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Somebody did a bang-up job on this new mural on Central Parkway between Race and Vine. More pics are here.
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Which is why I just found out that the beauty blog made the Sunday Times (London) Style magazine (for the second time since our launch in 2005). We’ve also been covered in Allure, Women’s Wear Daily, The New York Times, and the Sunday Telegraph (London) Stella magazine, but I really appreciate British coverage, as I […]
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Commentators on public affairs who mistake personal incredulity for a decisive challenge to science or history or literary scholarship commit a recognisable offence against the pursuit of truth.
-Oliver Kamm on conspiracy theorists
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Why does anyone believe a thing this woman says? My friend Robert challenges one of her more dopey assertions, that Orthodox Jewish women are subservient to their husbands.
How many times have I called up an Orthodox friend and had this conversation:
Me: Hey, wanna shoot some hoops?
Friend: Let me ask my wife.
A minute later he returns:
Friend: […]
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I have no problem with unions existing; freedom of association is an important right and one that should never be taken away from us. The problem I have is with unions always seeming to be on the wrong side of every damn issue. And so it goes with patent reform. Way not to break precedent, […]
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Vision 20/20, a mash-up of Windows Live Maps and sex offender records, lets you filter down to offenders within one mile of your home (US only).
Click the thumbnail for a larger screenshot of what the results look like - yes, mugshots and current address details are included.
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What a man. Consider what he does and what we take for granted. His wife might not be impressed, but I am.
JP says:
This story warmed the cockles of my heart, and made me realise yet again the true extent of disenfranchisement. It also made me continue to dream about the ways in which Web 2.0 […]
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Gretchen Rubin has a brief but quite illustrative example. It’s a difference that those who are trying to engineer our futures to their masterplans would do well to recognize…the jerks.
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One of my favorite sayings from the north of England (Lancashire, I believe):
There’s nowt as queer as folk, except thee and me, and even thou’s a bit strange.
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I feel slightly guilty when people compliment me on my cooking, as I am the laziest cook ever. And when I have a large group over, I do not want to be stuck in the kitchen while everyone else is talking. Plus, I refuse to run the oven on the day of a summer gathering. […]
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Exhibit A: On fag hags
Exhibit B: If you’re looking for love, this should make you feel better about your mission.
And I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but the sketches dealing with the New Deal Jobseekers’ Club are a pretty good indictment of the welfare state. To wit:
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I called 5chw4r7z last night to tell him the scuttlebutt I’d heard at dinner, from a muckety-muck at 3CDC (not Chad Munitz) via Gabe, our ever-faithful waiter at Palomino: Fountain Square will be totally finished in time for Oktoberfest (which is in, er, September). This may be common knowledge to you, but it wasn’t to […]
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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
-Ecclesiastes 9:11
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Meaningless words? Check. Empty gestures towards foreign countries? Check. Total lack of clue? Check. Utter failure to realize how stupid she sounds? Check.
To be fair, she does have much nicer hair than most politicos.
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