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Can I Listen to Chris Brown with a Clear Conscience?
New piece up today at Role/Reboot on how to consume entertainment ethically, or how to decide it’s just too exhausting and go back to enjoying your Chris Brown club jamz. This essay was inspired by a...
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Last Thoughts on the Olympics
True Confession: Contrary to the title of this post, these will probably not be my last thoughts on the Olympics. I think about them a lot. Katniss reps District 12 This is our first Olympics since...
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Female figures are, by definition, “feminine.”
Let’s take a break from our regularly scheduled rape programming today and talk about something else. Back with more rape news, rape commentary, rape apology, rape debate, and...
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Sunday Scraps 71
1. GLOBAL SEXUALITY: New York Times report on the global domination of Cosmo and how cover to cover, mag to mag, the content shifts to accommodate cultural norms from Kazakhstan to Singapore. 2....
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Monday Scraps 73
1. AUTHORS: Philip Roth attempts to correct a misinformed wikipedia article about his own work via the New Yorker. Hilarity sort of ensues. 2. FOOTBALL: Chris Kluwe joins the ranks of my favorite NFL...
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Sunday Scraps 74
1. WRITING: Junot Diaz has a new book. The Atlantic wonders if Diaz, whose characters are consistently horrible to women, can write a sexist character without writing a sexist book. 2. SPORTS: With...
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Why You Should Be Reading Grantland
If you’re not an ESPN-watching dude, or you don’t have very many ESPN-watching dude friends, you might be missing out. The first person to send me something from Grantland, an online magazine on sports...
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Sunday Scraps 85
1. SPORTS: This Charles Siebert piece for the New York Times Magazine about the rigors and stresses of trying to make an NFL team is fascinating. How much do you want it? And how much are you willing...
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The Best Things I Read on the Internet: Sports Edition
I like sports a lot. I like pretending to invest in my fantasy football team and then forgetting to set my line-up and accidentally starting three players on bye week and two who are nursing busted...
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Sunday Scraps 100
1. GAYS: In the 2010 census, one county in the US reported 0 gay people. None. Zilch. Nada. Explore Franklin County with CNN and find out if the census is true. Hint: Doubtful. 2. SCOTUS: A little...
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S(M)onday Scraps 103
1. HISTORY: Imagine you’re 23 and you’re heading off to WWII as a nurse. What do you pack? Slate‘s new history blog has got you covered with a real recommended packing list. Don’t forget your homemade...
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Is This How Riots Happen?
Chicago won the Stanley Cup last night. If I hadn’t been watching the game (pure accident, as the concert I was supposed to be at got rained out), I would have known of the victory by the non-stop...
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The Problems with “Strong is the New Skinny”
The line from that George Saunders piece I posted on Monday that’s really sticking with me is “Err on the side of kindness.” It seems so obvious, as far as life philosophies go, but the simplicity of...
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S(Tuesday) Scraps 109
1. HOOPS: Bill Simmons, who I generally love, gets rightfully reamed by college basketball player Wayne Washington when Simmons refers to his dreads as “stinky.” 2. AUTHORS: Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep,...
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Even Skinny Girls Deserve Compassion
As you may or may not know, I began yoga teacher training a few weeks ago. This is part of an ongoing “plan” (I wish it were as organized as a plan) to diversify my income, learn more about yoga, give...
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The 17 Hottest World Cup Players with Freckles*
*This is not a list of sexy soccer players. Half of you are very disappointed that there is not actually a gallery of freckled soccer stars, and the other half of you read the title and were like… is...
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The ESPN Body Issue & #HuskyTwitter
Last week for Role/Reboot I wrote about the annual ESPN The Magazine’s “Body Issue”, which features naked portraits of lots of people who can do some crazy powerful/graceful/coordinated shit with their...
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