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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
What’s Behind Upworthy’s Success? The Answer Will Make You Cry
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As if the internet weren’t already such an infinite time suck, along comes a website that targets curious, ADD-addled procrastinators suc...
Thursday, November 21, 2013
“Inner Beauty Doesn’t Exist”: Venezuela’s Beauty Problem
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If you had money on anyone other than Miss Venezuela in the recent Miss Universe pageant (or in any international beauty pageant ), then...
Cruise, Wahlberg, and Afghanistan
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Seriously committed artists – actors, writers, etc. – work hard at their craft. But not combat hard. In the last few days, statements fr...
Controlling the Language of Political Warfare
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Over at the Addicting Info website, which you may not have heard of but is surprisingly highly-trafficked, Elisabeth Parker posted a piec...
Thursday, November 14, 2013
The Solidarity of the Heart
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As if the photos last week of Pope Francis comforting a man afflicted with a terrible, painful genetic disorder weren’t heart-tugging e...
Jimmy Kimmel and the Tyranny of Feelings
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“You know, today is a weird day,” late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel said on Monday’s show. “There seems to be a lot of people upset with me...
Ending the War on Terror
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In a piece last week in The Atlantic entitled “ Terrorism Could Never Threaten American Values—the ‘War on Terror’ Does ,” James Fallows...
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Boys to Men: One High School’s 83-Year Mission
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I did a double-take recently when I noticed a Washington Post report that San Francisco 49ers owner John York and the sons of Dallas Co...
Are the Democrats on the Ropes?
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As the laughably named Affordable Care Act simultaneously self-destructs and wreaks havoc, the right grows more and more optimistic that ...
Monday, November 4, 2013
The Most Interesting Man in the World is More Interesting Than You Think
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You know him as the Most Interesting Man in the World: the gravel-voiced spokesman for Dos Equis beer, always flanked by beautiful women,...
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