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Latest research on love: we are beasts.

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IT’S VALENTINE’S DAY AND WE ARE IN A RUSH TO GET OUR HEART BROKE. A super-fast summary of the latest research on what we look for in a mate, why we fall for that person, and why, dammit, we always … Continue reading

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Flash!

Fossella Sinking: Vito Fossella, the bull-necked pretty boy fighting to retain his Staten Island congressional seat, has just received a C+ rating from The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association, IAVA, a delicious development considering Fossella bases his reelection hopes on … Continue reading

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Darcy

Finished Pride and Prejudice for the 2nd time.
Again a chore.
Most of it I wasn’t into. I was barely into the last twenty pages. The problems of two, young people in love—one filthy rich, the other comparatively well-off—misunderstanding each other, seems painfully trivial.
My real problem with the book, however, is two-fold:
First, Darcy, the hero, is an insufferable phony.
Second, I cannot believe that chicks fall for him.
Darcy is a jerk. Three reasons why: Continue reading

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