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...this is hatred by association. If some guy was mean to a friend of mine, I will hate him, having never met him and knowing only that fact about him. If you have nothing else to go by, it makes sense, and it’s that easy. You tell me to hate somebody and if I trust your judgment, I’ll despise him, no problem...
...friendship, the pieces once so perfectly fitted like the puzzles we used to sit over on rainy afternoons, began to fall apart in junior high school. While we still remained committed to our academic interests, Christina’s interests gravitated towards art and theater, mine towards sports and boys, and we slowly took our places in the appropriate social groups. I levied the standard junior high school injustices on her, even though my strain of adolescent girl bitch syndrome tended towards selective inattention to—rather than vigorous persecution of—the decidedly uncool...
...show Cosmos. Hugging was becoming contagious. On screen, Carrie and Big were finding amour sous l’Eiffel, and Kim Cattrall’s clothes were coming off. It was the “end of an era,” as a friend of mine put it—and I realized I was privy to a moment of feminine bonding that I would rarely have the chance to witness with such proximity again...
Those who walk into their multiplexes wondering whether Gibson's film is anti-Semitic will find answers according to their standards. Mine was that it is, in a stock, caricatured way. Romans do the actual torturing, and a handful of "good" Jews seem to defy cliche, but the folks controlling the mob and forcing their overlord's seemingly pliable hand are the same band of swarthy miscreants that have wandered through Passion plays for centuries...
Many financial planners offer a fairly straightforward solution: three bank accounts--yours, mine and ours. Simply deposit the bulk of the family income into the "ours" account, which can be used to cover joint expenses, such as the mortgage. Then set aside a monthly allowance to be deposited in "his" and "hers" accounts, which can be spent as each partner pleases, no questions asked...