November 2011
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5 Things That Deeply Offend Me →
3. Being glued to your smart phone when we’re having one-on-one time
When my best friends decided to get smart phones, I didn’t realize I would be competing with it for their attention. I didn’t know that they would be texting at the table, even when I’m spilling my guts about something. I like to think of myself as being a swanky steakhouse with the # 1 rule being “NO CELL PHONES IN THE...
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The Occupy Wall Street librarians tweeted the eviction all night: “NYPD...
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Occupy Wall Street Library Reportedly Thrown Away By NYPD
(via koolthings)
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Friendship 101
Families: “Families are like democracy: really rubbish, but better than the alternative” —Outnumbered
Friends: “Can be rubbish too, but I don’t have to keep them!”—Me
I have standards—Friendship 101, bitch.
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Organized business, in these years, showed itself well aware not only of the...
– Jane Humphries’s “Women: Scapegoats and Safety Valves in the Great Depression” (1976)