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Cling-Wrapture

Every once in a while, you manage to discover something on your own that makes you feel like a genius and an idiot all at once. Today I learned how to use cling-wrap.

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A New Purpose

Admittedly, I don’t know when I’ll have to make a tourniquet in the near future (the use which came to mind during the whole process), but at the very least I won’t be scrambling for something to wipe up with in the kitchen.

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Another Breakup? Pull Up Your Socks

Relationships are tough. I’m trying to learn from every one that fails. Like this one.

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Squirrel Fishing

What I like best about this is that the “experiment” is taking place at Harvard. If this is what our best minds are coming up with, there may be hope after all.

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ASK and Ye Shall Receive

Seeing my neighbours is a reminder of how little we know about the people who live so close. How little we care, maybe. Apartments are amazing experiments in social behaviour: cram dozens of random strangers together, and watch how hard they work to ignore each other.

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What is the US Fighting For Again?

They are threatening to declare war against Iraq because they suspect Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

They are NOT threatening to declare war against North Korea, who they KNOW has weapons of mass destruction.

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How to Stop Drunk Driving

The slideshow is part of an ad campaign against drunk driving. The images are graphic, and watching the story unfold on my screen, I had to fight sobbing.

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Unveiled

Perhaps no one is spending a moment to speculate about my heritage. Or better yet, maybe that man looks up between bites and wonders, “What is that Jew doing in a crepe shop?”

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11:11

When I looked up at the clock on the stove tonight, it was 11:11. Time to make a wish.

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Ludigrass

It’s not even the end of January, but the air has already begun to unfurl its loins and make plans for the weekend.

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