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...same people who speak to children in baby voices and pat pregnant women's bellies without asking permission. Besides, even if your cat could speak, and it happened to ask for a cheeseburger, why would it spell "cheez" with a "Z?" Why? It's one thing to pretend that your cat can talk, but it's another thing to pretend that it has a debilitating speech impediment. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russian Lolcats | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...know what is funny? Pretending your pet lives in Communist Russia. Hilarious (unless you once lived in Communist Russia). You could take a picture of your cat eating cat food and pretend it was dinnertime at the gulag. Or if you have an unusually small kitten, you could joke about robbing it of its childhood and training it as an Olympic gymnast. But where would one find a website dedicated to such a strange, esoteric joke? If only one existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russian Lolcats | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...parsonage luncheon (“The Reverend couldn’t help me prepare, though I’m sure lost souls take precedence over peppered pork!”). But I knew her dumb pity was creeping up. She would mention Trent, and what would happen? Would I pretend to be all torn up? Or would I absorb the shot with a smile and say excuse me I need to get out of this humidity it just trashes my hair. But if I dashed inside there’d only be more pity eyes, they?...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction Part Two | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...deserve. You deserve to be loved”). He has no excuse for Sandra, though, who professes to Leonard over chocolate pudding, “I want to take care of you. I feel like I understand you. You’re different. You don’t pretend to be something you’re not. You don’t have to worry about anything. Don’t have to be embarrassed.” And then Leonard responds (I am not making this up): “You know...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two Lovers | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...mortgage program that is much more than the previous Administration did and a bank plan that, however flawed, at least has the benefit of not having another bailout of the banks. The glass is half full. But for each one, there are some flaws ... the bank plan wants to pretend that the government is half pregnant with the banks. The debate is between partial and full nationalization, not between nationalization or no nationalization. Go and do the job and do it right by taking over the banks and restructuring them and selling them back to the private sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roubini Sees More Economic Gloom Ahead | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

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