| Notes from a Sickly Sojourn |
[08 Jun 2015|12:30pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/life/doonan/2015/06/summer_cold_avoidance_advice_on_resisting_sickness_during_vacations_and.html In the late swinging 1960s, a trendy boutique opened on London’s Kings Road named Granny Takes a Trip. In the last couple of weeks I thought a lot about that mythical granny and her far-out trip. Having reached the grannyish age when folks elect to blow their wads on a buffet-laden round-the-world cruise, my sister Shelagh and I decided the time had come to take a trip, a big, fat, gay, Wild West, hippie-dippie trip of a lifetime. The participants? Moi, my husband Jonny, Shelagh, and her wife Anna.
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| Why ClickHole Is the Best Thing on the Internet |
[08 Jun 2015|04:27pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/06/clickhole_best_stories_the_funniest_pieces_from_the_onion_s_internet_parody.html This week I profiled ClickHole, the Onion spinoff dedicated to satirizing the social web. I had a good time hanging out in the company’s Chicago offices and talking to its young staff about what they do, but one particular pleasure of writing the piece was going back through nearly a year’s worth of ClickHole pieces and rereading my favorites. (The one-year anniversary of the site’s launch is June 12.) Here are 10 pieces so great that they convinced me to write that “the way Playboy embodied the voice of 1965, and Ms. embodied the voice of 1972, and Spy embodied the voice of 1988, ClickHole embodies the voice of our own misbegotten era.” These pieces perfectly embody the ClickHole ideal: They are hilarious, and they make me feel terrible. Enjoy?!
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| Why ClickHole Is the Best Thing on the Internet |
[08 Jun 2015|04:27pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/06/clickhole_best_stories_the_funniest_pieces_from_the_onion_s_internet_parody.html This week I profiled ClickHole, the Onion spinoff dedicated to satirizing the social web. I had a good time hanging out in the company’s Chicago offices and talking to its young staff about what they do, but one particular pleasure of writing the piece was going back through nearly a year’s worth of ClickHole pieces and rereading my favorites. (The one-year anniversary of the site’s launch is June 12.) Here are 10 pieces so great that they convinced me to write that “the way Playboy embodied the voice of 1965, and Ms. embodied the voice of 1972, and Spy embodied the voice of 1988, ClickHole embodies the voice of our own misbegotten era.” These pieces perfectly embody the ClickHole ideal: They are hilarious, and they make me feel terrible. Enjoy?!
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| SCOTUS Tries to Stay Neutral on Jerusalem, Passports, and Foreign Policy |
[08 Jun 2015|10:19pm] |
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/06/zivotofsky_v_kerry_a_big_supreme_court_win_for_presidential_powers.html In a set of opinions that spans more than 90 pages, took more than seven months to write, references places from Liberia to Cuba to Taiwan to Montreal to Hispaniola, and then ranges across U.S. history from Alexander Hamilton to George W. Bush, the Supreme Court’s opinion in a much-awaited presidential powers case, Zivotofsky v. Kerry, proves that when it comes to frolicking in the deep end of text, history, and statutory construction, nobody does it like a justice does it. By a 6–3 margin, with Justice Anthony Kennedy joining with the court’s liberals and—in part—Justice Clarence Thomas, the court found that Section 214(d) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act was unconstitutional.
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