January 2011
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Portlandia: An Ode to the Pacific Northwest →
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Equality Myth: In Defense of Female Quotas →
equalitymyth:
This week, organizers of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos—where the (usually white, male) ruling class gathers to solve the world’s problems—announced that sponsors must bring at least one woman in their five-person delegations. In which we defend their decision.
Preach.
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November 22nd, 2010
braiker:
themonkeysyouordered:
That doorknob is fucking huge.
Your new favorite Tumblr: literal New Yorker cartoons.
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“Video producer Ryan Jones of New York said he and a co-worker pooled their money...”
– Excerpted rom the AP piece about the LOST lotto experience. Read the full article here. (via kryanjones)
** I think the best part about this, despite me being super pumped about my friends winning $150, is that the AP needed FIVE reporters for this story. Yup: five. In three states.
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Things are probably not so good when you’re still in the wife-beater you slept in, your hair is in a version of the braid you went out with on NYE, and your meal today has consisted of nutella out of a jar (now smeared across wifebeater) and a michelada. For the love of God, Newsweek-Daily Beast, let’s make this merger happen already.
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“I was asked years ago to address the elementary school that my son attended and...”
– Legendary NYC political muckraker Wayne Barrett, in a departing column for the Village Voice. Barrett was let go from the Voice; fellow investigative reporter Tom Robbins followed him out the door. As a former Barrett intern, I can attest that this is truly the end of an era.
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