“The problem is it’s… I can’t think of a word to describe it.  It’s… well, bizarre doesn’t even come close.  Senseless doesn’t get close.  I can’t identify a reason why it was written.  I can’t figure out what inspired Brooks to write it, well, oth...

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With the bar exam a week away, I’m going to be running a few pieces from the Second Ave. Sagas archives over the next few days. With summer fully upon us and temperatures expected to reach the triple digits on Friday, now is as good a time as any to appreciate air conditioned subway cars. So a...

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Unsurprisingly, a record number of kids aren’t finding summer jobs and Slate has the lowdown . They’ll try to tell you that it’s because of the recession, that it’s because nowadays young people have to work harder in school and take more unpaid internships. But we all kn...

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→ Courage → Determinat ion → Strong will → Fortitude → Having guts → Grit → Endurance Recently an article titled “Mic higan̵ 7;s Upper Peninsula struggles to survive” seemed to make headlines in every news source in the Upper Peninsula, many a...

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There’s a bunch of stuff to get out of the way with the drink called the “Hig hball̶ 1;. First off, like with the Martini, there is a modern tendency to use the name “Hig hball̶ 1; for a whole class of drinks. In the case of the Highball, people use it as a category nam...

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On September 21, 1832, Maria W. Stewart became the first African-American woman to lecture on women’s rights. She was jeered at by male crowds, who pelted her with tomatoes. A few years later in Philadelphia, Lucretia Mott received a similar reception when she pointed out that it was “...

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Obama has gone Old School. Literally. Back in 1967, he was living in Indonesia and attended “Koran class” , where a negative attitude towards Jews and Israel was no doubt instilled in him. (See also here .) Today, he “sug gestedR 21;, drawing on the Full power of the ...

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Drip, drip drip.  This isn’t a loose pipe… its your body.  Try as you might, you can’t stop the urine and feces from dripping down your legs. With your private parts torn apart, likely as a result of childbirth gone bad, you now have a steady stream of human waste trickling out...

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Muriel Jones wrote a new blog post: Atul Gawande on The Power of Negative Thinking On May 25, 2011, practicing surgeon and accomplished writer, Dr. Atul Gawande will be presenting on How to Get Things Right in a Complex World as a part of Linkage’s Thought Leader Series . On May...

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