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The Life Cycle of a Crazy Idea
A GOP Congresswoman says wildfires are caused by Jewish space lasers. The response:
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Free Will Astrology—Week of February 4
It’s time to celebrate your gorgeous idiosyncrasies and eccentricities
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Alice Walker writes, “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. In the coming weeks, I hope you’ll adopt that way of thinking and apply it to every aspect of your perfectly imperfect body and mind […]
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Blarenaked Ladies & Dad Man Walking
Leaving some mystery as to whether you’re all in will make you seem more desirable
Blarenaked Ladies Whenever I feel like I click with someone, I want to be upfront and tell them I like them right away. My friends all say this is dating suicide (and that’s how it’s been working out for me). But if I’m looking for emotional honesty in a partner, shouldn’t I lead with it? […]
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Free Will Astrology—Week of January 28
If you want, have a series of appointments with the fantastic, the marvelous, and the outstanding
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “We all want everything to be okay,” writes author David Levithan. “We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.” To that mediocre manifesto, I reply, okay. I accept that it’s true for many […]
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Ancestry Dot Con
If you have to give a 40-year-old kid a home in your basement, the kid should at least be yours
Ancestry Dot Con I’m a single woman in my mid-30s with an older half brother I haven’t seen in 20 years. He started calling me several years ago, and we speak sporadically (always instigated by him). He’s married and refers to me as the aunt to his four children (whom I’ve never met). Recently, he […]
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This Modern World—week of January 28
Life in the Liminalverse – The quest for unity
