Just got ghosted on Hinge: It doesn’t matter, the life is ruined already.
Overheard through Telegram
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Lester in Love
I: For a neurotic weenie you sure seem to be a man of action. L: Yeah, well sometimes.
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Sprinkles
The construction guys are wearing neon hoodies and eating grilled cheese sandwiches, Sprinkled across the lawn like lobster buoys — “Confetti thrown from heaven,” you’d call them When I was on the boat and couldn’t sleep. If I went back now, Would I see you Eulogized in the harbor, Fêted with technicolor streamers? One of…
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Bargaining with God
Why would I want to believe (if I do believe at all) in a God who requires blind faith and has destructive ethics, for whom we must be violent in order to show devotion?
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Define Your Terms: Responding to Joshua Leifer’s Misguided Wall Street Allegations
The breadth and depth of financial services extends far beyond the scope of the causes of the financial crisis, and to identify a sector that comprises 9 percent of the economy or even any of the companies within that sector as wholly anything is a mistake.
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Work Life Balance
The Yale administration’s insistence on a student income contribution is reinforcing inequality along race and classlines.” So proclaims a new campaign launched at Yale, organized by the group Students Unite Now (SUN), aiming to eliminate the student income contribution for undergrads on financial aid. When I first heard of this movement, I thought their ambition seemed…
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Rememory
When the sodium lamps evaporate their tired stock, I wonder if walking home at night in the rain will still be such an ageless pleasure, a simple joy to watch you stagger up cement sidewalks, ringed in a corona of rusted lumen, a delight to watch it all hang in the balance, illuminated by an…
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Stay Tenacious
The report’s interpretation is not at odds with the Sotomayor speech, but doesn’t fully understand it, either.
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I Am Not the Übermensch
Why do we feel compelled to shut down anything that deviates even slightly from the social standards to which we have unwittingly chained ourselves?