June 2009
5 posts
Jun 18th
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For those of you on Twitter...
skybarn: brooklynmutt: apsies: kaytee:shorterexcerpts: Change your twitter settings to say you are in the Tehran timezone, and change your location to Tehran. Iranian censors are filtering by these settings to find dissidents, by doing this you can make things a bit more difficult for them. done! hello, what is wrong with these so-called “dissidents” that their twitter...
Jun 16th
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ABORT
Andrew Sullivan has been one of the most vocal advocates of a moderate, nuanced “appreciation of the shades-of-gray” approach to abortion policy, but he maybe should have hired a girl intern to screen those dubious “Personal Choice” first-person abortion stories he has been posting on his blog because I am pretty sure these ones are fake.
Jun 3rd
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On that awesome book review written by that one...
skybarn: craptheblog: I still think the review should never have been published. It opens the door—especially because so many people think it’s so great—for Ad Hominem attacks on every novel, movie and restaurant review. Is there anyone less objective then an ex? What do I care if the ex of a writer is conflicted about the novel? It’s a distraction and it’s irrelevant. Hey, Skybarn, you...
Jun 2nd
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Crap Email Critical Readings
Crap Email From A Dude is back! And now on our brand-new Tumblr I am writing literary critiques of my favorites, starting with yesterday’s in which a lawyer emailed his ex-girlfriend’s co-worker after ten months of silence to find out how she was doing — and invite him to for a bout of “prowling/scamming/trollop hunting.” At first glance Jared’s Crap Email to Tom,...
Jun 2nd
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