January 2012
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Chance an American thinks it is at least “partly true” that secret...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, January 2012.
I never knew about the conspiracy theory of “chem-trails” (versus what they are really called, i.e. con-trails) until I moved to New Mexico and heard some lady railing on about them in the hot tub at Ojo Caliente. I’d...
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Portion of New Yorkers making more than $100,000 a year who support Occupy Wall...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, January 2011.
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Number of codes in the current nationwide system for describing medical services...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, December 2011.
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Date on which Governor Rick Scott said that Florida doesn’t need...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, December 2011.
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Amount of employees of private-equity firm Bain Capital have donated to the...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, January 2011.
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Percentage by which the average contracted project costs the government more...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, December 2011.
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Portion of adults who think Hollywood is a threat to their values: 1/3
Number...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, December 2011.
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Number of sex dolls distributed to SS soldiers by Heinrich Himmler, according to...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, December 2011.
Suddenly, the hours I recently spent designing an ideal Real Doll with a group of people at a dinner party take on a sinister overtone.
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Percentage of the “Millennial Generation” that is “absolutely...
– Harper’s Index, Harper’s magazine, December 2011.
Does that mean we atheists are winning?
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And Cassie Bernall’s martyrdom was showing the most legs. ‘Millions...
– Columbine by Dave Cullen. I’m reading Dave Cullen’s incredibly well researched account of the Columbine shootings and their aftermath right now, an event which fascinated me at the time. What I’m finding more unsettling than the killers is the Columbine community’s vehemently...
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