The Tell-Tale R

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Brunch art

Taken at Pond House Cafe

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What is this I don't even

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Northampton Floodgate

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I know it's Mother Jones, but seriously—what's one to think of businesses/organizations that claim to be laissez faire and then run crying to the courts when someone get uncomfortably close to their trademark?

Live by the free market, die by the free market. No excuses, play like a champion.

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I bet working at The Gap is worse than my job.

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Nightlife

It's a lot less interesting when the world is full of girls you're not allowed to make out with.

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"You have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that they are each worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners, but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets."

An unspecified fund manager in Michael Lewis' outstanding piece "Wall Street on the Tundra". Well worth a read/re-read in the current news cycle.

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Beer commercials have been in decline since the late 80s, probably because The Simspons really took the genre as far as it could go.

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Is it just me, or is America's Most Trusted news trying to compensate for something?

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Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably are aware that we live in a brand-new world of mobile apps.

A recent email. If the author had been auditioning, I would have stood up and said "Thanks—seen enough. We'll let you know."

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Eastern Iowa Airport (CID) in miniature.

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Double Macchiato

Taken at Java House

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c. 1989. Guess which one is me.

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I mean, every argument against sports fandom can also be made against religion. They are both essentially forms of worship.

Except, of course, that the Duke Blue Devils basketball team is an empirically verifiable entity, and that crowd support can be shown to have a positive effect on its performance.

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Skewed projection is skewed.

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#magichat #Friday

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Elmo tells it like it is.