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How To Spend Valentine’s Day If You’re Single
(Answer: Go Get Drunk.)Our beloved sex columnist Julieanne Smolinski on the right way to tackle this holiday if you don’t have anyone to tackle it with. Click here for the full piece. A sample below:
While all holidays have their detractors, nobody quite wigs out over the others like they do for Valentine’s Day. In fact, people seem to like Thanksgiving (except for the travel), Halloween (except for having to be nice to children and hos), the Fourth of July (except for dogs), St. Patrick’s Day, New Year’s, Labor Day, and so on. I think the thing that they all have in common is booze.
This is why I’ve learned to treat Valentine’s as an unofficial drinking holiday.
Think about it for a second.
People love drinking holidays because your only obligations are to make sure you eat enough dip and don’t take your top off. The best drinking holidays are the ones where you don’t have to see your parents, and are instead encouraged to parade around with other drunk people in some kind of dumb hat. There’s no anxiety about being alone, because you’re not alone, you’re with that guy in the oversized sunglasses and the Dr. Seuss hat. He’s fun, and you think his name is Greg. Single people have known this for years, but it goes double for you couples, whether your relationship is fresh or comfortably shopworn.
I know lots of women and men who agonize over Valentine’s Day, when they should just be celebrating the gropiest part of their relationship. You don’t need to come up with some elaborate homespun craft or suspendered crotchless number—just go to a dark hotel bar and drink martinis until you do things you tell stories about at brunch.
I should have had the balls to call any one of the hotties, and ask if they were down…
The fact that there was any debate over whether to call in experts on such a matter should tell you something about the integrity of Congress. It’d be one thing if legitimate technical questions directed at the bill’s supporters weren’t met with either silence or veiled accusations that the other side was sympathetic to piracy. Yet here we are with a group of elected officials openly supporting a bill they can’t explain, and having the temerity to suggest there’s no need to “bring in the nerds” to suss out what’s actually on it… The chilling takeaway of this whole debacle was the irrefutable air of anti-intellectualism; that inescapable absurdity that we have members of Congress voting on a technical bill who do not posses any technical knowledge on the subject and do not find it imperative to recognize those who do.
This used to be funny, but now it’s really just terrifying. We’re dealing with legislation that will completely change the face of the internet and free speech for years to come. Yet here we are, still at the mercy of underachieving Congressional know-nothings that have more in common with the slacker students sitting in the back of math class than elected representatives. The fact that some of the people charged with representing us must be dragged kicking and screaming out of their complacency on such matters is no longer endearing — it’s just pathetic and sad.
This used to be funny, but now it’s really just terrifying. We’re dealing with legislation that will completely change the face of the internet and free speech for years to come. Yet here we are, still at the mercy of underachieving Congressional know-nothings that have more in common with the slacker students sitting in the back of math class than elected representatives. The fact that some of the people charged with representing us must be dragged kicking and screaming out of their complacency on such matters is no longer endearing — it’s just pathetic and sad.
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Joshua Kopstein, Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works (via drinkyourjuice) —- Agreed. |
