We watched the new Chris Rock special last night, which was weird. He’s a difficult comedian sometimes, because while he’s really insightful and thoughtful when it comes to talking about race, he’s just awful on gender and sexuality. Like, cringe-worthy bad.
I was watching Eddie Murphy: RAW a couple weeks ago, and it’s a lot [...]

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  The Lilypad is where rich, smart people will live after we all drown. It’s basically a self-sufficient, artificial, floating island capable of supporting about 50,000 people. The point is that when water levels rise and everything’s drowning, these self-contained buoyant cities will float happily and peacefully until, I dunno, people start having babies and [...]

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Do you remember being excited? For something other than Dark Knight, I mean (also: doesn’t get released in the UK for another week, I don’t want to hear about it). Like, there was a time when going to see a band play was the highlight of my whatever- I would get the tickets way [...]

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A Moroccan-born Muslim woman, married to a French man, living in the east of Paris with her husband and their three French children lost her appeal for citizenship on the grounds that she has adopted a radical practice of her religion, incompatible with essential values of the French community, particularly the principle of equality of [...]

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