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I’m pretty sure that if John McCain’s son had written a book, it wouldn’t be called “dirty sexy” anything.
November 2009
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September 2009
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"Yoink", the larcenous interjection. →
July 2009
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Discography of Texas Punk 1977-1983 →
June 2009
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A FAMOUS PERSON HAS DIED.
The bow tie, in short, is the nose ring of the conservative.
– The Tied Man’s Burden - By Rob Walker - Slate Magazine
Jamaican ginger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
In 1930, large numbers of jake users began to lose the use of their hands and feet. Some victims could walk, but they had no control over the muscles which would normally have enabled them to point their toes upward. Therefore, they would raise their feet high with the toes flopping downward, which would touch the pavement first followed by their heels. The toe first, heel second pattern made a...
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Wikipedia, the... →
The ones that got away →
What makes someone walk out on their bandmates at the very height of their success?
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“My daughter was two days old and I was jumping on a flight.”
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“We were doing songs about Common People and it was, ‘Jarvis, Prada’s on the phone, they’ve got your outfit.’”
At some point, a potato-chip-like item is so different from a potato chip that...
– Editorial Observer - The Lord Justice Hath Ruled - Pringles Are Potato Chips - NYTimes.com
If you want to succeed as a conservative pundit in Washington, the key appears...
– Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: Bill Kristol: Pundit Superstar
Why does anyone listen to anything Kristol says? He has been wrong about...
– The Washington Monthly
May 2009
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Our culture has lost the ability to usefully disagree.
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Figures of Speech - Teach a Kid to Argue
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