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When I was single and meeting girls through the internet, there were certain questionnaire-responses that were dealbreakers. One question was, “What is a single or album that turns you on?” Anyone who answered with “Radiohead” was off my list. Similarly, there were a whole bunch of books that disqualified<\/a> otherwise worthy girls.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n George Will (sorta) supports my thesis that Las Vegas is an alien theme park for planet earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n The anti-Ehrenreich:<\/a> Adam Shepard tried to work $25 and the clothes on his back into a home, a car, and $2,500 in savings in one year.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Death of a Breakdancer<\/a> (apologies to Robert Townsend)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Redemption of an analyst<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Vodkapundit goes cover to cover<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Witold Rybczynski on the oxymoronicity (?) of the Pritzker Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Michael Bierut laments the Camden Yards-ification of baseball parks<\/a>: The retro-future ain’t what it used to be. 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