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Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a…
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (847 words)
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Randa Jarrar: Imagining Myself in Palestine

On a recent trip to Israel, Randa Jarrar gets detained, denied entry, and sent to 'the Arab Room.' Image from Flickr via Rusty Stewart By Randa Jarrar Trouble began weeks before I boarded my flight…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4660 words)
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Eric Puchner Finds the Cooler Version of Himself - GQ May 2012

Not too long ago, I was sitting backstage at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and drinking beer with my doppelgänger, a 39-year-old singer-songwriter
SOURCE:www.gq.com
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1126 words)

Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome…
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (487 words)

Casino

Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons When Trisha comes to town we have to go out. She’s the bitterest soccer mom of all time and as part of her escape from home she wants to get drunk and complain…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4270 words)

My Son Went to Heaven, and All I Got Was a No. 1 Best Seller

At 3 years 10 months, Colton Burpo was a sunny child, a preacher’s son certain of his faith and his eternal fate. Then his appendix burst, and as doctors failed to figure out what was wrong with him,…
PUBLISHED: April 27, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (904 words)

My Son Went to Heaven, and All I Got Was a No. 1 Best Seller

At 3 years 10 months, Colton Burpo was a sunny child, a preacher’s son certain of his faith and his eternal fate. Then his appendix burst, and as doctors failed to figure out what was wrong with him,…
PUBLISHED: April 27, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (904 words)
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Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down: Books: GQ

The sun above Paris was a mid-July clementine. I bought copies of Le Monde and the Herald Tribune at a kiosk and climbed the stairs to my new office
SOURCE:www.gq.com
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1062 words)
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Motherfuckerland, Installment 13

(Art by spoon+fork.) Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the Roman Catholic Church I went to before my father freaked out, was also the place where I…
AUTHOR:Ed Lin
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2015 words)
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