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“I was all, like—awugh.”

I heard that conversation yesterday at a restaurant where I was having lunch. Two women sat together at a table talking on their cell phones. Presumably, they were talking not…
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Here’s a good idea!

The situation is this: New Yorkers are loosing their jobs at a rate not seen since perhaps the Great Depression. The housing market is still heading downwards. People have less,…
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What is the worst crime?

Depends on what you mean by worst. If it means what most of it think it means---individual agony and suffering---then the culprits for worst are obvious: murder, torture and other…