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Excerpt #9
“Have you met the Killersteins? Absolutely lovely couple, quite charming. You’d really like them. Unfortunate last name though!” “Ha ha, yes. It does rather make them sound like murderers.” “What? Oh...
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If you feel you are in danger, then leave the danger zone.
If you see people walking into a store or a restaurant with openly-carried rifles and weapons, there is no way for you to ascertain what their intentions are. You can’t tell whether they are a “good...
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Stop it, brain.
There are two things which my brain is thoroughly convinced I am good at, in spite of the fact that I suck at them both and have never successfully done either in my life: Tap-dancing and juggling. But...
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Anti-bullying time
If we can pass a law that helps to prevent bullying in schools in Minnesota, we can pass a law that helps prevent bullying on the sidewalks in front of women’s health clinics. Because let me be very...
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Americans Learn To Stop Worrying And Love Torture « The Dish
Yeah, so THIS is disturbing. Americans Learn To Stop Worrying And Love Torture « The Dish. Apparently no one actually READ the report, and saw how completely ineffective torture was. And even if they...
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None so blind, and none so deaf
“Those who are trying to connect the murders of the officers with the thousands of articulate and peaceful protestors across America are being deliberately misleading in a cynical and selfish effort to...
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What makes a good data visualization?
A good data visualization is, in its essence, one that requires little or no explanation in order to understand. I’ve made this Venn diagram as part of my (proposed) TED talk to help you understand....
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Article 3
Greetings, Internet poster! Based on your tweet history, you have been recruited to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada!
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Relieved.
I’m relieved the Patriot Act’s NSA’s surveillance-slash-domestic spying provisions have expired. I’ve been holding in these farts for 14 years.
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THE INTERNET REDUX
[ Scene: doctor’s office ] “There you go, you got your measles shot! Who’s my brave little boy!” [ Internet commenter bursts in through door ] “BRAVE? MY UNCLE FOUGHT IN VIETNAM AND WAS SHOT FOUR TIMES...
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I have opinions and I am not a supermodel
I have been very uncomfortable with the speed at which some of my otherwise progressive and open-minded friends on FB, G+ or other social media have jumped into mocking Rowan County clerk Kim Davis for...
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Is it the Apocalypse yet?
Today, September 23rd, is the beginning of the apocalypse (in case you weren’t paying attention), according to some people who are so arrogant that (a) they believe the supreme deity of the universe is...
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The Birth of the Pill
Just finished “The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution” by Jonathan Eig Summary judgement: a capably-written book, oh so VERY dry and limp, but the subject...
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Same light, same windows
KY county clerk Kim Davis’ lawyers have announced (and the Vatican, when reached for comment, declared they would “neither confirm nor deny”) that Pope Francis met with her to offer her support in her...
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Our design game is STRONG
[ Interior, office, 2010. BIG BOSS MAN scowls, sitting at the head of the table, chomping on a cigar and staring at his employees. ] BIG BOSS MAN: OK, we’ve made all the mechanisms work in the exact...
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Brain hate
Here’s a mental exercise: try to ignore everything that has happened in the news this week and answer this hypothetical. List your top 20 situations that might justify a police officer yanking a...
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2016. End already.
David Bowie. Prince. George Michael. All gone in 2016. Completely aside from their musical contributions, I don’t think it’s possible to overestimate the impact all three of them had on society’s...
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I’m reviving this dead blog because people asked me to share this, so I will. If you read this, please consider paying your barista/pilates instructor/cleaning person/yoga guru/tattoo artist/service...
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It would be impossible to pass a no-smoking law for bars and restaurants today. The moment you tried there would be a thousand idiots in front of state capitols, smoking up a cancerous storm cloud...
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Imagine someone proposing to put up a statue today of Benedict Arnold with a simple plaque that said ONLY “Benedict Arnold, Commander of the American Legion in the Revolutionary War, placed in command...
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