Top 10 reasons why the BMI is bogus

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Another literary award keeps out the sf rabble.

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The short straw

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The death of macho.

Four Reasons Women Dig Geeks

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Freudian slip?

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Writer flings online poo at reviewer. Refrains from giving out reviewer's home phone number.

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She felt as desperate as someone trying to dream up a startlingly new entry in a contest that had run on way too long, so that everyone was writing verbose, formulaic entries and maybe it was all a karmic payback for treating "It was a dark and stormy night"* as such a horrible opening that its creator should be mocked forever for writing it.

*Yes, I know that the sentence continues past that, but many people quote the opening as if it were bad enough by itself, and this year I have access to an eloquent defense of Bulwer-Lytton.

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Religious rightist explains that it is easy for me to tolerate same-sex marriage, because unlike most men I am heterosexual.

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Another socialist scheme from Obama

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"I have watched the highest officials in my government bickering about different forms and degrees of torture, still relying on the primitive tools of fear, dominance, and injury without any recognition of what any dolphin trainer knows: that aversives stop behavior, they don't start it; and that fear and pain produce completely unpredictable and usually highly undesirable side effects, including being both exciting and reinforcing to the punisher."--Karen Pryor

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Coming out atheist vs. coming out gay. Me, I've been out as an agnostic for years.

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Texas Cops Celebrate Stonewall Anniversary by Raiding Gay Bar

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Fat Satan

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