The Morning After: Rick Rolled Edition
* Slate's XX Factor hashes it out over Rick Warren. Sara Mosley hates Warren, but admits that "engagement with the other side" sometimes "makes everyone a little unhappy and uncomfortable." Noreen Malone thinks Obama's "selling out." Hannah Rosin thinks this is all "liberal group think" that amounts to "pretending evangelicals don't exist"—and calls to let Warren speak for himself.
* In inauguration dating news: This 40-year-old seeks a date for a ball; this out-of-town 26-year-old is looking for a place to stay—not for the inauguration, just any old time.
* Local poet Sandra Beasley wrote this week's XX Files essay on how to fake it: If "it" means becoming an impromptu motorcycle model for a televised magic show:
The director hadn't instructed us on attitude, so I kept rotating expressions. Ten seconds smiling. Ten second scowling. Ten seconds of terrified, we're-crushing-him! face. We kept rolling. Down the ramp. Steve cut the engine.
"That's it?" I asked.
* The Candy Pitch presents: The Twelve Days of Christmas, burlesque style.
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