Recently readI have to admit that, as much as I hate politics, I quite like it when the politicians I despise are ripping one another to shreds. Antoine is much more charitable than I would be:
This is not “white guilt.” These are white people who have a visceral unease with ethnicity and who project this […]
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So: The poorest and AIDSiest place in the world can teach us how to end poverty and AIDS. Thanks, Starbucks!
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Oh. My. DOG.
You know, I’d just been thinking that perhaps I should wish hard for a Clinton presidency. After all, she’s such a poor diplomat and so damn divisive that, in the end, she probably wouldn’t be able to agree on many horrifically intrusive, citizen-hostile laws with any Congress. The less those tossers in Washington […]
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Jeff Nolan:
Amazon is including prepaid mailers with their shipments that can be used to recycle your old cell phones in support of the Cell Phones for Soldiers program. This organization, started by two teenagers in Mass with $21 of their own money, has since raised over $1 million and provided 400,000 prepaid calling cards to […]
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Carole Cadwalladr (that’s really how her surname is spelled!):
[W]hat’s changed most of all is that being snotty about Cheez Strings and Sunny Delight and, now, battery eggs, is not simply about despising the lifestyle choices of others; it’s become ideology, a moral and ethical belief system that to flaunt in any way will mark you […]
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I had a tutor training class today at The Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati for my volunteer gig. Their offices are located on what’s called West 7th Street. It’s not downtown (if it had been, I’d have been able to find it easily), but even further west. I wasn’t sure if I could walk there, […]
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Current issue of Cosmo
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In case you thought I was exaggerating…
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Two customer service stories from the last two days:
1) My friend Kelly went to Banana Republic and spent several hundred dollars on a new suit. The cashier threw it into a paper bag as if it were a t-shirt. What should have been an easy win for BR - putting it into a garment bag, […]
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You really have to know what a small, unassuming place Chillicothe is to appreciate how special I find this:
P. G. Wodehouse, the incomparable English humorist, in “Laughing Gas” (1936) recounts the experiences of 12-year-old movie star Joey Cooley, who was kept on a strict diet in Hollywood while dreaming all the while of the fried […]
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I’m DEVASTATED that Lolsecretz is shutting down. But wait, what’s this?
[W]e’ll be attending ROFLCon at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, on April 25-27, 2008. We’ll be speakers on the “Lolpanel” along with the creators of I Can Has Cheezburger, LolTrek, LolBible, and other LOLers…
My God, we live in a crazy, wonderful world. (Also, I so […]
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The voice, the body, the face…Yeesh. Her Tom Waits cover album comes out May 20, but here’s her cover of Summertime:
via my idol Michael K
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We used to pass copies around in junior high (ages 11 - 13). It’s a ridiculous publication, and I think we sensed that even then. (Same went for our textbooks. But Cosmo was full of sex, unlike our textbooks, so we always read it. Some of us took more notes from Cosmo than we did […]
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One of the 84 people I follow on Twitter is a teenager in Brooklyn. He was four years old when the Monica Lewinsky scandal was happening. And yet, tonight, he tweets this from a leadership conference he’s at:
Hotel bandwidth sucks more than Monica
I’m not saying he wouldn’t be referring to Monica if not for Bill […]
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In a world where taking personal responsibility for oneself is actively discouraged at every turn, is it any wonder that signs like this even need to exist? I can’t imagine my grandparents’ generation needing this kind of guidance.
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