[Spring 2018 UPDATE: This post was published in 2013. Since then, it’s become the most popular post in the history of my blog. This is very surprising considering my blog is neither targeted to mormons, nor written by a mormon. But to this day I have no clue what’s made this my top post, ever:…
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[This edition brought to you by the lovely “fashionistas” at Harper’s Bazaar who drool over practically anything expensive any designer puts out. My experience with this magazine in particular has taught me that if I haven’t chuckled at at least one of the crazy weird/inaccessible/expensive things it features, I haven’t actually given it the attention it deserves.] In…
The following was inspired by this previous post (on which I included this article about the current Occupy Wall Street movement). Yes, there is corporate greed. Yes, there is what some call corporate corruption. And yes, lobbyists are quite adept at playing the system to satisfy corporate interests.But what should we call a system in which a…
… From a Lovingly Overprotected Daughter… This past weekend my mom and I were watching La Vita E Bella* (in Italian, no less– well, with English subtitles), and I couldn’t help but cry after the movie had ended, when my mom said the following (in Spanish, but here’s my best attempt at remembering and translating…