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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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Spiderman 3

By Matthew Yglesias

May 5 2007, 12:22 PM ET Comment

I normally find myself a relatively harsh judge of films, but I just can't bring myself to concur with the general tone of approbation I'm hearing about this movie. Hokey dialogue? Charming. Plot that doesn't really make sense?

Sandman

Well, it's a movie about a kid who got bit by a radioactive spider, thus granting him the ability to stick to things, a "spidey sense" to warn of him danger, and the "proportionate strength of a spider" and, meanwhile, by coincidence he just so happens to have developed a technological apparatus to help him shoot spider webs so, no, the part about a particle accelerator misshap turning Flint Marko into a sand monster doesn't make sense either.

UPDATE: By "approbation" up top I of course mean "disapprobation." Promises I may have made about cutting down on typos are no longer operative.

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