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Mizzou’s football team is forcing me to like them (again): A links round-up

How to Compliment a Guy. New York Mag continues to do such important cultural work. Also, this is a thousand percent true: Girls compliment each other all the time. Guys only get compliments if they have beards or cool cars.

You’ve shut up about Hamilton yet, or nah? NOPE. The AV Club has some praise to heap upon that show for its portrayal of women.

How to apologize.

Brazil’s war on poverty suggests that giving cash to poor families is a good way to reduce poverty. Also, having a good economy. So, not shocking?

I’m obsessed with financial practicalities, as you’ll know if you spend any amount of time day-to-day talking with me, so this article about where various indie sites get their money from is fascinating to me. You should also click on Nicole Cliff’s Storify about funding The Toast.

The more regency dances you learn, the more you start to understand why the waltz seemed like such a scandal.

Chile admits that Pablo Neruda may have been murdered by the Pinochet regime. Um, wut? Is — should we follow up on that in some way?

Mainly just bookmarking this article about wedding dresses so that when I want to describe a type of sleeve, I’ll have this article’s handy sleeve diagram handy.

If you’re wondering about all that business going down in Missouri, Code Switch has a round-up of good articles about the whole situation; or, in which Mizzou’s football team again forces me to like them even though my policy is to hate all SEC teams except for my own.