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Posts from September 2006

Sexyback

Justin Timberlake is on a mission. He’s bringing the sexy back. But he’s picked an odd way to do it: he’s released a track that could have been — and probably will be — written by our robot overlords.

The song is inescapable. It’s called SexyBack, and it goes like this:

I’m bringing sexy back [...]


Fundamentalist Heads of State

Andrew Sullivan weighs in on Bush:

The serenity may also come from his own fundamentalist psyche. There’s a reason fundamentalism is popular. Unlike other forms of faith, it relieves the believer of almost all responsibility for any of his doubts, it surrenders everything in a person’s psyche to God’s will, it appeases all anxiety [...]


White Sunglasses

In 1992, I decided that I needed sunglasses. Not the cheap-ass sunglasses I’d been pulling off the racks at Target every couple of months or so. I needed quality sunglasses this time around. Cool sunglasses. Yes.

So I went to Sunglass Hut in the mall and picked out the biggest, plastic-est, whitest sunglasses I could find [...]


The Definer

This is how you lose you soul:

Mr. Bush on Wednesday acknowledged the use of aggressive interview techniques, but only in the most general terms. “We knew that Zubaydah had more information that could save innocent lives, but he stopped talking,” Mr. Bush said. He said the C.I.A. had used “an alternative set of [...]


Moral Calculus

I took three semesters of calculus in college, from which I learned three important lessons:

Isaac Newton was a genius Numbers make me cry If my life ever depends on calculus skills, I will die

I purged all of that toxic shit out of my mind a couple minutes after the last exam of my last class, but nevertheless [...]


Never Again

I come out of the office at nine o’clock, stumbling away from the deadline that’s been looming over me like some kind of Mordorish evil eye, casting a dank, gritty pall. I’m numb and tired, which is a little disappointing: I’d expecting elation, a seratonin spike that would just sweep away the months of stress-horde [...]