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Some Mixed Bag Goodness

There’s actually a competitive sport called wife carrying. Finland – like other geographic locations that are cold and dark half the year – comes up with some bizarre ways to pass the time. They even set up an obstacle course for participants. What’s the background? Back in the day: “Raids on surrounding villages, with the

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Men Without Women

On the way home from kickboxing tonight, I was reading Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast (believe it or not, yes, I’m a Hemingway fan). And I stumbled across this lovely passage: “There is not much future in men being friends with great women although it can be pleasant enough before it gets better or worse, and

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And Etc.

Amanda’s got some thoughts up on a silly Salon piece about the still-popular idea that women should only be dating men who are taller than they are. Television continues to push the monstrous sexual dimorphism thing for no good reason, except to make people feel bad about themselves if they’re not paired up “correctly” (or

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Boxing Dayz

Had my first sparring class yesterday. Ended up being 3 hours worth of classes, as I showed up for pilates at 10:15, and the sparring class wasn’t until noon, so I had an hour of pilates, an hour of boxing (partnered mitts), and then an hour of sparring. Do you have any idea how badly

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Fun With Find and Replace

Read the original here. Read the “find and replace” version below: MIXED Sexualities AND MIXED Marriages by Herbert Ravenel Sass (From The Atlantic Monthly, circa 1956) WHAT may well be the most important physical fact in the story of the United States is one which is seldom emphasized in our history books. It is the

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