Jerk du Soleil I’m a guy in my senior year of college. I cannot figure out how my roommate gets all the women he does. He’s a huge jerk to everyone, including women — the typical “bad boy.” He breaks any rule or law he can, doesn’t care who he hurts, and makes very little […]
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Free Will Astrology—Week of May 20
Don’t underestimate the power of minor, subtle, regular breakthroughs
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As you enter a phase when gradual, incremental progress is the best progress possible, I offer you the concluding lines of Taurus poet Adrienne Rich’s poem “From a Survivor”: “not as a leap, but a succession of brief, amazing movements, each one making possible the next.” I especially want to call […]
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Loot Actually & Weekend At Bernie Madoff’s
Men are not cryptographers, and they are particularly bad at translating women’s nonverbal signals
Loot Actually I’m envious of a friend whose boyfriend frequently does nice things for her: bringing her soup when she’s sick and surprising her with a weekend getaway and a pricey handbag she’d been coveting. My boyfriend is a nice, reliable, loving guy. I’d considered myself lucky to have him, but now I’m worried my […]
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Moral Panic Comix Presents “Wokester” Madness
Is your child aware of implicit bias, systemic racism and historical inequities that still affect the present? He or she may be “woke.”
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Free Will Astrology—Week of May 13
Your main job is to be receptive, and make sure you remember
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A fan once asked composer Johann Sebastian Bach about his creative process. He was so prolific! How did he dream up such a constant flow of new music? Bach told his admirer that the tunes came to him unbidden. When he woke up each morning, they were already announcing themselves in […]
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Dear In Headlights
The invite: Drinks, tunes, and executing the borderline attractive girl at dawn
Dear In Headlights I’m a girl in my 20s. I recently started dating a guy I’m falling in love with. He invited me to a party to meet his friends, and I’m nervous. He’s “objectively” more attractive than I am (6-foot-2, brawny, and incredibly handsome) and very successful. I’m attractive, but I see the looks […]
