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Rules of Thumb
By:
Jim Courter
“Properly approached, it’s a viable alternative for getting cheaply from point A to point B, even if those points are on opposite sides of the country.” Jim Courter offers some rules of thumb for hitchhikers.
Mad Men
Believe It Or Not
By:
Ken Honeywell
“We’re not sure what’s real and what’s not, and it makes for an unsettling and ultimately confusing hour of television.” Ken Honeywell leans into the confusion.
Weird Beauty Rituals: Mustache Mayhem
By:
Sarah Murrell
“The first tool I reached for was a razor, and dispatched with the new growth with a few relatively clean sweeps. One week later, I was stricken with a horrific combination of an ingrown hair and a fresh mustache now made of short, lopped-off, obvious hairs.” Sarah Murrell fights the good fight.
A Modest Proposal to the Internet’s Self-Appointed Grammar Experts
By:
John King
“Dear friend, you’re not Hitler. You’re not even Goebbels or Himmler or any of those guys. You are a human being with thoughts and feelings, and to the best of my knowledge, you have never led or participated in a continental campaign to eradicate minorities you arbitrarily decided were bad.” John King has a proposition for you.
Mad Men
Stay Right Where You Are
By:
Ken Honeywell
“The CGC team is moving into SCDP’s offices, and everything is a mess. Boxes are stacked everywhere and people are stacked like boxes. Joanie’s just stacked.” Ken Honeywell has the latest Mad Men news.
Feminist Gift Shopping is Man’s Work
By:
Con Chapman
“I went to college in the seventies, when a mildly insensitive comment by a male was often rewarded with verbal and physical abuse by gangs of marauding feminists.” Con Chapman has some gift-giving advice.
Mad Men
Reunited (And It Feels So Good)
By:
Ken Honeywell
“That’s the trouble we’ve wandered (weindered?) into so far in Season 6. Mad Men, for the first time ever, has seemed flat.” Ken Honeywell‘s not buying (some of) it.
Weird Beauty Rituals: Indoor Tanning
By:
Sarah Murrell
“Indoor tanning, in my opinion, is the closest you can get to actually staring down the barrel of a gun as it presses a molten lead round through your cranium, but slowed down by about a million percent.” Sarah Murrell apparently used to like that.
Mad Men
Here Comes the Flood
By:
Ken Honeywell
“The loss of a great man leaves a great void that someone must fill; terrorist bombings and school shootings and weather disasters can inspire their survivors–I include all of us–to try to prevent them from happening again.” Ken Honeywell says “The Flood” is a nice return to form.
Rape Culture: Is It In You?
By:
David Tomaloff
“Dairy cows are kept perpetually pregnant to ensure an efficient means of productivity. The method in which this is achieved might surprise many people.” David Tomaloff suggests you think about your food.