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The Thundering Herd

“Between April 12 and 17, 1945, the 8th Armored Division moved into central Germany. There, it liberated Halberstadt-Zwieberge, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The area around the city of Halberstadt housed a number of Buchenwald subcamps that had been established in 1944 to provide labor for the German war effort. These included Halberstadt-Zwieberge I and […]

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I Smash Rocks

An open letter to Bally Sports, AT&T, and Spectrum: Hello fellow cocaine enthusiasts! I hate to interrupt what must be an exciting day of yacht racing in Dubai with Mitt Romney, but I’m afraid I must. It’s regarding your cable television products, and how much I hate them, and how much I hate you, because […]

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We cannot cancel your gym membership

In my thirties, I got a bit chunky. Not an unreasonable level of chunky, I’d just accumulated enough body fat for a passer-by to think “that man could not jog for more than ten minutes without needing a coronary.”  I’ve heard this referred to, in my line of work, as “programmer gut” and hearing that […]

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