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I have to warn you, this is either going to be one of my weirdest posts, one of my most profound or both. Even if it sounds really pseudoscientific and downright preposterous at [...]
[This is the first in my attempt to write shorter posts for you lazy bastards.]
Ever since Governor Eliot Spitzer’s scandals, newspapers everywhere are doing profiles on call girls left and right. Some are about individual call girls, others are about the overall call girl industry, but the one conclusion many of these stories have in [...]
This is the final installment of Pimp Week. For this, it’ll be a straightforward post. I’ll be finishing the story I started in these two posts here and here.
When last we saw the pimp Iceberg Slim, he was being tested by his newest, prettiest whore in front of the rest of his stable of older, [...]
Two great pieces on the level of unconscious genius that goes into fast-paced athletics.
First is one from the blog The Situationist. It uses baseball players as a specific example.
The other is an older, but related piece from the New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell called “The Physical Genius.”
Not much commentary from me on this. Both links [...]
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Somewhat sad news. Chess champion Bobby Fischer is dead. The story of his life is one of great triumph followed by great tragedy:
Fisher went on to become a bizarre, shadowy figure (hence the irony of the title of the 1993 movie about a child chess prodigy, Searching [...]
