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Friday, July 25, 2008 - Posts

  • Condom Controversy


    Your Friday firestorm watch: After NPR (NPR!) published an audio essay titled "Sex Without Condoms Is The New Engagement Ring" (which prompted a heated debate ) Moe Tkacik of Jezebel responded with a wistful ode to the joys of barebacking . "[H]ere is Read More...
  • Be My, Be My, Be My Yoko Ono


    Hmmm. What must Yoko Ono, herself a formidable artist and media force, think about her de facto daughter-in-law's performance art in New York magazine this week? Charlotte Kemp Muhl, apparently Sean Lennon’s girlfriend and Sarabeth DeLeury (a "philosopher Read More...
  • From the "I Didn't Get the Memo" Department


    Last year, when he was running for president, Rudy Giuliani explained his thinking about the courts. He complained that "civil litigation consumes 2.2 percent of America’s gross domestic product" and argued that "to reduce the impact of the trial lawyer Read More...
  • SWF Seeks Bright Lights, Big City


    This week's renewed discussions about women " opting out " of the work force — or being forced out — make me think of Joan Didion's 1967 essay " Goodbye to All That ." It's about her life in 1950s New York as a twentysomething, when the city emblematized Read More...
  • Slugging It Out Over Edwards


    On Thursday, the usual taping of Slate 's Political gabfest turned into a smackdown on the question we've been debating on "XX Factor"—should the National Enquirer have published its John Edwards story. Here's the resulting slugfest , from Slate sters Read More...
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