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...politicians seeking your vote in two different ways: their politics and their character. Do you share his or her political principles? And does he or she stick to them as new issues arise? Without some kind of ideology, the politician is asking voters to buy a pig in a poke...
...rope-skipping skills for the film, says the same thing used to happen to him while he was growing up. "I got teased all the time when I was younger," says Taylor, 20, who went on to become a world champion rope jumper in 2004. Now when people poke fun at him, Taylor just takes out his rope and wows them with his gravity-defying jumps, flips and tricks. "I know that jump roping is so cool," he says, adding that most people realize the same thing after seeing what...
...oddest secret of Tomlinson's success; picture a player for the ages watching cards bounce off a fan like a toddler bored out of his mind. But poke fun at your peril if you're an opponent. The humble star, 27, in his sixth year as a pro, smoked the single-season touchdown record, needing just 13 games (out of 16) to pass the previous mark, 28 touchdowns, set by Seattle's Shaun Alexander last year. (Tomlinson finished with 31.) He broke Paul Hornung's 46-year-old record for most points scored in a season and finished the year...
...constructed. It’s malleable. Its boundaries shift so often that groups once categorically relegated to non-white status, groups highly racialized—like the Irish, the Italians, the Germans—are now firmly in the white camp. I’ll still poke fun at it, just as I jest about my father’s English-language faux pas. But her whiteness, or lack of it, is really non-negotiable. It’s whatever her heart and mind tell her, and that’s the way racial ascription should be: bottom...
Still worse than that banality, some photo albums consist entirely of photos of the creator. A girl I vaguely know recently uploaded 40 or so photos she had taken of herself in an album she entitled, “Shameless Vanity.” A nice effort to poke fun at yourself, sweetheart, but we all know better—you didn’t need to point out the shameless vanity...