It’s been a great week! Don’t forget to tip your waitress!<\/p>\n
Okay, we start off with another (horrifying) Required Reading: exploding the notion of “Breast Cancer Awareness month”<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Biological class warfare . . . in Brooklyn<\/a>!<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n How to make Mariah Carey tasteful<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Why does anyone watch bicycle racing<\/a>? I mean, I know every other sport has PED use behind the scenes, but cycling seems uniquely set up for it.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Tony Curtis: you can take it with you<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Cory Booker and Chris Christie: perfect together<\/a>. (NJ joke)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Girls with guns: Jessica Simpson and the angry half-inch<\/a>. (Courtesy of Robert Wilonsky)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Bonus Wilonsky link (in memory of his late, lamented Ultimate Trailer Show): A rabbi’s (overlong) request that we slow down! Enough with the everything-ing<\/a>!<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Meanwhile, back at the Gin Palace<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n And the killer was . . . Philip, the pizza delivery guy<\/a>! (Or, as I tweeted: “Then there was the time I was gonna meet MLK and Malcolm X but I got this really bad papercut . . .”<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a great week! 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