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...development wreaked more havoc on Eminem's hateability than all the rest: amazingly, someone coarsened the culture without him. As Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen advanced the art of provocation, broadening it from Eminem's preferred taboos of sex and class to the mocking of all Americans (by a foreigner, no less) for being naive enough to believe their own mythology. Baron Cohen was darker, funnier and way more misanthropic than Eminem - which is how it goes with cultural instigators. They poke, we react; they poke again, we react a little less, until eventually someone with a sharper stick...
What surprised you most about the Klingon and Esperanto conferences that you attended? With Esperanto conferences, it was the level of fluency. I sort of thought it would be like watching a video of "Chapter 1: Dialogue" in a language class, like "Where is the library?" But it was very fluid, like watching someone speak Spanish. So seeing that happen convinced me that it's a real language; it's not people playing dress-up with a different vocabulary. You can speak textbook Esperanto or you could be especially Esperanto by using an unusual word as a verb just because...
...year titled Losing Mum and Pup (Twelve; 251 pages). Christopher--as we will call him to avoid muddling our Buckleys--is best known as a comic novelist (Thank You for Smoking, Supreme Courtship), and in taking on such a tragic, personal subject, he's punching well above his weight class. But his sense of the absurd turns out to be oddly well suited to observing the numerous medical and existential indignities associated with dying, as well as to describing the bizarre, outsize creatures who raised...
Easier Awards. American Airlines is making it easier to redeem frequent flyer miles. You can now buy different types of award tickets or classes of travel on the same trip. So, for example, you can save miles on an economy-class MileSAAver ticket (more restrictive but cheaper) on the flight out, but purchase the costlier and more flexible first-class AAnytime ticket on the return. You can even book a one-way award flight without having to pay the equivalent of a round-trip ticket. Check out the new booking calendar on AA.com, which tells you how many miles...
...Psychology 980e. Interpersonal Relationships — The class will cover topics like "trust, intimacy, support, satisfaction, conflict resolution, betrayal, and toxicity." Wait, repeat that last...