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Air mattresses are cold!

By anonymouss
Aside from the many apt complaints in the article, my big annoyance with air mattresses is that they are cold in the winter, because you are sleeping right ... Read More

1924 Version

By DRoderick
Hi Robert, I, too, favor the 1924 version of the poem. While reading it this morning, I kept circling back to the first stanza, where Moore works very ... Read More

Re-armament makes sense for Japan

By GreenwichJ
One of Japan's problems is its high savings rate. Mobilising these savings in an effective way is difficult. Japan makes brilliant machinery, yet it constitutionally ... Read More

One good reason to go 1080P

By Rob Marney
If you play video games, there's a good case to be made for very high resolutions. While TV signals are constrained by the cable company, your Xbox, PS3 ... Read More

Isaac Hayes' Journey.

By wiseoldude
Regardless of what we believe we are and where we go, how about we all wish Love and Thanks to a bonafide Messenger Of Love, Isaac Hayes. Through his compositions, ... Read More

Anti-productive care

By BenK
Sure, sure, we can go on and swear about the damn lies and statistics. We can argue that poor people shouldn't get treatments because they are poor, or ... Read More

"her slutty flight attendant look" and other pertinent facts

By Joe_JP
The pertinent facts: During his monologue on June 8, Letterman called Palin a "slutty flight attendant" and joked about Palin's daughter being propositioned ... Read More

"Poetry" and the thankless work of the textual editor

By Paul_Breslin
Equipped with our sleekly-edited Norton Anthologies, we can easily forget how heavily-mediated the texts of poems we read may be. (Try an old-spelling ... Read More

I have been that genius guy ...

By Malarkey
... and I have to say, it takes a lot more intelligence to know when to pick your battles than it does to just unload every time. I suppose I don't know ... Read More

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Shockingly Bad Advice

By MacAdvisor
Prudy's advice to In Love with a Super Computer was shockingly bad. First, she didn't help the writer with the problem. She gave unsolicited advice to ... Read More

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comment on the XX Factor

By Moirared
... particularly the discussion on intellectualls, featuring in the current Fraywatch column. <link> Moira Redmond Fray Slat ... Read More

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the last letter is a perfect example of the Peter principle

By Kal_Aline
wow, an office manager who doesn't know how to deligate, and which nobody has any respect for. KA good hiring decision, HR department. ... Read More

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The trials of the office manager.

By NewAlgier
The best way to attack this common problem is through the boss for whom you are Executive Assistant, I think. (Perhaps the he/she is the president of the ... Read More

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I disagree on the genious boy advice,

By chance20_m
I'll agree with Prudence up to a point, it is certainly possible that the boyfriend who wins all the arguments is an arogant bully, and I'll grant that ... Read More

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Nice shout out to Dr. Manahatan

By chfbtnka
Is Prudie revealing her inner geek? I expect a comparison to Caprica Six next week. ... Read More

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Smothering BF - why not mutual?

By Wundt
I think Prudence has forgotten what it is like to be in that first relationship. While it is true that the BF may be too clingly... my question is, why ... Read More

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Fray Bash - A Pilgrim's Progress

By Keifus
There's nothing like a song around the nighttime campfire to attune a person to the sense of earthly friendships and even higher powers. Everyone held ... Read More

Are Intellectuals Mean?

By Malone
Rachael, I found your most recent post quite interesting. It is, I think, a good-faith effort to address an issue that has long bedevilled our politics. ... Read More

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How To Kill Your Baby

By august
1. You will kill your baby. You will leave her in a crib, or you will sleep in the same bed with her, where she will fall victim to SIDS. You wil install ... Read More

Royko rolls over and smiles

By Schmutzie
When Rupert Murdoch bought the Chicago Sun-Times in 1984, Mike Royko, my hero, switched teams. He hated Murdoch, and said that "No self respecting fish ... Read More

The arrogance of ignorance

By Knute
Sorry, it's not the informed that are condescending to the uninformed. More often it is the uninformed who cling stubbornly to their mis- or lack of information, ... Read More

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Thoughts on Intellectuals and Anti-Intellectuals

By Adrasteia
And yet Rachel, I do not see a campaign ad from the left accusing conservatives of being "rednecks" or "uneducated." I do see ads from the right accusing ... Read More

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Why I like the fray

By Cyrus
I once heard a comedian talking about why he loves New York. He said one of the things he likes abot NY is riding the subway. He likes this because every ... Read More

This has to be a record.

By cgScirocco_
The "record" being, the shelf life of the latest hail mary, "save me I'm drowning stunt" by the McFailin' campaign. Last night, the nation was introduced ... Read More