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"Job: factchecker
Found it: I was an intern at a magazine, and their factchecker was overwhelmed by a fact-filled article. She asked me to help and showed me the basics. I got additional jobs through networking.
I worked freelance at various..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hazyjane, ifjuly
6 days ago
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"This is an honest question, so please don't take it as snark - in response to all of the information presented about the societal costs of Down Syndrome, can someone enumerate the benefits?
No. It's a bizarre -- and offensive -- way of looking at..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by Jpfed, onoclea, The Bellman, small_ruminant, dabitch, The Gooch, lizzicide, goo, ThePinkSuperhero, Mavri, roll truck roll, spaceman_spiff, rtha, zarq, misha
2 weeks ago
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"Tehanu: "Caring for your own child is babysitting now?"
Someone owes me a whole lot of back pay." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by echolalia67
Last month
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"nicolas léonard sadi carnot: "Counterpoint to the Bechdel test: There are no women at all in The Thing, and it´s the best movie of the last fifty years."
That's not a counterpoint. The test isn't supposed to prove if a movie is good or..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by peacheater, The Bellman
Last month
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"Blazecock Pileon: "To limit one's intake of art on the basis of identity politics seems silly."
Identity politics? It's not identity politics. It's wanting to see movies with female characters, that's all...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
Last month
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"The Bellman: "Am I too late to the thread to discuss the incredibly odd rumor that the new kid may not be hers at all, but her daughter's?"
Not at all. What an excellent rumor...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by phrontist, gsteff, moxiedoll
Last month
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"When I got fitted for a bag at Courierware, they told me the strap goes above the boobs. (If you're wearing it while biking, that is.)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
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"Oh, man, this sounds good. HUITRES FARCIES CASENAVE, from the same James Beard book. Mix shallots, parsley, chervil, and butter; top each oyster with a spoonful of the mixture; add salt and pepper; and bake on a bed of rock salt in a 475 degree oven..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
Last month
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"hydrophonic, quoting someone else: "Call your local OB department and ask what to do if you think that your water has broken. You’ll be advised to seek an immediate hands-on examination by an obstetrician. The baby will be placed on a monitor to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by konolia
Last month
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"saffry: "I sometimes feel guilty that I haven't taken my young kids to do a family portrait like so many of my co-workers do. Feeling much better about that now."
What are you saying? That my children are going to resent this some day?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by fiercecupcake, Locative
Last month
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"Trying to stop the derail: the fetish isn't for redheads. That's just the convoluted example the OP used, as he or she didn't want to say what the real fetish is.
(My money's on spiders.)..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by arcticwoman, blueberry, roger ackroyd
Last month
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"I am not from the West Coast, am not ignorant about pizza, and lived in Queens for years and years so pffft to you and your icepick. I'm with Marcella Hazan: "Pizza is made for improvisation and brooks no dogmas about its toppings." --..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by schyler523, vytae, h00py, BrotherCaine
Last month
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Books like "The a Monster at the End of This Book"?
favorited 16 times, recently by alyxstarr, mausburger, safetyfork, KathyK, ifjuly, rmd1023, orchidarea, bigdamnnerd, Twicketface, czechmate, featherboa, eritain, lottie, whatisish, thebrokenmuse, winston
Last month
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"My guests suggested telling my landlords that I didn't break the window, but came home to find it in such a state due to someone throwing a stone or a large stick at it in my absence.
That would be a lie. Your parents probably raised you better..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
2 months ago
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Waffle, meet Splasher. Splasher, this is Waffle.
favorited 33 times, recently by mike3k, librarina, Squid Voltaire, hototogisu, ooga_booga, babybuns, jack_mo, lisawin, palimpsest, slyrabbit, rongorongo, Turtles all the way down, MikeKD, Tesseractive, pointilist, surenoproblem, flod logic, vsync, Afroblanco, unmake, Waitwhat, The Bellman, hecho de la basura, agregoli, lysistrata, limeonaire, spaceman_spiff, BrotherCaine, Richard Daly, es_de_bah, etaoin, jjb, interrobang
2 months ago
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"But I'm still an outsider; I can feel it.
EVERYBODY FEELS THIS WAY." [
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favorited 28 times, recently by cass, khaibit, Twicketface, ms.v., macinchik, Koko, ebee, RedEmma, JaredSeth, zazerr, lioness, andraste, carrot, Deathalicious, rtha, JDHarper, nasreddin, jacalata, The Shiny Thing, asras, ImproviseOrDie, tomboko, loiseau, Houstonian, b33j, Punctual, forforf, milarepa
2 months ago
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"There are many people in this country — including, I’ll bet, many Googlers — who believe that employer-provided day care, at affordable prices, ought to be like health insurance, a benefit that every company provides as a matter of course.
And..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by tehloki, muzzlecough, gingerbeer, The Bellman, Monochrome, batmonkey, pyrex, dw
3 months ago
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"I thought the Bellman did a great job of explaining the difference between theft and copyright infringement in that thread -- and he did it in a calm, noncondescending way...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by josher71, Popular Ethics, jtron
3 months ago
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"See, they're in Hawaii! And that's political satire because... um..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dhartung
3 months ago
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"I like the recipe in the Greens cookbook. Nothing fancy, just delicious. You could look in it for the full instructions (which I am too lazy to type out), but the ingredients are:
1 egg
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 to 1 tsp. Dijon mustard
1 cup light..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sunshinesky
3 months ago
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"*sniff* It's just my allergies, that's all. *sniff* Or maybe I have something in my eye." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
3 months ago
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"Roald Dahl's short stories. Tales of the Unexpected, Kiss Kiss, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar... So creepy, so disturbing. Why oh why did my parents let me read those at such a young age?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ifjuly
3 months ago
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"You'll have a lot to keep straight. How old you are, how old you are compared to your siblings, what year you were born, what year you graduated from high school, what music was popular when you were in college, who you voted for the first time you..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by phrontist, marble
3 months ago
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"My kids have an Ice Weasel Anne (my sister) and an Ice Weasle Rebecca (her wife), also known as Anne Weasel and Rebecca Weasel, or the Ice Weasels." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Richard Daly, Greg Nog
4 months ago
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"Just say "yeah, we get that a lot" in a "huh, that's not very interesting" tone and change the subject.
(The guy who did our laundry used to say that to my husband and me all the time -- like, every week. Eventually I told him..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by artifarce
4 months ago
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"She flirted with you. You liked it. That's all. There is no secret acupressure point for releasing horniness." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Soulbee
4 months ago
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"I'm sure you could get some Bostonian to fill out the application.
I'm all for sticking it to The Man. The Boston Public Library is not The Man." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tachikaze
4 months ago
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"I was 25 and decided to move across the country, from Washington State to Boston. In the few months I had remaining before the move, I met a great guy. We started going out, always knowing that we were going to break up when I moved.
That spring I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Deathalicious, The1andonly
4 months ago
