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Wed, 01/10/2025 - 22:31

He has worked desperately to secure a one-on-one meeting with Trump to shore up the deal to buy nuclear submarines under the AUKUS pact. Not satisfied with the $368 billion price tag of the subs, Albanese announced another $12 billion to build a new submarine repair base near Perth that could be used by US […]

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Wed, 01/10/2025 - 22:29
I have a long-standing pet peeve about the conflation of academic freedom and freedom of speech, especially in the context of (purported) campus debate. In order to illustrate why one should not conflate academic freedom and freedom of speech, I introduce two uncontroversial theses about each. Thesis [I]: lying and deception are protected features of […]
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Wed, 01/10/2025 - 22:00

To the woman at the bra store who clocked me as a “Gerry” in reference to my G-cup breasts when I was coming of age,

I’m certain you haven’t spared one thought for me since our only encounter nearly twenty years ago. But your impact on my life has been so significant that I’m compelled to write to you now—especially as I find myself reaching to readjust a new bra that just doesn’t fit right.

The year was 2006. “Temperature” by Sean Paul and “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield were on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. I was trying to survive high school.

And my breasts were enormous.

Granted, you may not have appreciated how embarrassing that was for me at the time. I’m sure you met people like me every day, which is to say, fools, with deep grooves in their shoulders caused by ill-fitting bras. But my enormous breasts were not something I had yet come to terms with—that is, until that fateful day when I met you.