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The Slice archive for July 2014

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014



TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2014

Just wondering

Are there any situations where flipping off another driver in traffic is not just pointless, immature, low-class, potentially road-rage inciting and possibly a gross misinterpretation of events but is, in fact, a socially corrective expression of mild frontier justice saying "I clearly saw what you…

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Do you plan to watch this? 

www.atlantafalcons.com This year's series starts a week from today on HBO. I would argue that this show is 10 times more entertaining than an actual NFL game. I got hooked a few years ago when the New York Jets head coach was watching a drill…

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Punting situation

My older sister graduated from high school eight years before I did. Our lives moved in different orbits. But one time there was an odd crossover. My seventh grade football coach had been a classmate of hers. When he discovered that I was her brother,…

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MONDAY, JULY 28, 2014











SUNDAY, JULY 27, 2014

Chemical warfare against wasps 

I would prefer to abide by a live-and-let-live policy. But the wasps that have built a nest above our garage doors will not listen to reason. And clearly, they have no collective memory of last summer's conflict. (It did not go well for them.) The…

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SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2014

Conversations with the car ahead 

You know how you can find yourself glancing at decals and stickers on the back of the vehicle ahead of you at a traffic light? Sure. And sometimes you can imagine a conversation with the driver based on the information before you. Well, here's my…

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