Seriously. William Safire -- recently-retired Token Intellectual Conservative of the NY Times' Op-Ed page -- ( explores the world of twee in his On Language column this week. )

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... are the best thing in the world.


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A few months ago I went to China. Specifically the Beijing area. Beijing is an endless, sprawling metropolis. China is home to over a billion people and has an impossibly important and complex history dating back many thousands of years. I couldn't begin to describe the experience of visiting a place so vast in so many ways. So today begins a ( Read more... )

...is the best thing in the world. For these reasons:

1.) It is about the Beatles, The Greatest Band That Ever Was.

2.) It uses the band's rise and fall to explain why youth culture can be actually important... and why it hasn't been for decades ( Read more... )

To understand how Mick Jagger has managed to keep touring for lo these many hundreds of years, one need only study this photograph from today's New York Times.


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Stumbled upon this while researching a story about phobias. It's from a message board for people suffering from social anxiety. The writer has a bipolar disorder and has only recently begun to overcome depression.

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