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Will it stick? Stay T̸u̸n̸e̸d̸ SHEESHED.
Comparison: It seems like Biden is throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. Lora Kelley from The Atlantic interviewing social media...
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Feb 16, 20241 min read
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When do they open?
Comparison: . . . feels like window-shopping for love at a store that's closed. . . . life might be different if I owned them [beautiful...
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Feb 10, 20241 min read
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Short, shorter, shortest. Relief!
Comparison: I’ve had headaches that were shorter and more pleasant. Washington Post film reviewer Ty Burr apparently had a burr under his...
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Feb 3, 20241 min read
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Light switch, light switch, wherefore art thou light switch?
Comparison: ‘It’s never like flipping a light switch. It’s always a process,’ he says. Antony Blinken uses “never“ to put an emphatic...
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Jan 25, 20241 min read
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Now THAT's some jumbled poetry.
Comparison: Last night Donald Trump made his closing argument by throwing magnetic poetry in a blender during an earthquake. CBS's Steven...
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Jan 24, 20241 min read
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Our guy's gonna win . . . right Dad?
Comparison: Have you ever seen where a parent has a toddler in a car seat, and the toddler has a tiny, brightly colored toy steering...
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Jan 21, 20241 min read
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Time running out! The shot is away . . .
Comparison: For basketball fans, these are relics of the True Cross. Air Jordans. Air Jordans. Air Jordans. Holy Sneakers. At auction....
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Jan 20, 20241 min read
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Slot cars re-invented just in time!
Comparison: One of the hardest aspects of getting old is that time races by like a slot car. I guess everything speeds up when it’s going...
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Jan 18, 20241 min read
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Who paid for your plane and parachute?
Comparison: The climate denialists come back again and again, at each fresh wave of global warming awareness, like ‘fire-jumpers,’ Lipsky...
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Jan 6, 20241 min read
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Amen. Pass the Pigskin.
Comparison: As Michigan’s and Washington’s ‘student-athletes’ (the core locution in the liturgy of the Church of College Football) gird...
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Jan 5, 20241 min read
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Did the garbage truck come yet?
Comparison: ‘Trash takes itself out every single time.’ Taylor Swift reflects on the outcome for some of her less-than-honorable enemies....
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Dec 27, 20231 min read
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Did sailing attendants have to do an oxygen mask demo?
Comparison: Imagine an airline flight of five months with one brief stop, no movies, porridge for breakfast, salt pork for dinner, and a...
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Dec 27, 20231 min read
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Who's raising the flag today?
Comparison: ‘I‘ve been raised up and down the flagpole of public opinion so many times in the last 20 years,‘ . . . . ‘I've been given a...
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Dec 26, 20231 min read
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Mermaid or Whale?
Comparison: Recently, in a large city in France, a poster featuring a young, thin and tan woman appeared in the window of a gym. It read:...
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Dec 23, 20232 min read
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Where'd that team go?
Comparison: JERRY: This may be the most perfect jacket I have ever put on. (Elaine grabs the tag) How much is it? ELAINE: (Shocked) Oh my...
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Dec 21, 20231 min read
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Be a bit easier on the clutch. OK?
Comparison: There’s no regret, no tenderness, no residue of passion grand or otherwise—just the grinding of gears as the film cuts back...
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Dec 20, 20231 min read
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How unknown, exactly?
Comparison: Are you willing to sprint when the distance is unknown? Strength and conditioning coach Lewis Caralla asking athletes if they...
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Dec 16, 20231 min read
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Would Michelangelo have used a robot?
Comparison: . . . how did you come here, on foot, on a horse or in a car? The car cuts time off your journey. So does a robot. An...
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Dec 11, 20231 min read
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Who Wrote the Script?
Comparison: On the debate stage, both are scripted, but [Nikki] Haley is agile and sharp-tongued while [Ron] DeSantis is a bulldozer with...
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Dec 9, 20231 min read
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Toot. Toot.
Comparison: [Ridley] Scott plays, to push Welles’s metaphor further, with the biggest train sets conceivable—giant, beautiful, gleaming...
DLP
Nov 24, 20231 min read
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