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November 2012

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“Terrible things happening to orphans over and over again”

  • Caroline Kangas
  • November 5, 2012
That turned out to be a very fortunate pitch for Lemony Snicket. The Chronicle reports on Daniel Handler, San Francisco native and future contributor to Letters for Kids. Topics discussed include: a…
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Ted Wilson for President. Tomorrow.

  • The Rumpus
  • November 5, 2012
Our own Ted Wilson is running for President. Have you considered voting for him tomorrow? Facts: 1. Instead of using drones to accidentally murder innocent people, Ted will use them…
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Polling Preparation

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • November 5, 2012
One commenter shared a few great suggestions in response to today’s Week in Greed. Maura says: 1. To find your polling place, you can text “FIND” to 228466. It will ask for…
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“Feather”: A Rumpus Original Poem by Deborah Ager

  • Rumpus Original Poems
  • November 5, 2012
Feather Somehow, I thought you’d want to eat alone, A state you’d grown to master—brandy glass, A man behind your chair to fill your plate, A girl to bring you…
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  • Politics

Disasters are live-action infomercials for big government…

  • Nato Green
  • November 5, 2012
Comedian Nato Green writes about Hurricane Sandy, the NYU hospital evacuation, and the contrast between the merit of big government and the villainization of all things public.
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Report from the HMS Bounty

  • Caroline Kangas
  • November 5, 2012
“The risks have become legend, and the language for intense emotions—whether love or loss—are borrowed from the extremes of life at sea.” The Paris Review Daily posts the story of…
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A Case for the Wasted Vote

  • Ravi Mangla
  • November 5, 2012
Voting for a third party is the way I choose to voice my dissent. It’s a vote toward realignment, a recalibration, of our political system. The dominant parties are stricken with tunnel vision; their economic promises are distracting us from other critically important issues
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #159

  • Ted Wilson
  • November 5, 2012
MITT ROMNEY ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Mitt Romney.
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Notable San Francisco 11/5-11-10

  • Emmy Komada
  • November 5, 2012
This week in San Francisco! Monday 11/5: Quiet Lightning is a monthly curated magazine featuring blind submissions by writers throughout the Bay Area. Tonight’s readings come from the November issue,…
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“Mortality,” by Christopher Hitchens

  • Joe Winkler
  • November 5, 2012
An amorphous aura resonates around authors we discover on our own. Before we hear of their fame and talent, before everyone recommends their book as a “must read” we find…
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Improve your prose with Math

  • Pat Johnson
  • November 5, 2012
Alright fiction writers, put down your pens for a moment and let’s talk math. If you recoil when hearing the “M-word” or brace your index fingers into a cross at…
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Week in Greed #18: They Were Careless People

  • Steve Almond
  • November 5, 2012
I remember that it was late at night and I was returning to my dorm, having just watched Ronald Reagan win re-election with an unprecedented 60 percent of the popular…
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