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...from middle school, so I imposed a rule: she and her friends could recount their entire bad day without comment from me but only after I had heard three good things that had happened to each of them. Some days the best I heard was, "Well, lunch didn't suck." But I can attest to the long-term effects. For the next three years, our ride home was far more pleasant. And when my now 21-year-old daughter calls to talk about things going wrong, she always brightens her mood by relating something good. Happiness is a habit best...
...that build up its mounded surface. It reminds me of a giant fungus-—if I reached out and touched it, I don’t think I would be surprised if its surface was warm and slimy, or even, for that matter, if it tried to suck me in by my finger and eat me like some unholy slime from Aliens...
...little bit misogynistic, too.” The heart-breaking news might have been easier to handle had Sally told him her middle name is “Hates.” In an attempt to pacify the bawling veteran, the chair offered him a chance to suck “deez nutz,” an offer he gratefully accepted...
When the political discourse descends to the level of a sports rivalry (“Taxes suck!” “Trade sucks!”), is it really surprising that many voters are unaware of facts that contradict their preexisting beliefs? After burrowing into a comfortably black-and-white worldview, who wants to go to the trouble of reevaluating it in light of new evidence? It’s hard work...
...we’re told a kennel of Yale students pulled off a massive stunt at The Game, tricking two thousand Crimson fans into holding up construction paper spelling out “WE SUCK.” Yale’s student newspaper reported the hoax Monday, and the pranksters put up a website (www.harvardsucks.org) complete with video documentation and posters for sale (way to sell out, fascists...