It is possible for adult humans to recognize the difference between entertainment and real-life violence.
A “Shaft” in which everyone gets exploited equally
It was when Shaft sampled Bangkok that I felt the racial divide between us evaporating.
Maybe Jessica Bangkok can’t play the piano, Amy Chua, but she knows how to live
Every teacher from Sting to Jeff Daniels’ character in “Terms of Endearment” to whatever Garp’s wife’s name was (I’m not going to look it up—do I look Chinese to you?) can tell you that you shouldn’t pluck the low-hanging fruit that is a besotted student.
Sarah Vandella’s creampie of assonance
Today we’ll talk about assonance, the use of similar sounds inside words. Also creampies.
This Brothel Life: Booty is only part of it
I’ve been to a few brothels in my callow youth and I have never, ever seen one that looks like the kind that are depicted in porn movies. And that’s fine. The Moonlite Bunnyranch? A collection of windswept trailers in the desert. The Kennedy Compound it is not (and I’ve also been to the Kennedy [...]


Narcissism
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