May 2013
“Getting a mental illness diagnosis can feel like a reprieve. You’re not going...”
– nicely said.
“But women do this. We wank.
—The New Statesman”
– apparently brits do it too
“Right now, many of you are angry at the government, and no one is angrier than I...”
– quick: real or borowitz?
“Google Still Struggles To Explain Why Real People Should Care About Google+”
– no, not borowitz, forbes!
“From the moment that Aisha took to the stage, for Latvia, in the first...”
– anthony lane loves him some eurovision
“Google fans seem to eat this kumbaya stuff up, to really believe it.
—Daring...”
– google, of course, being the least kumbaya place on earth.
“T]he only thing these new options share is that Netflix’s customers loathe...”
– reed just has that magic touch.
“… Richwine had written a Harvard University dissertation in 2009 that said...”
– ah, the heritage foundation. lots of thinking in that think tank.
“A popular move is to slap the victim in the back of the head,” said Edward...”
– no comment needed.
“There was a huge outcry when Google announced the imminent death of Reader — but...”
– what google page is not.
“I have considerable confidence that the current generation of students at...”
– clark kerr, chancellor, uc berkeley, spring riots of 1956
“… so Agee immediately went to Tennessee on assignment, interviewed some...”
– alex carnevale is so damn good
“I think we can walk the narrow razor of white trash only so long.”
– cher.
“Home transforms Facebook from just a social network into something akin to a...”
– borowitz quoting zuckerberg
“She needs everything. She’s, uh, she’s is in a panic. I guess she’s been...”
– put yourself in her shoes
“Stephanopoulos asked Ramsey if he had noticed any signs that his neighbor could...”
– smart & observant
“In America, liars are always made to feel bad about ourselves, as if what we’re...”
– okay, it’s borowitz
“The turnout rate of black voters surpassed the rate for whites for the first...”
– historic moment, dudes.
“The former Enron chief executive, now known as inmate #29296-179 …”
– has a certain ring to it.
“… the Pentagon released a study estimating that 26,000 people in the...”
– people. hmm. of what gender?
“The police say the colonel approached a woman in a parking lot in Arlington near...”
– you gotta wonder about … the male. i know i do.
“If the man in charge for the Air Force in preventing sexual assault was alleged...”
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“» Bill Gates frustrated because Microsoft is irrelevant in mobile
I fixed the...”
– thank you mr moltz
“You’re blowing it with Fox News,” Jobs told him. “The axis today is not liberal...”
– steve the prescient. miss you.
“Apple gives a rat’s ass
—michael @ moapp, developer”
– yes. as in, yes, i agree.
“honey. have you seen the pressure cooker?”
– what tamerlan’s widow might have done, commenter suggests.
“… the vanished past, when “editors” paid “writers”...”
– shoot me now really.
“Facebook’s lobbying firms have been doing the dirty work of making sure...”
– surprise-no.
“Warren Buffett Joins Twitter, Can Fuck With Stock Prices In Real Time”
– not borowitz!
“AEG lawyers argued that Jackson didn’t perform 260 shows and make that...”
– cher? not but what she is cool.
““Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies,...”
– also r.t.f.o.
“Nuclear weapons have been the United States’ third-highest national priority...”
– right the fuck on.
“The free market is not very good at distributing compassion, nor is it...”
– gary greenbery in the new yorker
April 2013
“Attn: Millennials! It is not okay to text during job interviews or bring your...”
– hey, i didn’t raise ‘em.
“I wanted sex to be about empowerment and pleasure, not about Does this person...”
– ah, young women. still thoroughly co-opted, i see. keep trying!
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“It is probably best to keep your opinion on her general attractiveness to...”
– whoa! let’s not get radical!
“Most gentlemen these days have become accustomed to the idea that women are...”
– still, we progress.
“… the placenta had typically been given such little respect in the medical...”
– in 2013, mind you. women are still so icky.
“If your child likes—loves—you, the very love he bears you tears your heart out...”
– j. d. salinger to lilian ross, and yes, yes it does.
“The smoking in Salinger is well worth tracking.”
– janet malcom, who can write like crazy.
“Pity, if one may generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is...”
– howards end
“The act of running a marathon is supposed to be simple, individual …...”
– my god she’s good
“… whether the world’s allocations of sympathy are determined not by the...”
– zakaria, the tragedies of other places
“American tragedies somehow seem to occur in a more poignant version of reality,...”
– rafia zakaria in guernica
“It’s a good thing that I can hate myself in a deep and meaningful way without...”
– betsy lerner 