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Second Look: Bruce Ivins
In partial spite of my tongue-in-cheek writing up of Bruce Ivins’s oddball lifestyle in the run up to his mailing Anthrax letters to members of Congress shortly after September 11, 2001, a second look at the document proves absolutely chilling. I didn’t notice this upon first read, because some of the paragraph is cut off [...]
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Doc Anthrax
So the thing they told us in college when everyone was freaking the fuck out about anthrax-filled letters popping up all over D.C. was that, really, the chance of being targeted was near-zero because a) the supply of anthrax is almost nil, b) its difficult to make and c) the number of people with access [...]
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Visiting hours are over
I’ve only been to the emergency room once for an actual emergency. Since the hospital near my house is — and please note the word purportedly, because I ain’t fuckin’ with any libel lawsuit – purportedly a public death machine, I opted for the next one on the Google Maps search for “holy shit I [...]
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The 6 Weirdest Things Women Do to Their Vaginas
Can’t pass up a headline like that, can you?
This would be one of those things that I’ll invariably click on Huffington Post, knowing full well its going to be somehow awful, gross, disappointing, or wrong. Turns out AlterNet is the true predator here. Either way, it wouldn’t be worth posting at all if it weren’t [...]
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Hey everyone! Let’s all deconstruct a Sarah Palin Op-ed!
Obviously there is no media outlet that views itself as being part of ‘the media.’ This is problematic, especially when media outlets write pieces about how Sarah Palin is juicing the media cycle by hopping on issues at the height of their short-lived, American attention span induced popularity (remember when Dave Letterman had an affair, or something? me neither).
Every editorial [...]
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Move along, nothing alarming happening here.
wuh, wait what?
Crashergate Hearing: Secret Service Learned About Breach from Facebook
Countdown to assassination of First Black President begins… NOW.
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This seems like a problem, no?
We’ve heard about the Japanese and their fake intimacy before. This, however, is a bit too much to bear.
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This post expresses a form of sympathy for Sarah Palin, so we got a Drudge Siren to draw attention to it.
When you’re famous, you have to do things like, I don’t know, wash thoroughly under the arms, wear things that match, and, when things get really crunched, maintain a schedule.
On the other hand, if you’re a disgruntled, semi-employed Indianan, you needn’t do any of those things and, judging by the crowd in Noblesville, you assume [...]
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The youngs, the west, and their fucking bicycles.
If it were true, as I momentarily considered, that youth culture comes, like the weather, from the west, then an article like this might have a home in New York Times.
It doesn’t.
But if not for that premise, why publish it at all? Is it, indeed, a new phenomenon that bicycles are the mode of transportation [...]
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Hyperbole!