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• Former NSA Chief Keith Alexander Is Speaking in Seattle Tonight

  09-04-2015 23:46 via thestranger.com
  
  "Give me all your personal deets, yo!" Defense.gov
  Going to see Keith Alexander—head of the National Security Agency from 2005 to 2014, and, if Edward Snowden is right, prolific dick pic collector—speak tonight at 7 p.m. at Seattle Pacific University? Here are some questions you might want to ask Keith:  1. Keith, why is the NSA collecting our dick pics? Are you collecting our tit pics too?2. I would like to collect it all, Keith: all of your personal and family photos! Okay, K
  
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• Former NSA Chief Is Speaking in Seattle Tonight

  09-04-2015 23:46 via thestranger.com
  
  "Give me all your personal deets, yo!" Defense.gov
  Going to see Keith Alexander—head of the National Security Agency from 2005 to 2014, and, if Edward Snowden is right, prolific dick pic collector—speak tonight at 7 p.m. at Seattle Pacific University? Here are some questions you might want to ask Keith:  1. Keith, why is the NSA collecting our dick pics? Are you collecting our tit pics too?2. I would like to collect it all, Keith: all of your personal and family photos! Okay, K
  
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• Theater Behind Bars—Inside Freehold's New Play at Washington Corrections Center for Women

  09-04-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Truth Flows Like Water, written and performed by WCCW inmates. Scott Maddock
  One afternoon last week, in the gymnasium of the women's prison in Purdy, a few loudspeakers blasted TLC's 1994 hit single "Waterfalls"—a cautionary tale in verse about the perils of drugs, crime, and unprotected sex. A couple dozen women in gray, prison-issue sweat suits danced and sang along enthusiastically, their voices echoing off the walls: "Don't go chasing waterfalls/Please stick to the rivers and the lake
  
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• Season Three Orange Is the New Black Trailer Is Up

  09-04-2015 22:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Stop everything and watch:Between Broad City, Game of Thrones, Orange Is the New Black, Last Week Tonight, Rachel Maddow and online porn... it's a wonder anyone leaves the house anymore.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Comcast Outage Renews Calls for a Non-Corporate-Overlord Internet Provider in Seattle

  09-04-2015 22:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Is this how you feel right now? Robert Ullman
  I'm typing this right now thanks to the tech-wizardry of The Stranger's IT staff, which has our offices connected to the Internet on a backup DSL connection. The rest of you sucka Comcast customers, reportedly across Capitol Hill and other parts of Seattle, are screwed. Comcast says it's working to repair a fiber-optic cable in Madison Park and doesn't know when its service will back up and running. (This comes on the heels of CenturyLink, Comcast's
  
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• Who's Dumber? Sarah Palin, Carly Fiorina, or the New New Republic?

  09-04-2015 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Oh yeah, Carly Fiorina is just like Sarah Palin. Good point, New Republic. Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com
  The New Republic just gets dumber and dumber. It's so sad to watch the "brainpower" behind Facebook destroy an old magazine that used to be capable of greatness, a magazine that used to publish Virginia Woolf.
  Exhibit one million: This crazily stupid, undeniably sexist piece comparing Sarah Palin to Carly Fiorina. The headline calls Fiorina "Sarah Palin 2.0." What do Palin and Fiori
  
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• Seattle's Dystopian Present Brought To You By Comcast

  09-04-2015 21:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Times:
  Comcast crews are working to repair a damaged fiber-optic cable cut in the Madison Park area of Seattle, according Steve Kipp, vice president for communications for Comcast in Washington.
  Cable is out—which means TV and Internet—all over the Hill, Amazonia (South Lake Union), Pioneer Square, and downtown. Just took a walk up Broadway and you can't use a credit card to buy a slice at Pag's and the doorbells/intercom/entrance of at least one apartment building are all "i
  
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• Seattle's Dystopian Present Brought to By Comcast

  09-04-2015 21:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Times:
  Comcast crews are working to repair a damaged fiber-optic cable cut in the Madison Park area of Seattle, according Steve Kipp, vice president for communications for Comcast in Washington.
  Cable is out—which means TV and Internet—all over the Hill, Amazonia (South Lake Union), Pioneer Square, and downtown. Just took a walk up Broadway and you can't use credit card to buy a slice at Pag's and the doorbells/intercom/entrance of at least one apartment building is "inoperab
  
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• Local Police Departments Make Binding Agreements with FBI, Surveillance Tech Companies, to Withhold Surveillance Information from the Public

  09-04-2015 21:38 via thestranger.com
  
  From a letter in which the FBI tells the Erie County Sheriff's Office that it can use a stingray device as long as it agrees to mislead legislators, reporters, and the general public. Courtesy of the NYCLU
  After a lengthly struggle with the police department of Erie County, New York, the New York Civil Liberties union finally got ahold of records about its use of "stingrays"—surveillance devices that mimic cell-phone towers and track where your cell phone goes.
  The NYCLU published the reco
  
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• Belle and Sebastian, Perfume Genius at the Paramount

  09-04-2015 21:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle's Perfume Genius opened for Glasgow's twee-hearts Belle and Sebastian at the Paramount this past Tuesday. Photographer/show-seeer extraordinaire Josh Bis was kind enough to send us some beautiful shots from the show.A night of feelings! Josh BisMike Hadreas AKA Perfume Genius (those tights!).Josh Bis Those shoes!Josh BisBelle and Sebastian started their set with "Nobody's Empire." Josh BisStuart Murdoch's still go it! (And by "it" I mean a closet full of cardigans!)Josh BisBelle and Seba
  
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• The Gospel According to Aspiring City Council Member John Roderick

  09-04-2015 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  "It doesn’t matter if Seattle has a great selection of bars and nightclubs if we don’t also encourage talented young people to create new work to fill those nightclubs with fans of their music." Jim BennettIn a Slog post from April 6, Heidi Groover told you about Seattle musician and Music Commission member John Roderick’s plans to run for city council and his views on many issues. Now seems like an opportune time to get the singer/songwriter/guitarist to discuss in more depth
  
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• Scott McCaughey Tells the Sordid History of the Replacements-Young Fresh Fellows Alliance. Also: A Word About Reunion Haters

  09-04-2015 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Replacements and Young Fresh Fellows discuss who will pick up the check in the only language they understand: human pyramids Roger Estrada
  Scott McCaughey—friend, hero, and precious natural NW rock resource—has graced our sibling publication, the Portland Mercury, with A Match Made in Hell, a fantastic article about the history of the Young Fresh Fellows touring with the Replacements—including an account of the legendarily atrocious 1987 show in Portland. Memorable lines ab
  
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• Man dies after hiking near Mount St. Helens

  09-04-2015 19:46
  A Vancouver man who suffered an emergency while hiking east of Mount St. Helens on Saturday was rescued by a Navy helicopter but later died in a hospital.
  
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• Comcast service restored to 33,000 customers

  09-04-2015 19:24
  
  Comcast customers report outages in Seattle
  
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• Comcast service restored to 30,000 customers

  09-04-2015 19:24
  
  Comcast customers report outages in Seattle
  
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• Comcast customers report outages in Seattle

  09-04-2015 19:24
  
  Comcast customers report outages in Seattle
  
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• 33,000 customers may be out of 911 service due to Comcast fiber cable cut

  09-04-2015 19:24
  
  Comcast customers report outages in Seattle
  
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• What Do You See When You Look at This Bridge? A Real Painter Sits on Sheila Heti's Fictional Couch

  09-04-2015 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  This bridge is one of 21 paper backgrounds Sheila Heti discovered in a 1940s-era paper-doll set for Freudian analysts. On the bridge are three paper dolls chosen at random. Tony, an artist, was asked what he sees when he looks at this scene.
  Tony's apartment is undecorated and spare. He owns little, feeling that life is fundamentally unstable. He hasn't had a serious relationship in the half decade since leaving university, though he dates. He is an artist whose canvases are full of nightmarish
  
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• The Morning News: Protesters Take Over UW Regents Dinner, Road Rage Leads to I-5 Death

  09-04-2015 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  A group of protesters disrupted the Regents Dinner at the University of Washington Club yesterday evening. Among their demands: "freezing all tuition categories." Alex Garland
  University of Washington Regents Meeting Disrupted by Protesters: Alex Garland reports: "Approximately 75 students, workers, and union members met at the HUB and then marched to the The University of Washington Club for the Regents Dinner. After marching to the building, students formed a picket line, chanted 'Reclaim UW,'
  
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• Seattle Is Not Beautiful

  09-04-2015 16:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Something like what Seattle is. Charles Mudede
  Seattle is mostly unremarkable as a city. It's not a thing to really look at and remember. It has a spirit that's closer to a wet stone than a sparkling jewel. Our city is for looking outward. It is a platform from which one sees the wonders that surround it. New York City is a place that looks inward. It has no outside. All eyes are inside or on the stage, which is Manhattan. Brooklyn is a front-row seat to this monumental event. Walking around Sea
  
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• Family's cabin in NE Washington stolen off its foundation

  09-04-2015 16:42
  
  Family's cabin in NE Washington stolen off its foundation
  
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• Unsolved: Mystery of 35 gutted reptile carcasses in SW Wash.

  09-04-2015 16:42
  
  Unsolved: Mystery of 35 gutted reptile carcasses in SW Wash.
  
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• Coast Guard: Man who jumped off ferry fined $5,000

  09-04-2015 16:42
  
  Coast Guard: Man who jumped off ferry fined $5,000
  
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• There Are Hundreds of Pesticides Allowed on Recreational Weed, but No Pesticide Rules at All for Medical MarijuanaIf You Care About Ingesting Weed Free of Harmful Pesticides, You Need to Know a Crucial Difference Between Medical and Recreational Marijuana

  09-04-2015 16:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Natural born killers: Ladybugs keep pot plants spider-mite-free at Sea of Green, Seattle’s first licensed pot grower. Kelly O
  Before looking into it, I naively assumed Washington State's groundbreaking marijuana legalization law had given us a unique opportunity to do things "right," which meant, to my mind, a crop that's not only legal but pesticide-free, organic, and eco-friendly. Maybe we've all already given up hope when it comes to fruit and vegetables grown by giant agribusinesses, b
  
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• There Are Hundreds of Pesticides Allowed on Recreational Weed, but No Pesticide Rules at All for Medical Marijuana

  09-04-2015 16:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Natural born killers: Ladybugs keep pot plants spider-mite-free at Sea of Green, Seattle’s first licensed pot grower. Kelly O
  Before looking into it, I naively assumed Washington State's groundbreaking marijuana legalization law had given us a unique opportunity to do things "right," which meant, to my mind, a crop that's not only legal but pesticide-free, organic, and eco-friendly. Maybe we've all already given up hope when it comes to fruit and vegetables grown by giant agribusinesses, b
  
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• If You Care About Ingesting Weed Free of Harmful Pesticides, You Need to Know a Crucial Difference Between Medical and Recreational Marijuana

  09-04-2015 16:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Natural born killers: Ladybugs keep pot plants spider-mite-free at Sea of Green, Seattle’s first licensed pot grower. Kelly O
  Before looking into it, I naively assumed Washington State's groundbreaking marijuana legalization law had given us a unique opportunity to do things "right," which meant, to my mind, a crop that's not only legal but pesticide-free, organic, and eco-friendly. Maybe we've all already given up hope when it comes to fruit and vegetables grown by giant agribusinesses, b
  
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• Five Things I Learned at Sakura-Con

  09-04-2015 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Callan Berry Callan Berry [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Do You Know What's on Your Weed?

  09-04-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  There Are Hundreds of Pesticides Allowed on Recreational Weed, but No Pesticide Rules at All for Medical Marijuanaby Tobias Coughlin-BogueBefore looking into it, I naively assumed Washington State's groundbreaking marijuana legalization law had given us a unique opportunity to do things "right," which meant, to my mind, a crop that's not only legal but pesticide-free, organic, and eco-friendly. Maybe we've all already given up hope when it comes to fruit and vegetables grown by giant agribusines
  
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• Fish-stealing whales take bite out of black-cod harvest

  09-04-2015 07:46
  
  Frustrated Alaska fishermen have tried tactics like blasting heavy metal music from their boats to keep whales from stealing fish from their lines. To protect their catch, they are now talking about abandoning hooks and lines in favor of baited traps.
  
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• UW regents flee as student activists speak up

  09-04-2015 07:31
  
  Student activists with a list of demands disrupted a dinner meeting of the University of Washington regents.
  
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• Seattle School Board not keen to enter charter-school business

  09-04-2015 07:31
  
  Seattle School Board members Wednesday evening decided against applying to the state for the authority to approve charter schools.
  
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• LEAD program for low-level drug criminals sees success

  09-04-2015 07:01
  
  The plan’s architects hopeda new approach to dealing with low-level drug crimes would slow the number of peoplewho repeatedly cycle through the criminal-justice system. They have new stats to back up their early suppositions.
  
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• Renters near golf course evicted before U.S. Open

  09-04-2015 06:58
  
  Some renters near the Pierce County site of golf’s U.S. Open have been told to vacate their homes so the properties can be rented, at high prices, to people attending the golf event.
  
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• State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles says she’s running for King County Council

  09-04-2015 06:31
  
  State. Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, will enter the race to succeed Larry Phillips on the Metropolitan King County Council.
  
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• State buys 1,700 acres of forest on Olympic Peninsula

  09-04-2015 06:16
  The Washington state Department of Natural Resources is buying more than 1,700 acres of forestland north of the Quinault Indian Reservation on the western Olympic Peninsula.
  
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• A treehouse for bees

  09-04-2015 06:16
  
  Bee boxes for pollinators were brought out of winter storage and wereinstalled in trees Wednesday by workers at the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle.
  
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• Former judge works to make this a better place for kids

  09-04-2015 05:46
  A former judge’s work to make systems work better for children is having an impact.
  
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• Distracted-driving bill dies in Olympia

  09-04-2015 05:46
  A measure that would have banned drivers from sending emails and searching the Web won’t advance in the Legislature. The bans on texting and talking on a handheld cellphone remain in place.
  
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• 3 Washington state VA facilities fail to meet wait-list target

  09-04-2015 05:05
  The Associated Press examined waiting times at 940 VA hospitals and outpatient clinics around the nation to see how things might have improved since a scandal over delays and attempts to cover them up led to the resignation of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki.
  
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• An Important Not From U.s. Department of Justice

  09-04-2015 03:39 via thestranger.com
  
  A spam/scam email that manages to cast a compelling poetic spell... after the jump.U.s. Department of justice
  950 pennsylvania Avenue, Nw
  Washington, DC 205330-0001
  Department of justice
  Attention:
  The justice department hereby email you regarding the scam activities on the internet, we have a not right in front of us that you are having something to do with some internet spammers all in the name of the compensation funds and winning funds. this emails you get usually come from the spammers who
  
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• Feds to consider endangered species listing for spotted owl

  09-04-2015 03:31
  
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday that there is enough new scientific information in a conservation group’s petition to warrant a hard look at changing the northern spotted owl’s listing from threatened to endangered.
  
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• SLOG POLL: What Should Kshama Sawant Ask the Greenpeace Attractivists on Skype Tomorrow?

  09-04-2015 03:01 via thestranger.com
  
  "What do you do with your poops?" Vincenzo Floramo/Greenpeace
  Well, of course Kshama Sawant is going to Skype with those Greenpeace activists gone-viral—the ones currently stuck to the first of those Shell drilling rigs about to arrive in Seattle. (How could she not?)
  #TheSkyping will be going down at City Hall at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. (I will not be there.) What should she ask them?[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Whodathunkit: Helping Downtown Drug Addicts Get Off Drugs Makes More Sense Than Arresting Them

  09-04-2015 02:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Misty Barrickman and Chris Coates, her LEAD case manager. Ansel Herz
  Thirty-four-year-old Misty Barrickman used to get arrested in Belltown "constantly," she told me this afternoon. She was addicted to heroin and crack cocaine. She prostituted herself in order to fund her habit. But she knew she needed to get on methadone in order to break her addiction. Finally, she signed up for treatment. But on the streets, she kept getting arrested by Seattle police for low level street crimes, landing her
  
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• This Year's Newest, Rarest Soul Single—Curtis King's "You Took the Best of Me"

  09-04-2015 02:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Hearing a jam like Curtis King's "You Took the Best of Me" is EXACTLY why I can't quit obsessing over OLD records - there are still the best songs ever waiting to be discovered. I know as time passes, sussing out this kinda rarity evaporates exponentially, BUT that this kinda super scarce and genius single can STILL be mined, somehow, has me on lock. Anyway, until this morning, I only knew Curtis King from a lone single side—a smooth and solid soul stomper, "Bad Habits." He has a few recor
  
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• Free Will Astrology for the Week of April 8

  09-04-2015 02:00 via thestranger.com
  
  FESTA/SHUTTERSTOCK
  ARIES (March 21–April 19): Uitwaaien is a Dutch word that means to go out for a stroll in windy weather simply because it's exhilarating. I don't know any language that has parallel terms for running in the rain for the dizzy joy of it, or dancing through a meadow in the dark because it's such nonsensical fun, or singing at full volume while riding alone in an elevator in the mad-happy quest to purge your tension. But in the coming weeks, you don't need to describe or e
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: The End of the Affair(s)

  09-04-2015 01:42 via thestranger.com
  
  This is a bit of a long, fucked-up story.
  I've been having an affair with a older married woman with three kids for the past 10+ years. She claims her husband doesn't know about us, that she doesn't have sex with him anymore, and that she sleeps in a separate room. She requires me to be monogamous to her and, hence, doesn't allow me to date anyone else. You might wonder why on earth I put up with this, but we get along amazingly well. She's witty, funny, clever, intelligent, and drop-dead sexy.
  
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• Recommended Events for Stoners: Let's Play Master (Painter) and Servant. Plus: 3-D Printing and 3-D Dancing!

  09-04-2015 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Warner Sallman's Head of Christ.
  Artist Talk: Does 3-D Printing Publish Art?
  (ART) Wed April 8, Central Library (1000 Fourth Ave)
  Welcome to the future! Will 3-D printing ever be considered art? How exactly does that shit even work? See it happen in real time, before your very eyes, with examples on display, a slide show, and a lecture/Q&A with visual artist ReMike (aka Mike Leavitt). Truly an event to tell your friends' grandchildren about...
  
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• If We Want Better Conditions for Low-Wage Workers, Should We Get Rid of Tips?

  09-04-2015 01:10 via thestranger.com
  
  What do two of Seattle's leading Socialists think about tips? It's complicated. For example, Jess Spear (front row, third from left) believes that "we need to move away from tipping in general.” However, she says it's not time for that kind of move until the minimum wage gets higher than $15. Anna Minard
  Did you read Angela’s piece this week, in which servers told her how worried they are that getting rid of tips in favor of a higher wage and commission could actually hurt their bott
  
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• I Love Television: News Flash: I Look Dumb in a Hat

  09-04-2015 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Raylan politely shoots people.
  One of the great regrets of my life is that I look like an idiot wearing a hat. I JUST DON'T LOOK GOOD IN THEM!! And believe you me, I've tried on every type of hat: fedora hats, beret hats, porkpie hats, derby hats, cowboy hats, top hats, baseball hats, fez hats, pillbox hats, turban hats, Viking hats... but no matter what hat I try on, I look like the most awful a-hole on the planet. But the good news is, you look dumb in hats, too. In fact, you look nearly as ba
  
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