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...guest list was no Harvard who’s who—this wasn’t the Porcellian, after all—but failed UC presidential candidate and Spee member Aaron Byrd ’05 was in attendance, along with pseudo-meta-movie star David Ingber ’07 of MTV’s The Real Cancun...
...this was only one of the many interludes making up “Life: A Guide for the (Politically) Perplexed (Convention Edition),” a meta-vaudeville-cum-commedia-dell’arte revue now completing the last of two weeks...
...truth of the matter is, as hard as they try to keep in character (and they try pretty hard), the Billionaires are only ironically for Bush. Far from being the obscenely wealthy’s first explicit lobbying group, they are a particularly meta feather in the left wing, seeking to present the excesses of the Bush administration with jokey, street-theatre tactics powered by firm liberalism. Adopting outsize Bush-loving personas, the Billionaires spout often-scripted lines about what they say—well, heavily imply—is a president who has catered dangerously to the top wealth...
...system in ways that tend to keep you out of the coffin, not put you in it. That's one of the findings that emerged from a study of 30 years of stress research published last week in Psychological Bulletin, a journal of the American Psychological Association. In a meta-analysis of more than 300 studies involving some 19,000 subjects, psychologists Gregory Miller at the University of British Columbia and Suzanne Segerstrom at the University of Kentucky combed through thousands of pages of research in search of common threads...
...artist rolls his eyes,’” he meta-narrated. “There’s a reason John [Kerry] has never taken his guitar out in front of me. He skis with me, because I’m bad,” Stills said...