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Buy!

Super Happy Capitalist Winter Extravaganza is near at hand! Most of you know this holiday by its much less cumbersome and more familiar name, Christmas. But let’s face it: Christmas is about buying stuff for people you like and getting stuff from them, in a fantastic orgy of sales and deco­ra­tions, smothered in a gooey outpouring of happy delicious good will. Hooray, Capitalism! In the spirit of the lively exchange of gifts, I have published The List. See the hat on the “W” in the header? You can click that, too. Not only do I like getting things for Christmas, but I like buying them for other [ . . . ]

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Introducing the Excitement! Category

Since the beginning of the semester, the University has received a fairly consistent (and consis­tently bogus, but nonetheless consis­tently disruptive) stream of bomb threats.  One day, one building.   The next, another.  It was almost like some lazy and mischievous under­graduate, displeased with the crepus­cular hour of his first class of the day, decided to send a little email.  A new one for each building for each day of the week.  They were always resolved without incident, and an arrest was made after the second one.  But alack, alas!  The perpe­trators are multi­farious and inde­pendent, engaging in wicked, wicked copycat mischief!  They have continued, [ . . . ]

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