Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose

Okay, the fact that they held an essay contest for schoolchildren to decide what color the new CTA line should be is one of those fucked-up Chicago things that makes me love it here so much. And the fact that they chose pink makes me never, ever want to leave.
The hostility toward the whole fucking [...]

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Man, I love every word out of Karen Armstrong’s mouth.

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WHEN are they going to stop making shit like this? In PINK, no less?
This is what they’re aiming at boys. And this. Toy trains, sports–you know, things that are FUN. The girls, however, get to practice their fucking laundry skills.
I realize that my love for Pottery Barn is totally unhealthy and wrong, any way you [...]

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So Calabasas, California, has apparently become the first town to fulfill Denis Leary’s “in your apartment, under a blanket, with all the lights out” prophecy. Awesome.
And if that weren’t enough, Texas is cracking down on people who get drunk… in bars. A charge that amounts to, as Slate put it, “Drinking While Intoxicated.” Brilliant.
In a [...]

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Goddammit. I just read the letters in response to this, and I don’t know whether to cry or put my fist through a wall.
As I just said to Spillah, the beginning of the real, no-fucking-around “Is Hillary Electable?” debate hurts my heart. My gut says she’s probably not electable. And under ordinary circumstances, I make [...]

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Just wrote this to Arkansas Meg, who always gets me thinky:
I read an article somewhere recently suggesting that forgiveness is overrated. All the self-help books tell us we absolutely have to forgive, but maybe we just don’t. I don’t even remember how the article concluded, but my conclusion is this: maybe there’s an important distinction [...]

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I met my first serious boyfriend at Random House of Canada, where he was a research assistant on a book that eventually died out, but would have looked something like this. His job was, essentially, to find out about weird shit.
In the course of his inquiries into weird shit, he discovered that many South Americans [...]

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I’ve always had a perverse fondness for non-fiction books about human behavior and relational shit that I have no real reason to read. I own books on sociopathy, cult mind control, racism, suicide, motherhood, and marriage, despite having no direct experience with any of the above. And the granddaddy of all books I find totally [...]

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“Two More Women Die from Abortion Pill” says the headline on Comcast’s homepage.
Two more women? Wow, how many thousands have died that I didn’t know about? I’d better read the article!

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The headline on the Comcast homepage: “FBI Warns of Possible Terrorist Attack.”
The headline of the actual article (um, in Sports): “FBI Warns of Possible NCAA Tourney Threat.”
The very first sentence:
“WASHINGTON - The FBI said Friday there is no specific, credible threat of a terror attack…”

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