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Joshuah Bearman
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The True Gauge of Success
Porn has returned to the streets of Baghdad, signaling success for Operation Enduring Freedom, or whatever the American military effort is called. Mission Finally Accomplished!
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Autochromes
They look colorized but these images from the Albert Kahn collection are autochromes — the earliest true color photos — and besides being nifty and nostalgic, they seem to live up to Kahn’s goal to create a photographic record of…
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At Least The Republicans are Being Honest
…about being dishonest. This article should have been titled “Republicans Freely Admit They Have No Ideas,” since it basically is an on-the-record admission by GOP strategists that their mid-term strategy, which is the culmination of two years of GOP opposition…
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No Meat For Sex?
First they said that monkeys do pay for sex, but only in a lab, and once they’ve been taught to use currency. Or maybe, it turned out, that wild macaques do it too, trading services instead of coins. What services?…
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Pimp Flow Chart
First, a question. If you were a proprietor of a criminal organization with a cliched (and apparently universal) flamboyant aesthetic, don’t you think that you might one day decide to dress in sweaters and chinos so as to avoid easy…
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Joy in Eccentricity
Who knew there were still roving bands of dancing hermaphrodites and eunuchs? Even more surprising is the fact that hijira, as the gypsy-like middlesex is called in South Asia, are marginally accepted as a social group, even in conservative Pakistan.…
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What They Still Carry
Susan Mullally is a photographer in Texas. Among other things, she takes pictures of homeless people who congregate underneath an Interstate 35 bridge in Waco. The portraits are of the people, rootless for various reasons, and the things they still…
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Godzilla Haiku: Why Less is More
At first I was excited about this. Combine two Japanese cultural traditions — contemplative poetic exercise and atomic age monster from the deep — and you get humor and existential melancholy, like so:
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The Best Detail…
The best detail about the Senate parliamentarian is not that he is a mysterious figure with a question mark for a head. Or that his last interview was 22 years ago. Or that Senate Historian Donald Ritchie has only seen…