across my television screen even more frequently. I'm hoping for injuries. Many, many injuries.

UPDATE: Let me also note that watching a full week of NFC coverage focusing on how nice it would be for those nice football players from New Orleans to win after their city's gone through so much what with that flood and all has given me a powerful hatred for the Saints -- go Grossman go! The Bears just hit N.O. like a category six football storm: Woo!

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