December 2011
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November 2011
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The next Steve Jobs will be a chick →
Louis C.K.
The next Steve Jobs will totally be a chick, because girls are No. 2—and No. 2 always wins in America. Apple was a No. 2 company for years, and Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of creativity, and that striving to always make the greatest version of something. Traditionally, men are...
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Starlings
By Michael Burns
I won’t say that I didn’t hear peeping
when I started up the ladder to take a look.
I could just reach far enough to hook
a swatch of straw as big as a pillow
and pull it loose, and down came
three half-grown baby birds
with eyes wide open, and heads too big
for their necks. I stared at their ancient,
blameless stupidity, and then I whacked
them over and...
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I Drop My Daughter Off at the Early Morning Prayer...
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She has forgotten her coat. It’s red, white and blue. The car radio says an icon is dead: Spiro Agnew.
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Suddenly I remember my eleven-year-old brother, with whom I shared a room, kneeling, in his underwear, to pray at the foot of our bed.
I was ten. I stood there watching. I can’t swear by this time I had given up God.
Maybe just to get this memory back out of a...
October 2011
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Obama Has Written Personal Checks To Struggling... →
I doubt a staunch conservative Republican President would do this.
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Girlfriend Changes Man Into Someone She's Not... →
“The reason I fell so hard for Brendan was that he was totally different from the guys I used to date,” Nickles said. “He had beautiful long hair, and he was really smart and cynical. Now he reminds me of my boring ex-boyfriend Kevin, who’s an accountant in Raleigh.”
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Steve Jobs Is Dead.
(A small little something I wrote for a visionary I honestly admired.)
He had lost too much weight, strangers could see that, and weight is the first thing to go say the experts, first thing that’s missed and it was gone, the fleshy weight of him,
his black turtleneck loose on his frame, jeans that used to fit, cinched tight. We saw the cancer keep pace with him, in the pixels of our...
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Poets ranked by beard weight →
A great idea. You can purchase the book here. I’ve now discovered why I’m not successful at poetry. My beard isn’t worthy.
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Airport Pat-Down for Breast Cancer Patient →
But Ms. Dorn says that last week, on her way to San Francisco to visit friends, she was treated with hostility and humiliated after the tissue expanders were detected by a body scanning machine at Kennedy Airport in New York. She said the workers from the Transportation Security Administration would not let her retrieve a medical card explaining the implants, a situation she wrote about on...
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Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales →
American business, left to its own devices. De-regulation isn’t going to stop this.
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September 2011
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It's not "class warfare," it's Christianity →
Part of the way we got here is by Christian conservatives ignoring a lot of what the Bible says on wealth and poverty, and being highly selective in what they call “biblical.” In all these reference to the “Bible,” the self-styled Christian capitalists don’t ever seem to recall that in the Book of Acts, the early disciples “shared all things in common.” As I wrote for On Faith, the early...
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The Dinner of Her Skin
The bitch
wreaked of lavender
and some mint,
and then faint trails of marigold and hibiscus.
I hunted her, for months observing the small zigzag pattern of her gait,
the exquisite tiny hops of her feet that played like a melody when she stepped.
And I knew
where she had been,
where she was going.
I knew the hearty smell
of dinner soup
she spooned
in to her mouth.
I...
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Republican Can't Afford New Taxes →
Watch the video, and then I’ll break down the numbers.
John Fleming’s Subway and UPS franchises bring in about 6.3 million a year. Net income is $600,000, a rough profit of 10%. Great, awesome.
Here’s the good part, he has to “feed his family,” and $400,000 is left over. So if you do the math, he pays himself $200,000. The national median for household incomes in...
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The TSA protects! It saves lives! It ships... →
Can we get rid of this worthless institution now?
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Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult →
Every American should read this. The public outcry should be epic.
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The Terrorists Win. →
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Shema
The following poem is based on an earlier poem called “I Have Given Evil A Name.” That poem will remain in the archives, but consider it scratched. The middle section of that poem was by far the strongest, so I took it out and made it stand on its own.
Our God who razed the Mosques, burning God of witches, Lord inquisitive God of Spain,
our God the Crusader, God the Jew hater, God,...
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What you should have learned Senior year. →
The Oatmeal imparts his wisdom once again.
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"Trickle-down economics" is wrong →
Look back over the last hundred years and you’ll see the pattern. During periods when the very rich took home a much smaller proportion of total income — as in the Great Prosperity between 1947 and 1977 — the nation as a whole grew faster and median wages surged. We created a virtuous cycle in which an ever growing middle class had the ability to consume more goods and services, which...
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TSA Security Theater →
The video is spot on.
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WatchLou Nasti’s Mechanical Displays. Funny name, but this guy is amazing.
