On Is Ryan Harrison the One American Tennis Player We Can Believe In?
Squee! I've been waiting to get disappointed by another American tennis player for about 5 years now. This is the first I've heard of Ryan, my hard core tennis spectator days are in a slump currently, but let's hope he's got more than one good stroke in his arsenal [ie: not just a wack 150 mph serve) and doesn't choke at the drop of a hat.
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On When Your Friend Is Also Your Boss: A Cautionary Tale
@deepomega In my freelance experience (and a few restaurants) I've learned that I can be a come in late, literally everyday, but it doesn't matter cause I'm the best office bitch/entry level assistant they have. Granted, freelancers are not really apart of the office and your attachment to the business is tenuous but this has been my MO ever since grammar school so I'm guessing it applies at most places.
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On What To Do With The Cabbage That Comes With Shanghai Soup Dumplings
Thanks for the head's up Dave! It's probably a good thing that I view getting soup dumplings as a chore. Going to Joe Shanghai is a bitch (the wait always takes forever and their entrees are not cheap) so that I don't gain 20 lbs but I'll be hitting this place up tomorrow for sure. Also, M Shanghai off the Lorimer stop has great soup dumplings as well!
I always /want/ to eat the cabbage at the bottom, but rarely do cause I don't want to look like a gluttonous fat ass. Your courage to eat even the food decoration is inspiring.
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On A Short Story from the County Board Meeting in Arlington, VA
@NeonTrotsky I was considering going back to NoVa to work on the 2012 campaign, but I don't think I could take another Republican defense contractor yell at me about "government spending!" in that hot ass summer weather.
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On 'The Thing' Is A Replicant Sent To Suck All Joy From Monster Movies
@Gef the Talking Mongoose There isn't a movie that exists which I have recommended more than this one, especially after I saw the trailer for this wack remake. Ugh, couldn't they just re-release it and make it 3D like the Lion King?
And yes, it's re-watchability is remarkable.
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On How To Be Tolerant
Even the softest republican is anti-choice and I am intolerant of that position. I'm not talking about your Cray Crays like Sarah Palin, but your "nice midwestern white ladies" that believe that womens' wombs were touched by jay-sus and you cain't muss with Gawd's Will! Puh-leeze! They don't care about interfering with God's plan when they get cancer do they and they don't care that they treat their bodies like space age garbage disposals, eating every god-damn transfat man has invented.
They talk about freedom and liberty, but somehow THEY have assumed responsibility for my uterus. THEY want to tell ME what I can and can't do with it. My body is a not fully sovereign after all? Seriously, judge me all you want. Call me a slut, dirty, "unworthy of heaven" but let me be a slut in peace! You can worship your tedious bodily function all you fucking want, but I've got a party to go to.
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On How To Not Spend Any Money In New York City
For the people with lotsa friends, who are themselves incredibly social, invest in an unlimited metro card. It's a chunk of change at the beginning of the month, but there is no guilt for hopping on the subway to see some friends.
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On Ask 'Them': Hello, I Voted For George Bush. Twice! Let's Talk!
Republicans do nothing better than project their own insecurities onto the rest of society. He invites us to dialogue with him, to "learn his ways" as if liberals have been the ones digging our heads in the sand like he has. Which side is so repulsed by same-sex marriage that it denies grown adults (not birds, dogs or horses) the right to marry each other? Which side is shocked that teens are having sex at young ages and failing to equip them with the tools to prevent disease and unwanted pregnancy? Which side is so hell bent on increasing the wealth divide in this country, that their only fiscal directive in the last 30 years has been to cut programs that help the poor AND give tax cuts to the rich? Which side becomes incensed when black/brown people "take their jobs"...Excuse me but who said it was yours in the first place?
Even his title is a projection: He assumes we see conservatives as some foreign 'Them' when it's just their side who can't grasp the concept of a common humanity. It is only the truly delusional who get surprised when "the other" pops up and ruins the picturesque view of AMERICA they've conjured out of thin air. I'll talk to a conservative the minute they admit that their forbears decided to stratify society according to arbitrary characteristics. But if he did that, then he would cease to be.
The entirety of history has been a struggle of the marginalized (whether they be poor, black, gay, a woman or all four) to get a taste of equality from him and others like him. Conservatism has ALWAYS on the wrong side of history. Your ideas are outdated before you say them and I have no use for them.
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On Is Ryan Harrison the One American Tennis Player We Can Believe In?
@Niko Bellic USTA was definitely trying to create a star, which makes sense given that Young, for all his inconsistency, is charismatic on court. Wasn't there some controversy about him playing on Arthur Ashe stadium a few years ago?