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speakeasy: the one where hillary gets it right

2008-04-30T18:35:55Z

Perhaps it is fitting that, having absolved American racists of all manner of crimes against others, Obama also holds them blameless for their assaults on himself. That's his prerogative, as long as he's the only one being assaulted. But Obama w...

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speakeasy: i need to learn this

2008-04-19T08:31:01Z

Could we have gotten more good work done if we worked those extra five Fridays? I seriously doubt it. Would we have been happier working five extra days over the last 30? I seriously doubt it. Is a four-day work week better for morale and product...

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speakeasy: take your "world music" and shove it

2008-04-19T07:45:01Z

Alan Scholefield, an Honest Jon's co-founder, detests the world music label. "It's a nasty phrase. It made my blood run cold when I first heard it, it still does now and it always will," he says. "At Honest Jon's, we have long been aware of cooler...

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speakeasy: like the fall of rome

2008-03-28T22:46:08Z

My husband and I look forward to [Rock of Love 2] every week, sometimes going as far as to privilege it over catching up on “The Wire.” We’re not alone in this guilty pleasure. Conan O’Brien admits his writers are oddly enamored with the program. ...

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speakeasy: mr. telephone man

2008-02-27T07:31:08Z

The home is remote, even by Tibetan standards. Charming carvings cannot disguise how primitive it is. Not only does it have no toilet, it doesn't have an outhouse. Or even a designated hole in the ground. It does, however, boast one very great pri...

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speakeasy: sorry, phd, they're just not that into you

2008-02-21T15:11:01Z

liberal students reported valuing intellectual freedom, creativity, and the chance to write original work and make a theoretical contribution to science. They outnumbered conservative students two to one in the humanities and social sciences — whi...

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speakeasy: words on paper

2008-02-21T06:58:37Z

The first thing you notice when you pick up a piece of work published by McSweeney's is how handsome it is. One of the hallmarks of the upstart publisher founded by wunderkind memoirist Dave Eggers is its loving attention to the look of print medi...

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speakeasy: one is the happiest number

2008-02-12T15:44:31Z

I’m fifty-four years old and I have always been single. I love my single life. But for a long time I rarely said that out loud. I thought I was the only happy single person. - Single and Happy by Bella DePaulo, American Sexuality Magazine So, it'...

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speakeasy: big-ups to big-up

2008-01-29T01:38:17Z

Note that Jaime Pressly said that “Ugly Betty” was “big-upping the ugly fat girl,” not that the show was “bigging up the ugly fat girl” (or “bigging the ugly fat girl up“). So we find that big-up is being treated as a single entity that can be in...

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speakeasy: more than you ever wanted to know about facebook

2008-01-24T09:03:55Z

I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why...

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