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Why does Peggy Noonan hate America?
I adore plane travel. I love the sheer improbability of nine hundred thousand pounds of steel, people and fuel flitting through the air like Nijinsky on a coke binge. I love the fact that there are...
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Laugh, clowns, at your broken loves
I don’t often visit the New York Times website. There is far too much risk that I might accidentally be exposed to something written by David Brooks, at which point I would have to poke out my own...
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Why does Doogie Howser want to destroy the world?
Some of you may have noticed that I post a fair bit about the gays, particularly on Balloon Juice. Now, some people have asked, with some justification, “Sarah, as a proud, if fictional, Republican...
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The Secret Blogger’s Birthday Ball
Well, kiddies, I’ve always tried to give you the unvarnished truth, and now I have to say that I cannot go along with the lies any more, despite the handsome retainer that John Cole pays me each month...
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99%
We are the 99%. Well, you are anyway, for the most part. I, on the other hand, am stonkers with cash, positively rolling in it. My father was the second son of the Baron Capel of Tewkesbury, although...
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Little fluffy clouds
I’m trying to understand. I managed to put my back out somewhere in Portugal, then picked up a dread lurgy in Amsterdam, and have therefore spent the last week making my way home to Shady Pines,...
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Good Friday Grifters
I quite like Good Friday. The chants at the morning service at the Convent of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen down the road are always so lovely. Although I’m Catholic, and therefore not particularly...
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Girls, we do whatever it will take
I’m not writing about the election until the next time Romney opens his mouth and says something stupid (which could be ten minutes from now, so you never know). A book thread (along with physics...
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Just a tiny figure, rigid and restrained, blue eyes filled with pain…
The decision of the Supreme Court to grant a stay of same-sex marriages in Utah shouldn’t really come as a great surprise, whatever the actual merits of the stay application. The attorneys from the...
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Having the stones
In December 2013, in a 6-1 vote, the City Council of Shreveport, Louisiana passed an non-discrimination ordinance which covered LGBT people. The one vote against was a councilman by the name of Ron...
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