I love sarah vowell because she writes history books (the following is from "the wordy shipmates") with sentences like "talking about winthrop's 'a model of christian charity' without discussing ronald reagan would be like mentioning dolly parton's 'I will always love you' and pretending whitney houston doesn't exist."

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I am glimpsing my future as the weird unmarried aunt who comes to christmas dinner and gets a little too drunk and starts ranting about something nobody cares about.

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someone on my slate podcast just pointed out that caroline kennedy is even less qualified than sarah palin was.

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I just got into the berlinale film festival's talent campus program!

I thought I might get in, but I didn't actually think I'd GET IN.

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I am totally starting to get into this being single thing.

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i've been listening to the sound opinions podcast (which I love and you should all download btw) and this week's is with amy ray. people who know her know her as half of the indigo girls, but I only know her as the exgirlfriend of jennifer baumgardner, author of "manifesta" and "look both ways: bisexual politics", who I have a serious crush on.

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