February 2012
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Language Barriers
DAD: Speak more slowly. Your English is too fast for me.
ME: I understand your fluent Chinese. Why can't you understand my fluent English?
ALEX: Checkmate.
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January 2012
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The Unethical Slut, Act II
That wasn’t the first time I was propositioned for an affair. The conservations were always the same. Dissatisfied with their sex lives and unable to find solutions, these men ignored the boundaries set by their partners and sought comfort without consent. They wanted to be cheaters.
They would use any and every excuse: She wouldn’t approve anyway; it would hurt her feelings if I...
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The Unethical Slut
HE: I just moved to Boston, and I am definitely ready to see what the city has to offer. And to do that with someone as sexy as yourself would be ideal!
ME: Does your wife know about this?
HE: No. It's complicated. I hope it's not a dealbreaker.
ME: It is a dealbreaker. I'm not interested in situations where one's partner has not consented.
HE: Okay. Would you consider accompanying me to a swinger party?
ME: ... no.
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Self-Doubt
ME: I'm not sure if I'm really kinky.
HE: You are kinky. Trust me. This is like that time when you thought you would give up sex.
ME: That's right! And four days later, we had sex!
HE: For five hours.
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A Different Kind Of Political Negotiation
ME: I spent my 10 minutes of arguing against a Ron Paul supporter for today. Any more and I will have an aneurism.
HE: 10 minutes a day? You're more giving than I am.
ME: I like pain. What can I say.
HE: "The kind of political discourse you need a safe word for."
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Political Blindness
This election season, I have often found myself discussing the principles behind Ron Paul’s political philosophies. The conversations often end in deadlock because the other person and I have a fundamental disagreement about the federal government’s role in regulating civil rights and services. Other times, the conversations end in my jaw hitting the floor because I receive statements...
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Career Changer
HE: What made you leave neuroscience?
ME: The recession. I'd apply for lab jobs and then hear that the positions have been removed. This retail job was the first one I picked up after school.
HE: That's not uncommon. I know an entire lab that disappeared due to lack of funding.
ME: Oh good. So it's not really just me.
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Keyboard With Customizable Color Keys Now On Sale →
Down at ThinkGeek, the Luxeed U7 Dynamic Pixel LED Keyboard is now on sale for $89.99. Pricey? Worth it! You can change the color of each individual key! Perfect for that grapheme → color synesthete.
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Election Night, Iowa Edition
ME: The Iowa caucus process is complicated. There are separate systems for each party. For the Republicans, most voters write their candidate's name. Some do a hand count, but others get a printed ballot. Also, the caucus doesn't directly select the delegates that go to Republican National Convention. There are, I think, three additional levels of delegate selection before the RNC. Iowa is the first in the nation to have elections, but they are one of the last to choose delegates.
DAD: With a system that complicated, no wonder. They need the time.
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Nigerian Author And Artist Teju Cole Comments on... →
At the Atlantic, senior editor Alexis Madrigal compiles 11 tweets from Teju Cole about the Twitter hashtag #firstworldproblems:
I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on...
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Happy New Year, NDAA Edition
Passed around the Internet is a screenshot that reports the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA)—which reportedly authorizes the government to detain US citizens without proof of threat in Section 1031—and pleads to distribute the news as “your responsibility, right, and obligation as an American citizen”. The source for the image is unknown, but it has...
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Phoenix Down
qwertycoatl replied to your photoset: New Year’s Eve was a merry good time with friends…
I’d love those recipes!
The recipes are posted as links! They can also be found, along with many others, at The Drunken Moogle.
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December 2011
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The Seeker
HE: I clicked your Facebook "election fever" link to your blog and it was about 30 seconds before I could even READ the caption.
ME: I'm just getting people to be politically aware! The Iowa caucuses are next week, after all.
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“[T]here are things one loses in giving up God, and they are not insignificant. ...”
– Prof. Louise M. Antony, “Good Minus God”
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Exploratory Study Finds Over Half Of Self-Reported... →
Recently published in the Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine is an article discussing disturbing statistics for multi-person sex (MPS) among adolescent women in Greater Boston. From EurekAlert:
Emily Rothman, associate professor of community health sciences at BUSPH, and colleagues surveyed 328 females who had utilized a Boston-area community or school-based...
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The Garden In Winter
ME: OMG! I need to take pictures of my Very First Snowless New England Christmas!
HE: Weird. Really?
ME: Yeap. Apparently there's snow in Texas, too.
HE: End times.
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Fancies
HE: You walked in and dropped your panties within 60 seconds of entering my apartment.
ME: Damn. Really? I usually take at least 5 minutes to comment on the decor first.
HE: No, seriously, you were slipping them off AS you commented on the decor.
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Twilight In The Garden
SAM: If I enter a Bed Bath & Beyond, I'm like, "I'm going to spend ten billion dollars on furnishings. I HAVE TO LEAVE THIS PLACE."
ME: IKEA is your friend.
SAM: Eleven billion!
ME: You can be real clever, make your own digital art frame, and just change your statement piece whenever you want.
SAM: We're down to nine billion. This is good. You are a grounding influence.
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