by Adam | Saturday 27 February 2010
(reprinted without her permission. it's a little too late at night for me to phone her). As it stands, I am in Woodbridge, Virginia. The sidewalks are coated in nasty, leftover snow. I already miss riding my bicycle to the...
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by Adam | Wednesday 24 February 2010
Rarely does a blogger (or, more accurately, an occasional disseminator of nominally interesting online written matter) get to do what I am about to do. (Hold tight.) Background: Bloggers are the emblem of what's wrong with Western culture; a writer...
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by Adam | Monday 22 February 2010
Read Evan Bayh's op-ed piece in the New York Times about how he's leaving the Senate because it doesn't work anymore. Of course, he makes some wonderful, meaningful points about government dysfunction, but I'm not sure resigning is the answer....
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by Adam | Monday 22 February 2010
Forgive my absence, I recently had a bout with food poisoning. A word to the wise: never let a Jewish girl make you shrimp paella. Even if she is from Florida. Somehow God was in the cards on this one....
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by Adam | Thursday 18 February 2010
Sun sneezing is a real phenomenon and not just a myth. The usual cause of a sneeze is an irritation or blockage in the nasal passages; when we sneeze, air is forced from the nose and mouth to get rid...
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by Adam | Tuesday 16 February 2010
Author's Note: I generally don't write straight journalism (or gay journalism for that matter), but I initially did this piece for the Israeli paper Haaretz. The subject was double booked, so what you're about to read is what no one...
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by Adam | Thursday 11 February 2010
Take half an hour or however long it takes you to read one of those sprawling New Yorker articles (it actually takes me weeks to finish one issue) and settle yourself into Jane Mayer's excellent piece about U.S. General Attorney...
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by Adam | Thursday 11 February 2010
Or to bastardize Voltaire: If this person didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Thanks to TFR reader Jason for sending this (as well as many other things) my way....
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by Adam | Monday 8 February 2010
From a New York Times article about karaoke killings in Asia. Karaoke-related killings are not limited to the Philippines. In the past two years alone, a Malaysian man was fatally stabbed for hogging the microphone at a bar and a...
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by Adam | Sunday 7 February 2010
Loyal Readers, I run for a number of reasons: --I am predisposed to chubbiness --Women love when I talk about running (especially when I casually mention the foreign places where I've run) --I hate the idea that my right knee...
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by Adam | Sunday 7 February 2010
As some (actually none) of you have requested...following my brilliant prognostication viz. the Jets demise in the AFC Championship Game, I am offering the following predictions for Super Bowl XLIV: Prediction #1: I am going to eat too many buffalo...
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by Adam | Friday 5 February 2010
An awesome clip from last night's Daily Show elucidates why this blog is so much better than the others out there. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe Blogs Must Be Crazywww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth...
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by Adam | Thursday 4 February 2010
True Story Darling, you cut the eyes from the dead. You harvest them and like an unnamed tribe of savages you give them away: a miser reaching enlightenment some filigree fibers laying reflective siege upon the cornea of a black...
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