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Wesleyan University, my alma mater, is a small liberal arts school that gets a disproportionate amount of media coverage, usually for its uber-liberal ways. It has made the press for having a naked dorm and co-ed rooms. This time we made the headlines, and we didn’t have to take our clothes off. [...]

Read Obama crashes the party »

“If Coachella and Burning Man had a kid, that kid would be Lightning in a Bottle.”
For those who have been to the first two festivals mentioned above, Lightning in a Bottle co-founder Jesse Flemming’s description of his four day party in the Santa Barbara-adjacent woods makes perfect sense.
However, should you have no reference point for [...]

Read Festival review: Lightning in a Bottle »

Oooh, this week has been a fun one, hasn’t it?
Hillary stuck her foot in her mouth with a comment that seemed to imply she would stay in the race just in case someone offed Obama the same way they did RFK.  Contextually, she spoke about her husband securing the nomination in June, and then [...]

Read The weekend roundup: foot in mouth disease »

It’s late October.  It’s 3 a.m. There’s a phone ringing…
This sounds oddly familiar.
Right in the twilight of October, while we’re warming up to Winter’s fate, Obama and McCain will try to make the case: a vote for their ticket will be a vote to keep this country in perpetual Spring, the literary season of ebullience, [...]

Read Indiana Max and the crystal ball »

globecrumple.jpgKermit was WRONG!…sort of. It’s easy(er) to be green, just let The Do Lab show you where to set the bar and how to clear it.

Read It’s easier being green »

If you’ve ever watched The Wire, you have an appreciation for how it brilliantly characterizes the actions of entire organizations as the whims of a few men in power.  Even in a fictionalized world imbued with caricature to prove a point, it’s still frightening to see back-scratching and petty power struggles between city officials [...]

Read Boys and their games »

shh.jpgYou can watch it on TV. You can even do it. But don’t think about it. And whatever you do, please don’t talk about it!

Read Sex, lies, and stereotypes »

This is just downright absurd.

Read All hands on deck »

Here at P+P, we are constantly re-thinking the best ways to organize content and deliver a reading experience outside the punditry and beltway-blogger echo chamber. As such, we’d like to offer up a new permanent Monday fixture that will throw out some hand-picked stories from the weekend for your reading pleasure, along with some [...]

Read The weekend roundup »

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Read The web’s best kept secret »
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