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In defense of texting

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The other day at the redoubtable Snap Fitness I overheard a conversation the likes of which I’d overheard many times before. It went something like this: x: If I want to talk to somebody, I just call them. y: I know. x: And most of the stuff people are texting, it’s just stupid. “I’m going [...]

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This goes a long way toward explaining everything

Saturday, October 4, 2008

You’ve seen the strange clusters so often you don’t wonder anymore why they’re strange. For instance: why do people who think government should be small get fighting mad at the implication that humans have caused global warming? And why do libertarians inevitably have beards? Or at least some kind of weird facial hair that looks [...]

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