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Monthly Archives: May 2012
What You Really Really Want
In which Diana Spechler relives her senior prom. Continue reading
Five Arguments for Universal Health Care Democrats Should Be Making
In which Greg Olear makes the case for universal health care, five times, using logic even Republicans can appreciate. Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged heal the sick, health care, The Constitution, universal health care
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I Love the Smell of Testosterone in the Morning
In which Alex Clark comes clean about her unsavoury habit of watching boys fight on the internet. Continue reading
Sunday in the Park with Max Ginsburg
“My objective is to paint about the people of New York,” says Max Ginsburg, “realistically and with compassion.” Continue reading
Acid House, The Police Protest and The Politics of Dancing: Jeremy Deller’s London
In London, police policed police. Not a mile away, the artist Jeremy Deller was, appropriately, having a career mini-retrospective. Jennifer Kabat was there. Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
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Fetal Attraction
Typically, Republicans want to off everything with a heartbeat, be it an adorable animal, an enemy combatant, or a behoodied teen on his way to buy Skittles. Why, Stacie Adams wonders, should the unborn be exempt? Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged abortion, GOP, kill 'em all, Newt Gingrich, pro-death, pro-life, Republicans, Rick Santorum
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National Tap Dance Day
In which Diana Spechler falls in love with a variety of dancing men. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Foot Loose, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Grease, Jerusalem, John Travolta, McDonald's, Olivia Newton John, Sinai
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Tomorrow Never Knows: Six Things Guaranteed to Happen on the Last Three Episodes of “Mad Men”
Will Pete Campbell jump out his office window? Will Megan Draper survive the season? Will Don cheer up already? What’s with Mother Lakshmi? Greg Olear has the skinny on Mad Men. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Cool-Whip, Don Draper, Joan Holloway, Mad Men, Megan Draper, Pete Campbell, predictions, Roger Sterling, season 5, Thomas Pynchon, Weight Watchers
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I Am Furious Orange
In which Alex Clark gives up smoking and uses the internet as free anger management therapy. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged addiction, anger, cigarettes, smoking, smoking cessation, therapy
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Ode to Sex Ed, or, Miss Teen Mom USA Probably Lives in Mississippi
Teen pregnancy rates are at their lowest in thirty years, the lowest they’ve been since 1940 when the CDC started keeping count. So why does the GOP keep pushing “Abstinence-Only” education? Elissa Schappell investigates. Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged abstinence only, AIDS, gateway sexual activity, GOP, Mississippi, Planned Parenthood, sex ed, teen pregnancy
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