Dear Joe, John, Jack, Harry, Michael, Zach (the name really isn’t important, is it? At the end of the day you’re all interchangeable in a long list of disappointments)
I’d love to sit here and say that you have me convinced, but you don’t. See, the thing about love is that it renders people blind. They’re unable to recognize the blaring-fucking-red-flags waving in their pretty-little-faces.
I’ve been there before, many-a-time, so my judgment remains reserved–hoping you’ll turn out to be someone worthy of her, but as the days go by…I think we both know that’s not going to happen.
Who hasn’t dated a liar? A cheat? An unmotivated moron? The guy who is perpetually late? or broke? or cannot possibly admit to being wrong? The list of scumbaggery is endless.
The question is, why? Why...
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Hey. How are you? I feel like this is when I should tell you how much I miss you, but a part of me knows you probably don’t care. If you did, we’d probably still be friends…right? But I still hope you think of me on occasion and miss me too.
It’s been months since we last talked—who would’ve seen that coming? I know I definitely didn’t. So much has happened since we last spoke, and I’ve wanted you to know it all. Isn’t that twisted? Even though we’re no longer friends, I still want to tell you all the things I used to. And it sucks because you’re not that person to me anymore.
You were the one person I was supposed to be able to count on for anything. You used to be a phone call away—but suddenly you stopped answering. You were supposed to always look out for me—but then you were...
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Dear Friend,
Although I haven’t seen you in a while I just kind of want you to know I’m thinking of you. We come and go, in and out of each other’s lives so gracefully. And although I’m not with you every weekend, and I don’t always know what you’re up to, I want you to know how much I still love you regardless.
I’ve come to learn, especially in adulthood, how quickly you can lose friends - and not just friends, but people you once considered your best friends too.
But with you, it’s never a question of what terms we’re on. We seem to just pick up where we left off each time. We laugh like time and distance hasn’t separated the two of us. I love you like family. I value you more than anyone, even if I don’t convey it. I quietly smile when you like something on my social media and...
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To my second mom,
I've shared a friendship with your daughter for years now; a friendship that has made me laugh until I've cried, one that made high school a little more bearable, and one that put me back together after my first heartbreak. When I look back, I realize that my most valuable friendship couldn't have been possible without you.
I'll start off with my much overdue apologies. I'm sorry for all those nights you've lost sleep because we were laughing obnoxiously, and for making you watch our homemade Taylor Swift music videos. I'm especially sorry you knew me during all of my awkward stages (6th grade was a killer).
On a more serious note, I also owe you a million thank you's. I've thanked you for the huge things you've done, like taking me on week-long vacations for...
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Dear U.S. members of the Internet community:
Now that the Communications Decency Act (CDA) has been signed into law, many
decision makers in business, academic, and other organizations are writing
EFF to inquire whether and how to bring their systems into compliance with
the new statute. We have received a deluge of inquiries about assessing the
risks of non-compliance, and of simply maintaining the status quo and
operating as usual.
We believe, as do many members of Congress, that this law is patently
unconstitutional. The new statute violates the First Amendment by being both
overbroad and vague. This makes it exceedingly difficult for us to advise
you in a reliable way about what you can do to avoid risks (other than the
unacceptable choice of having to shut down...
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Dear Dr. Dawkins,
Earlier this week, on Twitter, you drew attention to a troubling fact unknown to most people. You pointed out that in the United States and Europe, most children conceived with Down syndrome are aborted. You’re right. Some experts put the number as high as 90 percent. Others suggest that only 65 percent, or 70 percent, or 80 percent of children with Down syndrome are aborted. The actual number is probably very difficult to determine. You have a platform, Dr. Dawkins, an audience, and in some real way I’m very grateful that you drew attention to the pre-natal eradication of people with Down syndrome.
But you made your point about the ubiquity of Down syndrome abortion in order to defend a terrible assertion. You suggested on Twitter, Dr. Dawkins, a moral imperative...
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Dear Richard,
I must admit I am very confused.
I have been thinking about all the great stuff you have done, the example of creative leadership you have exhibited, the energy and the ambition with which you have approached your work in loads of sectors, your belief in the next generation, not to mention your great work in trying to get us all into space!!
.....And then there is Virgin Money Giving...
It just doesn't fit with the rest of your work, it lacks any obvious creative imagination, it challenges nothing in our mindsets, offers no unique value, and honestly looks like it hasn't been updated since the millennium. Much as your your Instagram quote yesterday from Tony Robbins points to, it 'Changes Nothing and therefore Nothing Changes'
You have cheapened what could be...
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Dear Tristram Hunt MP,
You have probably never heard of me, and there is no reason why you should. But I felt moved to write to you because a rather freakish and unusual series of events has brought our names into the same orbit. Today, while driving home, I heard on the radio that you have asked Jeremy Corbyn to distance himself from the Stop the War organization by not attending their annual fundraising dinner, because according to you STW is a ‘disreputable’ organization.
Had I heard this on any other weekend, I would have thought that this was just another attempt by a rightwing Labour MP to undermine Jeremy Corbyn and the Stop the War movement.
I wouldn’t have been happy to hear this, of course. Because unlike you, what I find really disreputable is when governments...
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Dear Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber,
Not so long ago your company was going so totally nowhere-but-up- up-up, we thought you’d soon roll out an Uber-Batmobile, just because you could. Because that’s the kind of thing you’d do, because the bigger you’ve become and the more we’ve come to know you, the more of an alpha-pony show-off you’ve revealed yourself to be.
Who else would, in the nut-buzzing giddiness of explaining how easy it is to get laid when you’re the head of a company last valuated at $18.2 billion, tell a GQ writer that the female curation process could be thought of as “Boob-er”? It’s the kind of bravado that might propel you up the hill, and the gusto to blow you off the cliff.
And your man Emil Michael? Uber’s senior VP of business said what at a party to fucking...
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Dear Bro Shkreli,
Bro! How’s it bro-ing, bro? The bros are worried about you! Look, no bro ever wants to step on another bro’s party vibe, popped-collar positioning, or temporary girlfriend, but you’ve been blasting out some pretty un-bro choices, bro!
When you, like, monster-bought that drug patent for that killer AIDS drug Daraprimus, or whatever, me and the bros were like, “SWISH! Can I get an amen? Pants-off lights-on f#@kers, we’re fighting immunodeficiency viruses with our dicks! BOOM!” And then you, like, went and raised the price on it from $13 per pill to $750 each, and we were like, “yeah, uhh…I mean, we’re doing it still, the dick thing. Cool, I guess…right?” After much discussion and, like, six BuzzFeed Venn diagram consults, we realized it actually isn’t that cool.
You’re...
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