On San Francisco Mission Residents Dumbfounded By Local Predator
Did it work? Are they all gone yet?
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On Are Women The New Problem Drinkers, Because They Are Lady Binge-Drinkers?
$75,000/year = wealthy
$250,000/year = middle class
$10,000,000/year = qualified for (corporate) welfare
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On Oh Look, An Actual Piece of Informative Political Reporting
YES. This is also why the first debate was so damaging at the time...
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On How to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Getting to read one of these "handy guides" things on a friday afternoon can almost, just for a little while, make you forget all about how shitty the rest of the week has been. So thanks!
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On Higgs Boson and the Great Scam of Modern Physics
"...while several of the tangled bedsheets making up our reality behaved in some respects like a very thin lightweight fabric—gossamer, say—the wrinkles produced in them by our flicking were much shallower than they should have been, as if the sheets were actually made of something heavier...there might be a blanket, causing the sheets not to dent so deeply when we flicked them."
Well, The Third Policeman makes a lot more sense now. Thanks Science!
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On Jennifer Egan, Saboteur?
Is it "luddite-chic" to not know the difference between an android and a cyborg?
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On Today's The Day You Skip Out Of Work To Have A Drink
Chiming in late from San Francisco - observed this great holiday with two good friends who also work in the area. One beer, one shot, ended up being gone about an hour but nobody seems to have noticed or cared because it is one of those kinds of jobs. My mood has improved considerably, enough to make me wish I could do this all the time, except I know I would slide down that slippery slope quicker than greased lightning...
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On The CDs You'll Never Be Able To Get Rid Of
It's been a few years since I stopped working at record stores, but I always thought the most sold-back CD of all time - with the largest pile stored in the back room - was Monster by REM.
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On A Brief, Opinionated History of Taxes in America
@oneinthehand Did this comment time-travel here from 2005?