Dec 192008
- Terrorism That’s Personal by Nicholas Kristof. An NY Times op-ed that you’ll likely never forget.
- What They Hate About Mumbai by Suketu Mehta. Another beautiful and poignant piece from the NY Times.
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Bad Sex in Fiction Prize Awarded for 2008: The winner includes this gem of a line:
I find myself gripping his ears and tugging at the locks curling over them, beside myself, and a strange animal noise escapes from me as the mounting, Wagnerian crescendo overtakes me.
Maybe it’s just me, but gripping someone’s ears during sex sounds like a prelude to a visit to the emergency room. (Via The Hoondat Report.)
- Wonder Woman and the Phallic Menace. (What can I say?!?)
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Ranking Countries by Promiscuity. The US isn’t very highly ranked, despite being The Great Satan.
