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HOW DARE THIS WOMAN (possibly be attempting, it’s not certain) PROVIDE A BETTER LIFE FOR HER CHILD? She should’ve done it the proper way—by having ancestors that committed genocide against the people already living here. Read more

Another reason given for rejection was that use of the word “period” could lead to children asking their parents what a period is. Read more

But would they ban toilet paper ads? What’s being advertised is the product to handle excretions, without depictions of the fluids themselves. If they ban this then I guess they can’t allow toilet paper, nose tissues, mucinex etc...
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It’s the worlds best selling baby pacifier/toy (I’ve no numbers to back this up :) Read more

Pinterest: come for the crafts and recipes, stay for the self loathing and inadequacy. Read more

UGH. EUPHONY, PEOPLE. Read more

No, the green thing. I must admit I thought it was for....another purpose until I saw what it actually was. Read more

I think Leon is referring to the phallic-shaped spoon cocoon. Read more

Where are the two folding knives? I thought you had to have at least two folding knives (and maybe a small, expensive flashlight) to get featured as an EDC bag.

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Or for-profit colleges..... Read more

Definitely a few things missing: Read more

Serious question: Why can’t the proprietor just ask the racist ass-clown to not return. “Sir, I’m sorry that our values and yours don’t match. I’m sure that another vendor would be more to your liking. Please have a nice day...” I get it—you depend on customers for your livelihood. But these people will never learn… Read more

Ballard Spahr does millions of dollar of business for the charter school scam. KJ is their point-person / mole in getting clueless local governments to give away their schools to hustlers and con-artists (Ballard Spahr’s paying clients). David Pittinsky claimed to not even know about his firm’s work for charter… Read more

In a Mexican restaurant. Read more

Agreed, Pynchon is not that bad, nor is DFW, or the post-modern movement at large for that matter. Actually, I’m glad both exist in the American lexicon... I just get a tingle in my spine when I hear the kind of male-dominated reverence for ‘intellectual’, ‘hard’ or ‘difficult’ reading... especially when it comes out… Read more

Yeah, well... I also really like DFW essays and short stories (some of the few laugh-out-loud funny pieces I’ve ever read were by him), but if I have to go to one more literary reading where all the dudes are trying to write like him and all the chicks are trying to be the next Sylvia Plath, I might stick my head in… Read more