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...guess it was personal and also societal. Personally, a trickle of insults became a flood. A skirt that had been just fine all of a sudden seemed inappropriately short. A liquor store clerk asked for ID and then laughed as if he had made a funny joke. I ran into a suspiciously fresh-faced friend and, when she confessed to Botox, I wanted to yell, "Hey, that's no fair!" Then I wanted to get some for myself. I thought I'd crossed that invisible but really visible line into middle age. And as a longtime journalist and social observer...
...York Stock Exchange, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was asked how much more credit crisis is left to play out. "Nobody really knows," he said. "Clearly we're in the panic stage of unreasonable behavior." At the Connecticut offices of UBS, nervous colleagues passed around a joke about why the market was like a divorce but worse: "I've lost half my net worth, and I still have my wife." Off-color humor for off-color times...
...York based band Priestbird, Devendra Banhart of Devendra Banhart fame, Noah Georgeson, Human Giant humorist Aziz Ansari, and Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti. Moretti, Ansari, and Georgeson may not, however, actually be in the band. Some have called their new and first album “Surfing” a joke album, and some have termed it inspired, both of which could be wrong. Or right. To focus on issues such as these, though, would be missing the point. Megapuss isn’t really bothered by evaluations or categorizations like these; the same should go for those listening to their...
...remark about the 9th Amendment when taking questions from the audience during a lecture at the Law School. But Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz, who introduced Kevorkian, argued that the 9th Amendment is an important component of the Bill of Rights. “It was not a joke to [James] Madison, and it should not be a joke to a justice of the United States Supreme Court,” Dershowitz said. In his speech, Kevorkian called the Supreme Court “nincompoops.” “We need a system of deliberation by wise...
...More recently, though, Obama's big bet on Missouri doesn't seem like such a joke. The latest St. Louis Post-Dispatch poll has Obama pulling within 1 point of McCain, and a new TIME/CNN poll has the Democratic nominee actually leading his Republican rival by 1 point among likely voters. The increasing tightness of the race - even if it's part of a national wave spurred by a focus on the faltering economy - shows why every doorbell, and every person ringing them, can make a world of difference in an election...