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drmabuse

  1. First, they came for the cigarette smokers. And I did not speak out because I quit cold turkey. Then they came for the soda drinkers...
  2. @ditzkoff The sucrose fiends are already organizing underground railroads to liberate soda jerks into the New Jersey pastures.
  3. The outlaw prospects of sneaking a large flask of Dr. Pepper into the movies seem a bit anticlimactic. Like downloading an illegal movie.
  4. Will Bloomberg's plan to ban large sodas put movie theaters out of business? HIgher ticket prices? More beer cinema? is.gd/yoUKzV
  5. Attention All Literary Peeps! @Dalkey_Archive putting out THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM GADDIS February 2013. 600 pages! Edited by Steven Moore.
  6. Minutes after I enjoyed an orange soda in the humidity, Madeline Miller won the Orange and someone got humid about it. is.gd/vqoVBr
  7. Unemployment recipients now have to upload CV, document job search, and show in person. What next? Internment camps? is.gd/iG1NKs
  8. National Bank forecasts 55% fall in per capita, 65% drop in currency value, 34% unemployment, if Greece exits euro. is.gd/pLJnGT
  9. "Hundreds of thousands of out-of-work Americans receiving their final unemployment checks sooner than they expected" is.gd/ohVSYt
  10. @MannyMike I'm very sorry to hear about that. Lots of good overqualified people in the same spot. My very best to you and your son.
  11. Dear Sock Puppet: Haven't you learned by now that you always leave a trail? And don't you have better things to do with your pathetic life?
  12. "Young, Privileged, and Applying for Food Stamps." Prepare for more juxtapositional essays like this in 2012-2013. is.gd/8BXCmg
  13. @sarahw @boyreporter Canadians now pulling Lebowski moves? "Hell, I can get you a foot by 3 o'clock this afternoon..with nail polish."
  14. @TimothyNoah1 Thanks for the kind shoutout, Tim. Great talking with you too. You made me keenly interested in Walter Reuther again. Cheers!
  15. New @batsegundo with @timothynoah1 on THE GREAT DIVERGENCE, labor, income inequality, overseas jobs, and the gender gap is.gd/DP8kyh
  16. ANIMAL FARM (1954, animated) available in its entirety (is.gd/yy6kQy), funded by the CIA (is.gd/XNidIw) (via @openculture)
  17. When "The Twitter 100" has only 18 women (is.gd/AA7sMD), what does this say about gender, lists, and clout? (is.gd/Iaz7oE)
  18. 2011: Real estate development accounted for 13% of China's GDP. 2012: Trouble in Beijing, even with housing control. is.gd/SrxHMG
  19. Neighborhood walkability as economic indicator? New study on DC urban areas (is.gd/t3daiF) More from Atlantic (is.gd/H9i7Fe)
  20. Seeing art through another's label, rather than discovering the wisdom and passion within, is like prioritizing a stripper over a lover.