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“Killing them all is the answer?”
“They’re terrorists!” Andrea says.
“They didn’t start out as terrorists!”
“They invented suicide bombing!”
—How the New Yorker destroys lives.
TL;DR. I'm just going to assume they're talking about the Scientology article.
Can we talk about how the Post looks like 1998 on-line?
Also, on-the-go Washingtonians who make a big showy point of reading the New Yorker while waiting for the D2 were already the worst people anyway and I don't particular care if they're torn limb from limb.
@Matt That would explain the Drudge sirens.
It simply doesn't get better than that second paragraph.
#whitegirlproblems
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Dan Kois, 2011: "… they appreciate the rare long view …."
WH Auden, 1946: "Thou shalt not live within thy means / Nor on plain water and raw greens. / If thou must choose / Between the chances, choose the odd; / Read The New Yorker, trust in God; / And take short views."
Can we still use the words "epic" and "takedown"? Because, if not, can "damning with faint lifestyle piece" enter the lexicon?
@Gef the Talking Mongoose – Agreed. When she referred to the "big, bold contemporary art pieces that the real estate agent would presumably ask her clients to remove for staging purposes," I paused and licked my finger in a silent "ooooh, burn!" moment.
The Washington Post is so deeply unprofitable and is now completely overshadowed by the Kaplan test-prep/for-profit education side of the house that it is schizophrenic and just plain "trying to hard to be hip."
There's not one paragraph of this that isn't a total delight.
"As with every book club, each participant speaks from her own context." Every book club, eh?
I once got beat up by a girl pretty bad at a book club meeting after I said, for whatever reason, that the female orgasm was "ephemeral." What I really meant was that the female orgasm was "ethereal." What really really meant was to not have downed two bottles of wine and start talking about female orgasms in a room full of ladies in the first place.
I think my theawl.com reading group will skip this piece. It doesn't really speak to me.
Gah. The Dutch invented suicide bombing. The Tamils just pulled a Reverse Elvis and took a white thing and gave it to brown people.