Amazing: "Andrea sends a stripper to her high school reunion in her place."Bacon pops? Yes please.
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Right now I'm reading Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion's collection of essays, and really loving it. In the intro she writes "My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so tempermentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
Poughkeepsie Journal: Restoring a Rail Bridge, Without the Rails: "A historic crossing over the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie is being converted into a pedestrian walkway." I love the Hudson River Valley...
Gender and the Supreme Court “Vacancy”: "Last week, Dahlia Lithwick wrote an intriguing article in Slate magazine regarding the frequently heard argument that President Obama’s first nominee to the Court should be a woman. Lithwick quotes Justices Ginsberg and O’Connor lamenting the dearth of women on the Court and also examines the arguments concerning whether women are different jurists than men."
Yale's Conspiracy of Silence: "Twelve years after Yale rejected a $7 million endowment for a gay student center, the school's Gay and Lesbian Association invited legendary playwright and gay-rights activist Larry Kramer back to campus to receive its first Lifetime Achievement Award. The following is his speech."
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