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"My Worst Habit" by Rumi →
My worst habit is I get so tired of winter I become a torture to those I’m with. If you’re not here, nothing grows. I lack clarity. My words tangle and knot up. How to cure bad water? Send it back to the river. How to cure bad habits? Send me back to you. When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom to the ocean. There is a secret medicine given only to those...
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Female Friends Spend Raucous Night Validating The... →
AKRON, OH—According to witnesses, a tight-knit group of five female friends spent a wild night on the town Saturday, overindulging in emotionally supportive behavior and generally validating the living shit out of each other.
Confirming the women get together at least once a month for an all-out, anything-goes session of nonjudgmental reassurances, 28-year-old Sarah Dotson said the evening...
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My Two Favorite "Law & Order: SVU" Games
What real-life crime story is this episode based on?
What else have I seen this actor in? (Tonight, girl from The Ring as sexual abuse victim, Paris from Gilmore Girls as hospital nurse.)
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Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth... →
Until the condom, the diaphragm, the Pill, the IUD, and all the subsequent variants of hormonal fertility control came along, anatomy really was destiny — and all of the world’s societies were organized around that central fact. Women were born to bear children; they had no other life options. With a few rebellious or well-born exceptions (and a few outlier cultures that somehow found their...
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The Montauk Grifter: How One Con Man Used OkCupid... →
Having recently read a book about psychopaths, I’m fascinated by the story of the Montauk Grifter. Gawker’s initial article and subsequent follow-ups are a must-read. My favorite part of the story is that he claimed to be the CTO of Netscape. Netscape?! Really, dude?! And he has the saddest website ever, complete with Flash intro from 1998, where he takes credit for various...
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What I Think About Valentine's Day, by Daria... →
Anyway, my point is that I don’t have anything against Valentine’s Day. In fact, I think it’s kind of cute. If couples want to surprise each other with flowers and chocolates and dinners and jewelry and pharmaceutical-grade ecstasy, accompanied by heart-shaped cards reading “I love you more than life itself and [your transgression here] will never happen again,”...
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