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Today, New York City celebrates the 10th anniversary of the city’s Smoke-Free Air Act. Since NYC passed this landmark legislation, an estimated 10,000 premature smoking-related deaths have been prevented among New…
The overwhelming majority of those children would have been saved with effective gun control. We know that this is so, because, in societies that have effective gun control, children rarely, rarely, rarely die of gunshots. Let’s worry tomorrow about the problem of Evil. Let’s worry more about making sure that when the Problem of Evil appears in a first-grade classroom, it is armed with a penknife.
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On gun violence and how to end it, the facts are all in, the evidence is clear, the truth there for all who care to know it—indeed, a global consensus is in place, which, in disbelief and now in disgust, the planet waits for us to us to join. Those who fight against gun control, actively or passively, with a shrug of helplessness, are dooming more kids to horrible deaths and more parents to unspeakable grief just as surely as are those who fight against pediatric medicine or childhood vaccination. It’s really, and inarguably, just as simple as that.
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Of Babies and Beans: Paul Ryan on Abortion
Posted by Adam Gopnik, newyorker.comWatching the political debates this season always puts this writer, perhaps irresponsibly, in mind of seventies movie comedies: Romney seems like the smug country clubber in a hundred National Lampoonish movies, the one Chevy Cha…
By Steven Pearlstein„ washingtonpost.com
I am a job creator: A manifesto for the entitled
Published: SEPTEMBER 29, 2:21 PM ET
I am a corporate chief executive.
I am a business owner.
I am a private-equity fund manager.
I am the misunderstood superhero of America…
Is it just me or is there a very strong Soviet/proletariat vibe here?
Yes. Yes there is.
There we go.
Vintage chronophotography by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey.
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Time to put together a summer shindig — Bill Murray’s been tooling around the U.S. crashing every party he can find.
Known to pop up in the unlikeliest karaoke bars and house parties in New York City, he “is looking to take a vacation around the United States,” his rep announced last month. “He’s hoping that if he shows up to your party with a bottle of wine or vegetable tray, you will be able to make the proper accommodations for him. This includes allowing him to sleep on your couch or in a spare bedroom.”
Bill Murray can sleep on our couch anytime.
Wait, this is real?
Come on over Bill! — tanya b.
