cricketthecat
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Viva la Burt

I hate Sundays..... cause well.... you know who

I love the ending. The voice sets a creepy, truthful tone somehow for me. "I am afraid. I am afraid. I am afraid of women."

Pretty much. Can he please not write about science-related things? He is going to run people away in droves.

Doug Barry is constantly using/inventing turns of phrase that just sound like nonsense to me, to the extent that sometimes (mostly in Dirt Bag when each item is only a sentence long) completely obscure the meaning. Example in this article: wtf does "in case you haven't noticed car exhaust" mean in this sentence? There

Once again, a nifty story gets stuffed into Doug's Play-Doh Writing Funnel... and comes out the other end as a ragged mess of misplaced snark, busted metaphors and sentences like crippled snakes.

Once again Doug makes it nearly impossible to understand what the actual article is about. Algae? Teenagers? Pollution? CBS? Pie?

Seriously! There's no reason to put down humanities to prop up a woman studying science. She's doing great things on her own. Her accomplishments should have stood out in this article, but what stood out is that Doug Barry is pretty much an asshole.

Science will make the future possible. Humanities will make it worthwhile.
Can we please all just get along?

Welp! I was already about to lose my mind from end of semester school stress, and then a few hours ago my live-in boyfriend of two years confessed that he's "not physically attracted to me anymore" and we broke up!