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Culturally Speaking #14:
The I-don't-have-time-to-think-so-I'm-linking-to-people-who-do Edition

By Sarah Stodola

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An 11-year-old gave birth last week.  The weirdest thing I learned in this article, though, is that the Guinness Book of World Records used to bestow the honor of "youngest mother."

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This is just about as terrifying as watching the national debt rise and rise and rise...

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Strikingly accurate review of Mcsweeney's - the good, the bad and the condescending.

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Question I have had to think about this week: What is the difference between a life coach and a shrink? Is one just a euphemism for the other? Anyone?

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About 43 people have raved to me lately about the movie The Battle of Algiers. It's still playing at the Film Forum.

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Yet another essay on the United States as Empire.

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George W. Bush is apparently planning to increase funding for the National Endowment for the Arts in 2005. I feel there absolutely must be a catch.

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To anyone who has ever read Gertrude Stein: With respect to the respect of the thing I'm not sure how I feel about the composition of the composition.

There, I thought for just a few seconds. Time's up.

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Sarah Stodola is the Managing Editor of Me Three.  She can be contacted at [email protected].

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