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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We
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So I’ve been pondering the Bill Cosby thing as practically everybody who works in or adjacent to television has over the last few days, and I don’t want to make this too long because it’s been a bit of a beardstrokeathon already and most of what needs to be said has been said, but I
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A Brief Essay on Overlength This weekend, I have seen three different things that were far too long. Here they are, in the order I enjoyed them. (Spoilers ahoy.) TOO MANY COOKS What is it? An 11-ish-minute long segment on Adult Swim’s bizarro 4 a.m. slot, “Infomercials,” where the network (already fairly free-form and lenient
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Good morning! Today I am holding my nose and voting: —For Domenic Recchia, the Democratic Congressional candidate. Mr. Recchia is an embarrassment on foreign policy and couldn’t name the committees he would want to serve on if elected. How bad is the Republican candidate? Well, he’s an incumbent in Albany, so obviously he’s pretty bad,
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A couple of people have asked me to explain GamerGate! This is a strange thing to try to do, but the easiest way is chronologically. Here we go: —Zoe Quinn, a game designer who also happens to be a pretty 26-year-old with piercings and dyed hair, publishes a neato choose-your-own-adventure-style game about how horrible it
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You’ll titter. Then you’ll chortle. Then you’ll guffaw. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Today in cool. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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worstcats: Things that are good about cats soft fur cute face fluffy tail adorable dry This cat fails on all levels
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neil-gaiman: Hard. Especially the swimming around in the milkshake scene. That milkshake was COLD. And on Arthur they make you do your own stunts. I laughed.
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I think what it mostly is is that he’s afraid of seeming abnormal, or unusual in some kind of way that would make him stand out and attract unwanted attention, because of his important work. So what he does is lash out at people, women in particular, since he’s so lonely and sad and unknowable