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07 Nov 2009 22:24
Nov. 8, 2009- The House Vote: An Online GuideLinks to follow today's floor action on health care reform.Timothy Noah | chatterbox | Saturday, 12:54 PM ET
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The Slatest: Weekend Edition
Medics with Iraq experience treated wounded at Fort Hood; Abortion foes get major concession on health care; Even Afghans aren't sure Afghanistan would benefit from more troops.
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07 Nov 2009 05:23
Nov. 7, 2009The Slatest Evening Edition - Slate Magazine
After Fort Hood, There's No Excuse for the Ban on Women in Combat
What Does "Stable Condition" Mean? Absolutely Nothing.
Jim Carrey's Admirably Restrained Scrooge
The Great New Single That's a Little Bit Whitney Houston and a Little Bit Rusted Root
Joe Biden Explains His Gaffe-Evasion Strategy
The Box: A Creepy, Confusing Thriller From the Guy Who Brought You Donnie Darko
The Week's Best Editorial Cartoons
How "Men's Rights" Groups Are Changing Domestic-Violence Laws
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009- Too Much BeefWhy Arby's is so low on the restaurant food chain.Daniel Grossmoneybox | Saturday, 7:58 AM ET
- One Lost Job, Two Lost Jobs, Three Lost Jobs …How does the government keep track of employment numbers?Brian Palmerexplainer | Saturday, 7:57 AM ET
- Profit Not Satanic, Says Wealthy BankerA summary of what's in the major publications.Paul Smalera | today's business press | Saturday, 7:54 AM ET
- Let Truth and Falsehood grapple. | | Friday, 6:54 PM ET
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Fort Hood FAQCan you carry a concealed weapon on military bases? And other questions answered.
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The Slatest: Evening Edition
Fort Hood suspect emptied apartment before rampage; Orlando gunman kills one, injures five in Orlando; piece of bread stalls $6 billion particle collider.
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How Does Facebook Know I'm Gay?
Slate's tech-advice column answers your questions about marketing on social networks, Gmail's deletion policy, and more.
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Scrooge 3.0
A 3-D motion-capture version of A Christmas Carol.
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What Does "Stable" Condition Mean?
How can someone be "critical but stable"?
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Why Berlin Mattered
How could one city mean so much?
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Girls in the Hood
If women can defend Fort Hood, they can defend America.
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Reviews of: The Men Who Stare at Goats, , and A Christmas Carol
A daily video from Slate V.
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Tea Parties, the Berlin Wall, and the Forgotten Rain Forest
The week's most interesting Slate stories.
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Slouching Towards St. Louis
A journey through the Travel Channel.
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This Week's Bidenisms
Collecting the vice president's gaffes and head-slappers.
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Government's Heavy Hand
Socialized medicine intrudes on the march against Obamacare.
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I Can Do Normal, Really
Richard Kelly tries to direct a mainstream movie in The Box.
John Swansburg | movies | Friday, 10:49 AM ET
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Denialism
Chris Mooney and Michael Specter | the book club | Friday, 6:54 PM ET
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posted by Samantha Henig
on November 6, 2009More Kids Equals More Happiness?
A post from DoubleX writer Bonnie Rochman: Well, fire up your engines, ladies, because now there’s a new bit of research supporting a third conclusion: that being married with children is the key to happiness . In contrast to previous research that indicates an inverse relationship -
posted by June Thomas
on November 6, 2009Project Runway, Week 12: The Final Challenge
The final challenge involved a trip to the J. Paul Getty Museum, where the designers were told to create a look using the Getty Center as inspiration. Only three of the five remaining contestants could go on to Fashion Week in Bryant Park, and they didn't make the judges' jobs easy. John -
Act the Way You Want To Feel
Hallo, Berlin.
Cartoonists' take on gay rights.
High praise.
- After Fort Hood, There's No Excuse for the Ban on Women in Combat
- What Does "Stable Condition" Mean? Absolutely Nothing.
- Jim Carrey's Admirably Restrained Scrooge
- The Great New Single That's a Little Bit Whitney Houston and a Little Bit Rusted Root
- Joe Biden Explains His Gaffe-Evasion Strategy
- The Box: A Creepy, Confusing Thriller From the Guy Who Brought You Donnie Darko
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06 Nov 2009 06:59
The Slatest Morning Edition - Slate Magazine
Let the Deficit Hawks Squawk: America's Finances Will Be Fine
You Say Americans Are Anti-Science? Prove It.
How To Be Happy: Occasionally Deprive Yourself of the Things You Like
I'm 16 and I Want a Vibrator. Should I Tell My Mom?
Lithwick: Is It Cruel and Unusual To Put a 13-Year-Old Away for Life Without Parole?
Six Things You Need To Know About E. Coli 
I Didn't Like Precious. Does That Make Me a Bad Person?
What I Learned From Dolly Parton
Friday, Nov. 6, 2009- The Slatest: Morning EditionDid the military fail to catch warning signs in gunman's behavior?; Iran's nuclear program could be more advanced than believed; pact to end Honduran crisis fails. | Friday, 8:00 AM ET
- It's So Hard To Say I'm SorryThe financial and personal ramifications that come when a doctor apologizes to a patient.Rahul Parikhmedical examiner | Friday, 7:15 AM ET
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- Wall Street Meets The WireBernhard Warner | Friday, 7:07 AM ET
- BachmaniaMichele Bachmann invites tea partiers to Washington for another swig. | Thursday, 9:33 PM ET
- Is There a Lot of Crime on Military Bases?Not as much as you'd think.Daniel Engber | Thursday, 8:28 PM ET
- PreciousSorry, I didn't like this movie. | Thursday, 7:42 PM ET
- Do Wolves Kill for Sport?No, but sometimes they hunt down more than they can eat.Brian Palmerexplainer | Thursday, 6:55 PM ET
- posted by Gretchen Rubin on November 6, 2009Act the Way You Want to Feel.I use this strategy on myself. If I feel shy, I act friendly. If I feel irritated, I act lovingly. This is much harder to do than it sounds, but it’s uncannily effective.
- posted by Mickey Kaus on November 6, 2009Zombie Orszagism Returns to Kill Health Care Reform For Good? The Obama Administration will find a way to blow health care reform yet. Mere Rhetoric notes a report that Obama aides plan to address Tuesday's election defeats by resurrecting Orszagism, the doctrine that health care reform is the way to control the deficit because it will
- posted by Kerry Howley on November 5, 2009The Cute-ocalypse is Coming Like Lauren, I enjoyed Jim Windolf's insightful attack on cute culture, but I find the otters-holding-hands/Iraq War connection to be a bit of a stretch. Windolf suggests that we're asking for forgiveness through penitential offerings of cuteness, but it's not my impression that most Americans
- Let the Deficit Hawks Squawk: America's Finances Will Be Fine
- You Say Americans Are Anti-Science? Prove It.
- How To Be Happy: Occasionally Deprive Yourself of the Things You Like
- I'm 16 and I Want a Vibrator. Should I Tell My Mom?
- Lithwick: Is It Cruel and Unusual To Put a 13-Year-Old Away for Life Without Parole?
- Six Things You Need To Know About E. Coli
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05 Nov 2009 15:15
President Obama on the Fort Hood Shootings 
The Real Key to the Yankees' Win? A Bunch of Old Guys.
I've Been Framed. Why Can't I Sue the Prosecutor Who Framed Me?
The Weirdest Thing About Cookie Monster
Not All Invasive Plant Species Are as Bad as You Think
Is It Easy for Terrorists To Infiltrate the Afghanistan Police Force?
A Fundamental Secret to Happiness: Get More Sleep
Is Text Messaging Really Destroying Modern Romance?
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009- President Obama on the Fort Hood Shootings | Thursday, 5:46 PM ET
- Soldiers kill, injure dozens at Texas Army base; ex-NYC police chief admits he lied to White House; thriller writers seek Glen Beck's thumbs-up. | Thursday, 5:31 PM ET
- Dirty Beef… and other alimentary concerns. An Explainer roundup. | Thursday, 5:10 PM ET
- Forever YoungDeath is different, but is it all that different from life without parole? Dahlia Lithwickjurisprudence | Thursday, 5:02 PM ET
- Denialism We need to remember that denialism kills people.Chris Mooney and Michael Specter the book club | Thursday, 4:43 PM ET
- Microsoft's Marketing Misfires | Thursday, 2:27 PM ET
- Squawking HawksThe current deficit debate is for the birds.politics | Thursday, 2:21 PM ET
- The Post Off-Year Election GabfestListen to Slate's review of the week in politics.Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotzgabfest | Thursday, 2:04 PM ET
- Geezers Win! Geezers Win!The old-as-dirt New York Yankees take the 2009 World Series.Tim Marchman | Thursday, 10:07 AM ET
- Mickey Mouse's MakeoverCaitlin McDevitt | Thursday, 7:09 AM ET
- Schabowski ShruggedThe unanswered phone calls and misunderstood memos that helped bring down the Berlin Wall.Michael Meyerforeigners | Thursday, 7:01 AM ET
- The Sex Toy TalkShould a 16-year-old tell her mother she wants a vibrator? | Thursday, 7:01 AM ET
- posted by Jonah Weiner on November 5, 2009Track of the Week: Yeasayer's "Ambling Alp" Jonah Weiner: Hi, Jody. In deciding the song we'd discuss this week we considered a few candidates, but "Ambling Alp" excited us most. Yeasayer is a New York band, and this is the lead single from its forthcoming 2010 album, Odd Blood . We start the song ankle-deep in noise, out
- posted by Gretchen Rubin on November 5, 2009Which Websites and Blogs Improve Your Happiness?There is such a treasure trove of material out there; it's hard to keep up with all the great sites to visit. I hope this list will be a good resource.
- posted by Mickey Kaus on November 5, 2009Conservatives Against "Spiritual Health"Reading too much into Tuesday's off-off-year election results would be a mistake, but reading too little into them would be wrong as well.
Chain gangs.
Cartoonists' take on the auto industry.
A little h-e-l-p.
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04 Nov 2009 23:04
Nov. 5, 2009The Slatest Evening Edition - Slate Magazine
- The Framers on the FramersDoes the Constitution protect prosecutors who fabricate evidence?Dahlia Lithwick | supreme court dispatches | Wednesday, 7:17 PM ET
- Don't Be StupakAbortion foes meddle with private health insurance.Timothy Noah | prescriptions | Wednesday, 7:12 PM ET
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Good Cop, Bad Cop?How do we make sure Afghan police officers aren't Taliban?
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The Slatest: Evening Edition
House Republicans' health bill arrives late on purpose; Italy convicts 23 Americans of CIA kidnapping; Afghan elders distrust bearded soldiers.
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The Culture Gabfest, Good Breeding Edition
Listen to Slate's show about the week in culture.
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The Greatest Trade Ever
A podcast with author Gregory Zuckerman.
Daniel Gross and Win Rosenfeld | moneybox | Wednesday, 2:42 PM ET -
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Didn't Learn Because You Grew Up in China)
Despite the one-child policy, millions of Chinese citizens don't know how to have sex without getting pregnant.
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Don't Sweat the Invasion
Why foreign plants and animals may not be that bad.
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"This Bitch Owns Her Own Harley"
A daily video from Slate V.
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All Locked Up
Did Joe Sullivan, sentenced to life at 13, have a fair trial?
Amy Bach | jurisprudence | Wednesday, 12:35 PM ET
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posted by Samantha Henig
on November 4, 2009In A Long-Term Relationship, Do Women Lose Their Sex Drive More Quickly Than Men?
A post from DoubleX Desire Lab blogger Daniel Bergner: There’s a theory that has some currency among sex researchers and therapists: that, over time in monogamous relationships, women lose desire more than men do. Not much data exists; I’m aware of only one large study on this -
posted by Troy Patterson
on November 4, 2009C Is for Cookie
Cookie is a fanatic, undeviating in the quality of his obsession. He eats things. Many lessons on Sesame Street are terminated when something eats them. But Cookie, who has of late been eating mainly cookies, is a junkie. "To me, your nose is a cookie," he once said to another Muppet in a desperate moment. When cookies arrive, he tends to eat the entire shipment, but he is moved to empathy at the sight of a human being temporarily deprived of a cookie. -
Eight Tips for Boosting Your Energy
The crowd goes wild.
Cartoonists' take on campaigning and elections.
Hardballed.
- I've Been Framed. Why Can't I Sue the Prosecutor Who Framed Me?
If Health Reform Passes, Will Private Insurance Still Cover Abortions?- The Weirdest Thing About Cookie Monster
Gold Is Worth $1,100 Per Ounce. Why Does the Treasury Value Its Gold at Only $43?
Not All Invasive Plant Species Are as Bad as You Think- Is It Easy for Terrorists To Infiltrate the Afghanistan Police Force?
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04 Nov 2009 06:16
The Slatest Morning Edition - Slate Magazine
How Do I Get the President To Give My Disease an Awareness Month?
Why Senators Can't Stop Calling the Public Option "Robust"
How To Win a War on Terror, Sri Lankan-Style
So Did We Save the Amazon Rain Forest or What?
Will Joe Lieberman Filibuster Health Care Reform, or Won't He?
The New V Series Is Not About Obama—It's Just About Alien Iguanas
This Guy Has Had Both His ACLs Removed but Still Plays in the NBA. How?
My Taliban Captors Googled Me
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009- The Slatest: Morning EditionIndependent voters favor Republican candidates; more bodies found in house of Cleveland rapist; opposition protesters in Iran clash with police; Martin and Baldwin to host Oscars. | Wednesday, 8:13 AM ET
- He Broke the MoldYou don't see great public sculptors like Augustus Saint-Gaudens anymore.Witold Rybczynskiarchitecture | Wednesday, 7:04 AM ET
- Buffett the Betting ManBernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans | Wednesday, 7:01 AM ET
- What a Difference a Year MakesHow last night's election results were bad for Obama. | Wednesday, 12:20 AM ET
- National Awareness Month Awareness Month How does the president decide whether your cause deserves a proclamation?politics | Tuesday, 7:53 PM ET
- Swine FluHere's what you need to know.Science | Tuesday, 4:50 PM ET
- No Ligaments, No ProblemHow can DeJuan Blair play without an anterior cruciate ligament in either knee?Juliet Lapidos | Tuesday, 4:46 PM ET
- What Does It Look Like To Win a War on Terror?In Sri Lanka, it's fewer suicide bombers, a real estate boom, and hundreds of thousands of Tamils still packed into overcrowded camps.Lionel Beehnerdispatches | Tuesday, 3:11 PM ET
- Guess Who's Coming To Eat Us for DinnerThe classic '80s series V gets a post-9/11 update. | Tuesday, 2:30 PM ET
- RPO SpeedwagonRobust, the unlikely new leader in health reform buzzwords.Bruce Reedthe has-been | Tuesday, 2:19 PM ET
- What Ever Happened to the Amazon Rain Forest?
- posted by Gretchen Rubin on November 4, 2009Eight Tips for Boosting Your Energy.Feeling energetic is a key to feeling happy. Studies show that when you feel energetic, you feel much better about yourself. On the other hand, when you feel exhausted, tasks that would ordinarily make you happy—like putting up holiday decorations—make you feel overwhelmed and blue.
- posted by Mickey Kaus on November 4, 2009Mineola Man Survives N.J. Nuclear Holocaust! What Liberal Bias? This is the main headline on the L.A.Times web home page : Dem score congressional victories in California, N.Y. From staff and wire reports | 9:42 p.m. The GOP fares better in Virginia and New Jersey as both states elect Republican
- posted by Samantha Henig on November 3, 2009In Support of a More Stringent Use of the Term ‘Douchebag’ A post from DoubleX writer Lauren Bans: There’s a funny spoof video up on Boing Boing framed as a PSA of sorts in support of douchebag solidarity. It features a handful of self-pegged douchebags, one pumping iron at the gym, another riffing for the amusement of drink-dangling babes
- After a brief hiatus, How I Met Your Mother returned this week with a new episode and set about addressing, once and for all, this season's nagging question: Can Robin and Barney be funny as a couple? The Shame Index is happy to report that the answer is a rather resounding yes . Shameful:
- How Do I Get the President To Give My Disease an Awareness Month?
- Why Senators Can't Stop Calling the Public Option "Robust"
- How To Win a War on Terror, Sri Lankan-Style
- So Did We Save the Amazon Rain Forest or What?
- Will Joe Lieberman Filibuster Health Care Reform, or Won't He?
- The New V Series Is Not About Obama—It's Just About Alien Iguanas
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03 Nov 2009 10:36
Nov. 3, 2009The Slatest Noon Edition - Slate Magazine
: Duck Gives Peggy a Hickey
Why Do So Many Baseball Players Chew Tobacco?
How Joe Wilson Is Still Milking His "You Lie" Fame
Will Motorola's Droid Phone Take Down the iPhone?
Why Big, Industrialized Farms Are Better for Workers Than Family Farms
The Extremely Quiet, Polite Woman Who's Taking Over Europe
What Dumb People Are Searching for on Google
New Norah Jones Single: How Can a Song About Pirates Be This Boring?
Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009- LiebermaniaWill Joe Lieberman filibuster health care reform, or won't he? | Tuesday, 1:35 PM ET
- The Mystery of the Rising Stock MarketIf the economy's stagnant, why are stocks up? The answer is disturbing. Daniel Grossmoneybox | Tuesday, 1:09 PM ET
- My Taliban Captors Googled MeA daily video from Slate V. | Tuesday, 12:37 PM ET
- The Slatest: Afternoon EditionAbortion and immigration hold up the House health bill; Warren Buffett buys a railroad; Chinese "godmother" gangster sentenced to 18 years in prison; Army officials worry about rising suicide rates. | Tuesday, 12:28 PM ET
- Week 12: Workhorses and show horses. | Tuesday, 10:22 AM ET
- Conversation PieceWhy so much casual talk in Yeats' brilliant poem "Adam's Curse"?Robert Pinsky | Tuesday, 9:33 AM ET
- What Ever Happened to the Amazon Rainforest?Did we save it or what?Brendan Borrell | Tuesday, 7:11 AM ET
- Ford Is Back on TrackCaitlin McDevitt | Tuesday, 7:08 AM ET
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- posted by John Swansburg on November 3, 2009The How I Met Your Mother Shame Index: Episode 6After a brief hiatus, How I Met Your Mother returned this week with a new episode, and set about addressing, once and for all, this season's nagging question: Can Robin and Barney be funny as a couple? The Shame Index is happy to report that the answer is a rather resounding yes . Shameful:
- posted by Gretchen Rubin on November 3, 2009Hugging Kids and Drinking Pinot Noir—but Not Going Blonde From time to time, I post short interviews with interesting people about their insights on happiness. During my study of happiness, I’ve noticed that I often learn more from one person’s highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal principles or cite up-to-date
- NSFT--Not Safe For Twitter--Election Eve Special R, Robot: Could this be the election that validates automated polls as more accurate than regular polls conducted by humans? Robopollster Rasmussen may have more riding on the New Jersey results than Obama . Mark Blumenthal (citing Nate Silver) discusses
Circus people.
Cartoonists' take on Afghanistan.
Twits of a feather.
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02 Nov 2009 17:30
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Mad Men: Aqua Net Is Going To Need a New Campaign
Oh My God! Law & Order Killed Off the American Apparel Guy.
Can Cops Detect a Suspect's Fake Emotions When Investigating a Crime?
Louisa May Alcott's Private Misery
Hitchens: How the U.N. Ruined Any Chance of a Fair Afghan Election
Schwarzenegger Writes a Coded Message in Obama's Facebook Feed
Congress' Silly New Plan To Make Fat Americans Lose Weight
Monday, Nov. 2, 2009- Angela Merkel's Quiet RevolutionShe speaks very softly and doesn't seem to carry a stick.Anne Applebaumforeigners | Monday, 8:05 PM ET
- Pants Still on FireCalling the president a liar has been good for Joe Wilson's career. But is it good for the GOP? | Monday, 6:53 PM ET
- Week 12: How Betty Draper broke my heart. | Monday, 6:12 PM ET
- Why Do So Many Baseball Players Chew Tobacco?Because it's dusty out there. | Monday, 5:58 PM ET
- The Slatest: Evening EditionWest rushes to support Karzai; Krugman and Reich push for larger stimulus; thousands of names added daily to FBI terror list. | Monday, 5:21 PM ET
- Hang Up and Listen, the A-Rod's Redemption EditionStefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca | Monday, 4:52 PM ET
- In Defense of JaywalkingBanning the practice won't make pedestrians safer.Tom Vanderbilttransport | Monday, 4:01 PM ET
- The Closeted GroomPrudie dispenses advice about a fiancé who has a bisexual past—and counsels other advice seekers. | Monday, 3:10 PM ET
- Dear Prudence: Engaged and Feeling Trapped | Monday, 2:49 PM ET
- Blowing the ShotWhat we can learn from the shortage of H1N1 vaccine.Marc Siegelmedical examiner | Monday, 2:35 PM ET
- Better Off on Big Farms For workers in agriculture, size matters.Tracie McMillangreen room | Monday, 12:10 PM ET
- First, Silence the Whistle-BlowerThe United Nations' shameful complicity in this year's corrupt Afghan elections. | Monday, 12:10 PM ET
- The Slate EndorsementsBooks, music, movies, and other stuff Slate writers liked this month.slate fare | Monday, 10:35 AM ET
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- Awkward SuggestionsLet's have fun with the Google search box.Michael Aggerlifehacking | Monday, 9:36 AM ET
- How Ayn Rand Became an American IconThe perverse allure of a damaged woman.Johann Hari | Monday, 7:01 AM ET
- Did CIT Kill Christmas?Bernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans | Monday, 6:56 AM ET
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- posted by Dana Stevens on November 2, 2009The Old Man and the Paris Opera Ballet Frederick Wiseman 's La Danse , a 158-minute documentary about the Paris Opera Ballet, opens this week for a two-week run at New York’s Film Forum , followed by a national rollout through December. If you know the director’s work already, that sentence stands on its own as an argument for seeing
- posted by Mickey Kaus on November 2, 2009NSFT--Not Safe For Twitter! kf --Always the Positive Spin: The UAW's Ford workers have rejected contract concessions that would have almost-but-not-quite lowered Ford's labor costs to match GM and Chrysler's new costs, which are said to almost-but-not-quite match Toyota and Honda's. But is that really so bad? It
- posted by Willa Paskin on November 2, 2009A Defense of "Cougar Town"Emily Nussbaum makes the case against Cougar Town in this week’s New York : Courtney Cox’s Jules Cobb is no Samantha Jones. “The Samantha Jones iconography has gone retro, regressing to a Cathy cartoon in heels,” Nussbaum writes. “Jules Cobb, the divorced ninny played by Cox, might date
- posted by William Saletan on November 2, 2009Genes, Murder, and Bad DrivingCan crimes and crashes be blamed on bad genes?
- posted by Gretchen Rubin on November 2, 2009A Secret to Happiness That I Overlooked -- Until Now.People are adaptable. We quickly adjust to a new life circumstance—for better or worse—and consider it normal. Although this helps us when our situation worsens, it means that when circumstances improve, we soon become hardened to new comforts or privileges. Scoring air-conditioning, a bigger house, or a fancy title gives us only a brief boost in happiness before we start to take it for granted. As Aldous Huxley wrote, “Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.” That’s the hedonic treadmill.
Underpasses and overpasses.
Cartoonists' take on Pakistan.
Tour de farce.
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02 Nov 2009 01:20
Nov. 2, 2009- Week 12: Aqua Net is going to need a new campaign. | Sunday, 11:19 PM ET
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Mad Men, Season 3
Patrick Radden Keefe, John Swansburg, and Julia Turner | tv club | Sunday, 11:19 PM ET
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posted by Gretchen Rubin
on November 1, 2009"Natural Inclinations...Are Hardly Ever Altered or Overcome."
“Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.” -- Montaigne This brief line from Montaigne is probably one of the top three biggest influences on the decisions I make as a parent -- along with the memory of my own
- Schwarzenegger Writes a Coded Message in Obama's Facebook Feed
Why I Went Surfing in the Arctic Ocean- Can Cops Detect a Suspect's Fake Emotions When Investigating a Crime?
- Louisa May Alcott's Private Misery
Rosenbaum: Hannah Arendt Was So Wrong About the Banality of Evil
Why Are Helicopters Crashing All the Time?
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01 Nov 2009 10:56
Nov. 1, 2009TODAY'S DOONESBURYChopping it up.
Kaus: The Winners and Losers of Election '09
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