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Psychopomps: Sleep and Death
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I always liked when Gawker had Adam Weinstein working the military angle. Really good, thoughtful writing by someone with experience and willing to do the research.

This is mocking the NYT’s resident idiot and bullshit peddler Bret Stephens (aka, college liberals are mean and global warming is fake). I fell for the last one before checking the byline.

Completely agreed, without caveat.

My institution missed out on a chance to participate in this, as we’re on spring break this week (and we’re a college, so our “walkout” participation would’ve been markedly different than a public K-12 school), but any educator who seeks to restrain their students from exercising

That’s an icy hot take.

His ass is showing the cleavages in the alt-right movement.

I want her and Sarah Palin to have a televised spelling bee.

Because I am sad and jaded, I disagree that many—maybe most—people aren’t murderous. The 12 hours would start with mostly theft, I’d think, but that would devolve quickly. Everyone thinks their one desired act of violence is reasonable in the vacuum of their own logic (or fear). Multiply that by an entire society and

I wouldn’t kill anyone, but there are several people I’d punch in the face.

Bless your heart.

Good for her from the perspective of fighting colorism, especially given that Wakanda is meant to be an untouched, thoroughly sub-Saharan country. She would have been visibly out of place.

I have to agree with some others and say that I thoroughly enjoy a bathroom in a higher-end hotel, especially when I enter right after check-in. Privacy, quiet, and just fresh!

He should have walked off the field after career TD #69 and never came back. He owed it to himself.

I have always found it deeply weird that two of the top guys in this administration were a guy who looks just like Race Bannon and a guy named Bannon who peddles grievances over race.

Republican in the front, skinhead in the back.

I’ve been trying to channel the confidence of a mediocre white guy while applying to grad programs this fall.

These young men and, really, more and more people are seeing that these young men, and I’m telling you the papers have been writing about this and about how I’ve been very strong in this regard, these young, strong men can actually be tied together with, I guess it’s this type of plastic cord, plastic cord that is

I saw that (Screencap) on your link to the book discussion.

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