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• Hulk Hogan suing Gawker for second time, this time for allegedly leaking audio of his racist tirade

  02-05-2016 22:47 via salon.com
  
  After being awarded  $140 million in a legal battle against Gawker, Hulk Hogan is suing the news site for a second time.
  According to The New York Post, the former wrestling star filed a new claim against Gawker, for allegedly leaking audio of the racists remarks to the National Enquirer, which were sealed in court documents.
  In a 2007 conversation with sex-tape partner Heather Clem, Hogan unleashed ugly remarks about his daughter Brooke’s black boyfriend.
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• Britney's Performing at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards!

  02-05-2016 22:03
  Britney is set to perform a special medley of her greatest hits at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards! At this years show, Britney will be accepting the Billboard Millenium Award for her outstanding career achievements and influence in the music industry.Dont miss it! Tune in to the live show at 8pm ET on May 22nd on ABCServing up the best for the @bbmas... Performing some of your favorite songs on May 22nd on ABC! #BBMAsA photo posted by Britney Spears (@britneyspears) on May 2, 2016 at 9:01am PDT
  
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• “The Biggest Loser” is a broken fairy tale: Our reality TV obsession with radical transformation needs limits

  02-05-2016 21:47 via salon.com
  
  Just as surely as appearing on “The Bachelor” almost never guarantees a future of wedded bliss, a stint on “The Biggest Loser” is a pretty dicey path to long-term weight loss success. We know this. We have known this for years. Yet a new in-depth New York Times feature by Gina Kolata reveals just how bad the metabolic tyranny of rapid weight loss diets can be — even as the fairy tale of extreme transformation endures.
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• Larry Wilmore didn’t “bomb”: His Washington performance was precisely what comedy should be — cutting elites down to size

  02-05-2016 21:27 via salon.com
  
  “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable,” goes a popular saying.
  The same could be said of comedy. The best comics cut their teeth blasting the establishment, pillorying elites, satirizing the social order — from George Carlin to Dick Gregory, Bill Hicks to Margaret Cho.
  Larry Wilmore did just this on Saturday night. As the featured comedian for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, he used his enormous platform to stir thin
  
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• It’s time to get real about the Obama legacy: Why his economic record is much more complicated than either party wants to admit

  02-05-2016 21:20 via salon.com
  
  In a recent wide-ranging interview with New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, President Barack Obama candidly discussed the economy and his administration’s economic legacy, which, depending on who you ask, is a tremendous success story or a complete disaster.
  (Of course, this means that the truth is somewhere in the middle, although most economists and historians will undoubtedly lean towards the former.)
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• Heidi Cruz finally responds to allegations that Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer

  02-05-2016 21:12 via salon.com
  
  Heidi Cruz told the press on Monday that her husband is not the Zodiac Killer. Add that to the list of bizarre sentences produced by the 2016 presidential primary race, right alongside “Donald Trump is close to clinching Republican nomination.”
  On Monday Yahoo News asked Heidi Cruz to comment on jokes that her husband is the infamous unapprehended Bay Area serial killer.
  “Well, I’ve been married to him for 15 years, and I know pretty well who
  
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• Feed Ramsay Bolton to the dogs already: “Game of Thrones”’ biggest villain should be more interesting than this

  02-05-2016 21:07 via salon.com
  
  “Game Of Thrones” aired one of its most upsetting scenes ever last night, and weirdly, it was about a rather marginal and already well-established plot point. In a protracted scene in Winterfell, Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon) set his killer dogs on his stepmother Walda (Elizabeth Webster) and her newborn baby son—his own half-brother.
  As I discussed this morning, one of the reasons the scene is so upsetting is because it’s seemingly endless, and for no reason except to prolo
  
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• Hillary Clinton withholding donations from state parties, report says

  02-05-2016 20:41 via salon.com
  
  Before Hillary Clinton launched her fundraising vehicle, the Hillary Victory Fund, last summer, she promised to “rebuild” the Democratic Party “from the ground up.” Clinton declared, “When our state parties are strong, we win.” However,  a report by Politico  Monday shows that less than 1 percent of the $61 million raised so far has actually remained in state parties.
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• Rafael Cruz: A vote for my son is a vote “according to the word of God”

  02-05-2016 19:43 via salon.com
  
  According to Ted Cruz’s father, the evangelical pastor Rafael Cruz, Indiana primary voters hoping to vote “according to the word of God” should check the box next to his son’s name.
  Ted Cruz faces a potential do-or-die moment in Indiana. If the Texas senator fails to win the state’s critical primary on Tuesday, he will have little hope of denying his rival Donald Trump the delegates necessary to clinch the Republican presidential nomination before the part
  
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• Ted Cruz is losing ugly: Incoherent flailing and conspiracy theorism in the run-up to Indiana

  02-05-2016 18:48 via salon.com
  
  After spending most of April getting obliterated at the polls by Donald Trump and, in most cases, finishing behind hapless loud-talker John Kasich, Ted Cruz’s hopes for scratching out an improbable victory in the 2016 Republican presidential primary have come down to Indiana. It’s his last big chance to weaken Trump and convince an increasingly hopeless Republican establishment that they don’t need to settle for the politically toxic frontrunner. And with voters headed to the p
  
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• “Geek culture is home to some of the biggest assholes”: “Ghostbusters” Paul Feig director lashes out at Internet

  02-05-2016 18:46 via salon.com
  
  “Freaks and Geeks” alum Paul Feig isn’t the least bit pleased with how the Internet received the trailer for his “Ghostbusters” film, and decided to tell the New York Daily News exactly how he felt.
  “Geek culture is home to some of the biggest assholes I’ve ever met in my life,” Feig told Mathew Kickstein. “Especially after being attacked by them for months because of this ‘Ghostbusters’ project.”
  The film’s trailer ha
  
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• How does the NRA defend this? At least 23 people have been shot by toddlers so far this year, report says

  02-05-2016 18:10 via salon.com
  
  At least 23 people have been shot by children in the U.S in 2016 with 11 resulting in a death, according to a report by The Washington Post,
  According to research by Christopher Ingraham, five more shootings occurred this year in comparison to the same period between January and April last year, and the children were all 3 years old or younger.
  In 18 of the 23 cases the victims were the children themselves, and half of those children died.
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• Radiohead’s vanishing act: Rumored new album could be the anti-technology opus we’ve been waiting for

  02-05-2016 18:08 via salon.com
  
  Radiohead has been one of the world’s most musically uncanny bands for some time now. And Thom Yorke and company have also made strange moves in the past – selling “In Rainbows” for a sum set by the purchaser, for instance. So the band’s latest move – gradually disappearing from the Internet – fits in with the group’s overall way of operating. And Radiohead can be even truer to its vision by going another step.
  Here’s where we are now: Radioh
  
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• Trump embraces blunt sexism: His supporters love the absurd idea that even the smartest woman isn’t as good as a man

  02-05-2016 18:05 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump never met a preposterous statement he wasn’t willing to stand by, and so it is with his apparent belief that women are unfairly advantaged over men in our society. On Fox News on Sunday, Chris Wallace asked Trump why he would say that Hillary Clinton is a talentless hack who is coasting on the “woman card,” i.e. the unearned privilege he believes women enjoy over men, and Trump defended himself by pulling his P.C.-police-suppress-the-truth card.
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• Serving up the best for the @bbmas... Performing some of your favorite songs on May 22nd on ABC! #BBMAs https://t.co/6krai4tHGI

  02-05-2016 18:01 via twitter.com
  
  Serving up the best for the @bbmas... Performing some of your favorite songs on May 22nd on ABC! #BBMAs https://t.co/6krai4tHGI
  
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• Ann Coulter attacks Obama for nominating a woman to lead West Point

  02-05-2016 17:55 via salon.com
  
  That Ann Coulter uses Twitter to loose upon the world the thoughts even the most conservative of people know need filtering is beyond question, so it’s more a matter of when she will be horrible again than if, and over the weekend she maintained true to form.
  Yesterday, she decided to complain about the fact that President Obama nominated a woman to oversee West Point, the United States Military Academy, writing that:
  This ought to have ISIS shaking in their boots.U.S. West Point academy s
  
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• The dark road to criminalizing pregnancy: Why everyone should care about the “feticide” conviction of Purvi Patel

  02-05-2016 17:40 via salon.com
  
  On March 30, 2015, a 33-year-old Indiana resident named Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 consecutive years in prison. She is the first woman in the U.S. to be convicted and sentenced on “feticide” charges for ending her own pregnancy.
  Patel says she had a miscarriage. When she arrived, bleeding, at a hospital near South Bend, her doctor called the police on her. The state of Indiana charged her with both feticide for allegedly inducing an abortion, and child neglect for all
  
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• Malia Obama’s gap year is a smart choice — and a luxury that many American students can’t afford

  02-05-2016 17:26 via salon.com
  
  Following the jokes, fashion and “nerd prom” activities of the White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend, the Obama family announced that oldest daughter Malia will be attending Harvard University for college. The announcement is the first look at what the future will look like for the Obamas after an eight-year presidency.
  How will the children adjust to life outside the White House that served as their home through such formative years of adolescent development? Fortunately Ma
  
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• “The Little Rascals,” “Sex and the City,” “Home Alone 2″: Donald Trump has made more TV and film appearances than you think

  02-05-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump’s longtime role as America’s most iconic rich businessman has landed him appearances in dozens of films, television shows and commercials playing himself.
  We rounded up some of his most surprisingcameos — take a look.
  
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• Amy Schumer owes you nothing: Celebrity selfies aren’t a right — no matter how famous she is

  02-05-2016 16:54 via salon.com
  
  Just in case there’s any confusion on this issue: Amy Schumer is not a cop. She is not a firefighter or public school teacher. She is a not a postal employee or the governor of the state of North Carolina. She is not a public servant, and your taxes don’t pay her salary. If you don’t want to see her movies or watch her show or attend her standup events, that’s fine. But as she herself clearly articulated this weekend, she owes you nothing.
  On Instagram Saturday, the 34 ye
  
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• Ted Cruz’s last stand: Cruz stumbles awkwardly toward defeat in Indiana, as the Trump juggernaut rolls onward

  02-05-2016 16:39 via salon.com
  
  Ted Cruz has to win in Indiana Tuesday. If he can’t, his campaign is dead in the water and Donald Trump is on a glide path to the Republican nomination. For the last several months, it was unclear whether Trump could reach 1,237 delegates before the convention. But the landscape has changed and Indiana may well put him over the top.
  At 996 delegates and on the heels of huge victories in states like New York and Maryland, Trump is as unstoppable as ever. His numbers are climbing everywhere
  
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• Child yells “You suck!” at Ted Cruz during Indiana rally; Cruz suggests boy should be spanked

  02-05-2016 16:39 via salon.com
  
  Things aren’t looking good for Ted Cruz in Indiana. The Texas senator trails Donald Trump by 15 points in polling for the state’s crucial primary, and a loss on Tuesday could spell the end of Cruz’s campaign.
  At a rally in La Porte on Sunday, Cruz was interrupted by an unruly young audience member in a scene reminiscent of confrontations that have become commonplace at Trump events. The attendee, whom the Daily Caller described as a “pre-teen boy,” loudly heckl
  
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• John Oliver’s message to the cicadas who’ve been asleep for 17 years: You won’t believe what we get away with now!

  02-05-2016 16:34 via salon.com
  
  “Last Week Tonight” may have taken the week off, but John Oliver didn’t, delivering a message to the cicadas who are just awakening from their seventeen-year slumber.
  Billions of the insects will be emerging from the ground to plague the Northeast in a few short weeks, and Oliver took it upon himself to inform them of exactly what they’ve missed in the past seventeen years, including the fact that we don’t live in the “Willennium” and that we all now liv
  
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• Don’t you dare call it fascism: Andrew Sullivan on why Donald Trump’s ideologically incoherent movement doesn’t even deserve the epithet

  02-05-2016 16:11 via salon.com
  
  In his latest column for New York, former blogger extraordinaire Andrew Sullivan goes long — really, really long — on why the rise of Donald Trump doesn’t deserve to be dismissed as mere fascism, as it has its philosophical origins in one of the oldest forms of tyranny.
  “[I]t is when a democracy has ripened as fully as this, Plato argues, that a would-be tyrant will often seize his moment,” Sullivan wrote. “To call this fascism doesn’t do justice to fasc
  
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• Newt Gingrich’s Facebook live stream is everyone’s grandpa on social media

  02-05-2016 16:00 via salon.com
  
  Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is making good use of Facebook live stream. He’s live streamed from Europe, from his office and while on the road. But sometimes, mastering technology can be rough. Watch our video for every must-see moment.
  
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• Britney Spears To Perform & Receive Millennium Award at Billboard Music Awards 2016!

  02-05-2016 15:20
  
  Britney Spears is set to perform at this month’s 2016 Billboard Music Awards!
  The 34-year-old entertainer will perform a medley of her big hits at the show, according to USA Today.
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  Britney is also set to receive The Millennium Award, “meant to acknowledge outstanding career achievements and influence in the music industry,” an award previously handed out to Beyoncé (in 2011) and Whitney Houston (in 2012).
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• Ted Cruz: “It’s people who are the predators,” not the “transgendered”

  02-05-2016 15:17 via salon.com
  
  Texas Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz appeared on “Meet the Press” Sunday and attempted to walk back some of the more horrible statements he’s made about the LGBTQ community — but because he’s still Ted Cruz, he failed.
  “If you pass a law — as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and Barack Obama want — that says any adult man can go into a girl’s restroom if he feels like a woman at that minute,” he began, before chang
  
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• Lindsey Graham: If Trump wins the GOP “civil war,” there will be “another 9/11″

  02-05-2016 15:12 via salon.com
  
  South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday and declared that if Donald Trump is elected, his foreign policy would “lead to another 9/11.”
  Graham acknowledged that there’s a “civil war” going on within the Republican Party, and that it’s Trump’s fault — but he went one step further, declaring that Trump isn’t just a dangerous choice for his party, he’s a deadly choice for the nation.
  
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• Watch Carly Fiorina fall off the stage after introducing Ted Cruz as “your next President of the United States”

  02-05-2016 14:54 via salon.com
  
  For the second time this Republican presidential primary cycle, Carly Fiorina has fallen from her perch at the number two spot — but this time, more than her poll numbers are plummeting, as the already failed presidential candidate actually fell off the stage Sunday after introducing her running mate, Ted Cruz.
  “The next President of the United States — Ted Cruz!” Fiorina enthusiastically announced after introducing Cruz’s wife and daughters at a rally in Indiana. S
  
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• Paul Krugman: If you want to feel better about America, go to Europe

  02-05-2016 14:20 via salon.com
  
  In his Monday New York Times column, Paul Krugman sang the praises of an America that will eventually, in his mind, have Hillary Clinton deposited in the White House.
  “I’d love to see Europe emerge from its funk,” Krugman wrote from Portugal. “The world needs more vibrant democracies! But at the moment it’s hard to see any positive signs.”
  However, he noted that “[v]isiting Europe can make an American feel good about his own country,” even if &ldqu
  
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• “Game Of Thrones” recap: Familiar faces return—and a few depart for good

  02-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  The following is a recap of the “Game of Thrones” episode “Home,” and it contains spoilers galore. 
  It’s a little counterintuitive that an episode with one of the biggest plot reveals of the television season is also one that feels most anticlimactic. As welcome as the reveal of the final moments of “Home” is, the pacing of the episode lopes and drags, squandering much of the suspense, horror, and wonderment it could have created.
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• Donald Trump is an imperialist thug: Stop saying he’s less hawkish than Hillary Clinton!

  02-05-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  
  The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd officially weighed in on the probable general election match-up this past week-end with her standard take on everything: politics as a never-ending battle between macho men, effeminate boys and masculine girls. Normally this breaks down for Dowd as the tiresome Daddy and Mommy party split with the swaggering, manly Republicans vs the timorous girly-men Democrats. She flips the script when a Democratic woman is running, portraying her as a steely b
  
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• Debunked myth that Saddam created ISIS continues to be spread by Iraq War-supporting scholars like Amatzia Baram

  02-05-2016 13:58 via salon.com
  
  Some myths just won’t die.
  Thirteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq — which the U.N. explicitly said was illegal — supporters of the disastrous war continue to peddle the myth that secular Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein bears responsibility for the rise of extremist groups like ISIS.
  When this claim is made in the media, however, it is rarely disclosed that the people making it were themselves staunch cheerleaders for the Iraq War. An exemplary case of this took place in A
  
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• 5 worst right-wing moments of the week — Carly Fiorina makes America’s collective skin crawl

  02-05-2016 13:40 via salon.com
  
  The week was overflowing with right-wing assholery mixed with a generous dollop of buffoonery. As Trump’s inevitability grew stronger, he launched his sexist Hillary-bashing campaign in earnest. He also very presidentially described John Kasich’s eating habits as “disgusting,” one of his favorite adjectives, and one we can expect him to employ frequently about Clinton if, say, she has the audacity to eat or have a body.
  Then there was Carly Fiorina’s bizarre musica
  
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• How Donald Trump always gets away with it: He’s more like Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter than a politician

  02-05-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Within moments of Donald Trump trotting out his “woman card” rant, comparisons were being made to Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women” moment.  Romney’s gaffe took place during the third presidential debate of the 2012 election when he was asked how he would handle workplace inequality and equal pay.  Romney told the town hall member who had posed the question that he had “binders full of women” to choose from when it came to filling cab
  
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• “A lot of things that seem simple aren’t so simple”: Seymour Hersh on the untold story of Osama bin Laden killing and the way Washington — and the media — really work

  02-05-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh broke the story of the My Lai massacre in 1969. He was the first to report the atrocities at Abu Ghraib prison, back in 2004.
  Hersh’s most recent break threatens to blur the boundary between investigative reporting and conspiracy theory. The story, published last May in the London Review of Books, alleges that Pakistan caught Osama bin Laden years ago and then kept him under house arrest in Abbottabad. Eventually, Hersh writes, a walk-in leaked bin Lade
  
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• Bernie Sanders is not a sore loser: Our democracy is screwed unless we fix the unfair rules

  02-05-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  Mainstream coverage of the Bernie Sanders campaign tends to suggest that they were falsely blaming voting fraud for their loss.  In the establishment narrative that describes Sanders as an unrealistic candidate that has no chance of actually winning, there seems almost no possibility that any objection from the Sanders camp can be taken seriously. The story becomes the campaign’s inability to deal with reality and it ignores the real complaints voters have about the election
  
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• The Benghazi slow-walk: How to drag out an investigation for maximum political impact

  02-05-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  At some point over the next few months, the House Select Committee on Benghazi will release its final report and we’ll finally get to see what committee chair Trey Gowdy and his pals have been up to these past two years. It’s been difficult to suss out precisely what the committee has been doing given that (contrary to Gowdy’s promises) it hasn’t held many public hearings, and the one “Interim Progress Update” it released last May focused largely on complainin
  
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• Don’t say Bernie’s revolution is dead: Why the real work of making change in America starts now

  02-05-2016 11:56 via salon.com
  
  It happened slowly and quietly, but for the last 50 years or so, since Lyndon Johnson’s devastating 1964 landslide victory over Barry Goldwater, the conservative movement and the Republican Party has managed to successfully infiltrate government at every level, from the school board on up. It’s been an almost imperceptibly gradual process, but they’ve done it. The movement started fresh at the very bottom and grew virally through the 1970s — gurgling upward in dribs and d
  
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• Our “Game of Thrones” fantasy: Democracy is almost nonexistent in Westeros—and we like it that way

  02-05-2016 01:30 via salon.com
  
  The 6th season of “Game of Thrones” is off to a strong start; ratings are high, and fans are enjoying the show’s unfolding narrative of graphic intrigue, infighting, and incest.
  No-one knows how the game will end, but one thing is for certain. Amidst all the bloodshed, backstabbing, and bare breasts, what fans don’t expect, wouldn’t want, and won’t get is the winner to assume executive power through representing the will of the people by winning the major
  
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• Jen Kirkman speaks the truth: On casual sexism, comedy, feminism, the real work of relationships, and why your job won’t save you

  02-05-2016 00:30 via salon.com
  
  Jen Kirkman’s new memoir opens with a line you might not expect from a stand-up comedian who jokes mercilessly in her recent Netflix special, “I’m Gonna Die Alone (and I Feel Fine),” about turning 40 and discovering her own gray pubic hairs. For context, here’s a quote from that set:
  “If it was white hair, no problem, I’d grow that out silky, like Kenny Rogers’ beard. Or I’d shave it into a mohawk like Billy Idol — punk rock pussy,
  
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