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This is exactly why ironic dating is impossible. It escalates suddenly, and you find yourself married to a man you’d only approached because your friends thought his ears looked funny...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Who Sank The Courtship? | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...changed. We can’t pretend we still live in those halcyon days when your parents arranged your whole romantic life for you and the only things you had to worry about were catching polio or that your doctor would use too many leeches. We have to find our own ways of making choices, instead of quietly contracting dysentery to escape unfavorable matches the way we used...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Who Sank The Courtship? | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

However cynical and even “ironically detached” our generation has become, we still cling to the notion that somewhere out there, maybe lurking in the dark behind some building, is the right person for everyone. But how do you find this person? As David Brooks and the FMLers might argue, the system we have going doesn’t seem to be doing an optimal job, and it’s certainly running up our texting bills. Out of this frustration emerges the hook up culture, where that old saying about cows and milk has been...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Who Sank The Courtship? | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...find that people really get into seeing all the movies in sequence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROVING REPORTER: "Python-a-thon" | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...practices, so criticizing you for something else might be like kicking a lame dog. Everyone can see you’re beleaguered as it is. However, sometimes it’s necessary to kick that lame dog, no matter how trustworthy a companion it has been. If you suddenly find it on your chest as you sleep and it won’t get off, you might have to remove it forcefully. And you, UHS, are weighing me down...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein | Title: Ill Will | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

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