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11 People You Don't Want To Be Friends With

Tim Lihoreau | Posted 05.20.2012

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Tim Lihoreau

Perhaps we all have our own Schadenfreude palette (that is, the desire to gloat and find happiness in the misfortunes of others). Having thought about it, I instantly began to notice the said traits amongst friends, relatives and, indeed, total strangers. So I decided to collect them.

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Love is... ?

Maytha Alhassen | Posted 03.11.2012

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Maytha Alhassen

How can we hope to perfect that consummate selfishness to merge with "one" if we can't first practice that with other humans? Why should we even be qualified to receive to the peace, love, mercy and grace of God, if we cannot even be that for the other?

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I'm With Stupid: Not So Super, Since You're Asking

Todd Hartley | Posted 01.28.2012

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Todd Hartley

Editor's note: The following is a transcript of I'm With Stupid's recent conversation with the plaintiff in a contentious legal battle. IWS: Good mor...

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What Does it Mean to Be Free of Definitions?

Gangaji | Posted 01.09.2012

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Gangaji

What is the frame or context of your life? You don't know how your story will end, but at this point you can discover what your story is about.

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'Weed' And 21 Other Definitions That Don't Translate From My Dad To My Daughter

Robert Rosenthal | Posted 12.29.2011

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Robert Rosenthal

To my father, Spam was canned ham. To my daughter, it's naughty, annoying email. Here are 21 more expressions which mean something totally different to him than to her.

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The Trouble With Christian Labels

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 10.16.2011

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Cathleen Falsani

As I read the recent profile of Michele Bachmann in The New Yorker, it was painfully clear that the what-is-an-evangelical question remains largely unanswered for many who live outside the born-again bubble.

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Google Ngrams

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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We've now spent half the day playing with Google's new ngram app that by searching all the digitized books, allows you trace the usage of a word over ...

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What Do Hobbits, Robots, and Yahoos Have In Common?

Mark Peters | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Peters

Words come from everywhere. TV shows are productive -- look at "Battlestar Galactica's" "frak," Stephen Colbert's "truthiness," and "30 Rock's" "blurg...

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The 50 Most Looked-Up Words By New York Times Readers

The New York Times | PHILIP B. CORBETT | Posted 05.25.2011

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Following up on a popular After Deadline post from last year, my colleague James Robinson, with help from Jeremy Safran, once again compiled a list of...

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Not A Problem, A Pribble

Sally Kohn | Posted 11.17.2011

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Sally Kohn

Some problems, a friend recently suggested, are not in fact problems at all. They are pribbles -- problems of a privileged existence.

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