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Stay Away From This Woman

כ״ב באלול ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 1 September 2010)

Sometimes I can read an advice column just for the questions, and ignore the answers. This is one of those times: Dear Prudence, Twenty years ago, I had a child out of wedlock. I had slept with two men during that period, “Tom” and “Mike.” I assumed Tom was the father, but when I told [...]

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Has Slate Declined?

כ״א באלול ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 31 August 2010)

Like TJIC, I read the firmly middlebrow Slate very regularly (I’ve subscribed to the main Slate RSS feed for about three years). Also like him, I have noticed some changes in Slate’s overall quality over time. Here are some things that I think Slate is doing right: Podcasts. I listen to the Political Gabgest and [...]

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Boys & Girls & Maturity

י״ג באלול ה׳תש״ע (Monday 23 August 2010)

When I was a “pre-teen,” I was informed multiple times by adults in my vicinity that girls matured faster than boys (now “pre-teens” don’t even exist any more, having been replaced by “tweens”). Some evidence around me seemed to support this contention. By all accounts, the girls around me matured physically a year or two [...]

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Text Messages & Genital Adjustment

כ״ה בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Monday 11 January 2010)

“Dear Prudence” is not my favorite advice column by a long shot, but it’s the one that I just happened to read, so I’m going to comment on it now. One woman writes that she is “28-year-old single woman, … tired of being asked out on dates via text message,” and goes on to explain [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

י״ב בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 29 November 2009)

I don’t know jack shit about farming, but I know a few things about logistics and a few more about economics, and I spent more than 20 years in America and fucking love Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for this year? If you’re an American, you should give thanks that your president hasn’t yet appointed [...]

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Birobidzhan: The Worst Idea Ever

י״א בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 28 November 2009)

How do you know you’ve got the worst idea ever? It’s unlikely that anyone will come up to you and say, “Your idea is so bad it makes me want to cry,” nor will your idea win a “worst idea ever” vote (masses of people tend actually to prefer bad ideas as a matter of [...]

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