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Watchhearsayandhyperbole:
Finally, Linda and Rhonda have brought their tan bodies, manicured fingernails and brilliant minds back to the internet for their latest spectacular extravaganza of fabulousness! You can look forward to special guest stars and advice on things like weight loss and how to spend the last year on earth!
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Longreads: Businessweek's Sheelah Kolhatkar: My... →
longreads:
Sheelah Kolhatkar is features editor at Bloomberg Businessweek.
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Some of my favorite non-Businessweek features that were published this year:
“Lost at Sea,” Jon Ronson, The Guardian
This piece combines a genre I love—the gritty crime story—with the utter weirdness of the…
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Think Progress: 11 Facts From 2011 →
think-progress:
1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.
2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.
3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.
4. 68% of millionaires support raising taxes on millionaires.
Text of the day/party at my parents house tonight...
“I was going to see if I could get her to come but probably not. She’s with her boyfriend. He’s French. That means he’s scared of parties.”
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“Watching the news—
Story on Hassan
an Iraqi video arcade owner.
All of...”
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Watchfyeahafrica:
THE RAPE OF THE SAMBURU WOMEN For more than fifty years, England has maintained military training facilities in the Samburu region of its former colony, Kenya.
During this period, women in the area have faced an epidemic of rape. Women from the Samburu, Massai, Rendile and Turkana indigenous communities have filed more than 600 official rape claims against British soldiers.
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hearsayandhyperbole:
just like a station on the radio
i pick you up
