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Notice that Obama doesn’t say he forbids it, only that it’s a bad idea.

This sentence specifically – his approach to pot with his daughters – is interesting given the paragraph that directly follows. Just after this he analyzes the effects that privilege has on those who (are able to) use drugs, but in advising his daughters he forgets this same privilege: if Obama wasn’t the President, would he be in a position where he could could offer his daughters such lax advice?

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The word “word” is in Much Ado often used as a euphemism for sex, used to touch on the subject of virginity. See earlier in the scene: “I never treated her with word too large”, said by Claudio on the issue of Hero’s being a maiden.

Even after learning of her cousin’s death, Beatrice is still pretty witty. She doesn’t at the moment want Benedick to profess his love and pester her. Keeping this “‘word’ as sexual euphemism” in mind, a translation:

Why don’t you go get yourself off?

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If you really wanna game the system – which I do, I’ve been going to ‘potle now for 5 years and their chips have gotten smaller and more expensive, thanks McDonald’s! – get a burrito bowl.

You get way more food (they fill the bowl up!) and you can ask for a tortilla on the side anyways! Plus you don’t feel compelled to devour all of it in one sitting…

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Horowitz regularly begins his blog posts with references to rap lyrics. Check out this one for an example

This is from Ace Hood’s verse in the song “Blackball”. Read the annotations here!

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The master of baroque (if it ain’t baroque don’t fix it!), Mozart also composed the greatest piece of all time, his Requiem Mass in D minor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlhKP0nZII

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To find out if you were among the 4.6 million Snapchat user leak, enter your username here.

You too can hack Snapchat, all it takes is persistence and a 10-digit number generator!

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Even better is just how widely applicable this song’s title is. When Rich Homie Quan croons the chorus, you realize just how often we’ve all felt some types of way.

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Quite literally. Darkness and night are everywhere in Macbeth associated with death. It is obvious then, that Shakespeare is foreshadowing Banquo’s death through his own words. This line, when Banquo tells Macbeth that he is leaving by horse with Fleance (perhaps for fear of Macbeth’s recent violent tendencies – see the soliloquy delivered by Banquo in the same scene), marks that moment at which Macbeth internally begins formulating to murder the two of them. He then has murderers brought in and Banquo is eventually killed, though Fleance escapes, causing Macbeth to frantically worry over his own fate.

Better yet is that Banquo will only become “borrower of the night for a dark hour” [emphasis mine], because he later at a banquet appears to Macbeth as a bloodied apparition.

While it is of course not Macbeth’s first killing, Banquo was a friend and fellow general of Macbeth (they even saw the witches together!) – and in this instance he was not urged on by his wife; alone, his ambition shines through, as he attempts to kill the two of them out of the paranoia that has accompanied his bloody ascension to power. After Banquo, Macbeth is so wracked by insane fear that he has more killed – including a woman and her son – even as his wife herself begins to feel regret. Structurally, the climax (which without this line could not occur) matches this: after the murder of Banquo, Macbeth is wholly consumed by insecure delusions, while the plot decompresses, detailing Macbeth’s decline.

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