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After letterman negotiated an interim agreement with the writer’s guild of america (WGA), the late show went back on the air last night.

Probably based on his experiences during the strike of 1988, Letterman is not going to cross the writers’ picket lines again:

David Letterman stood on the set of “Late Night,” looked out at his studio audience, and experienced a version of the classic Actor’s Nightmare. “We have nothing to do,” the talk-show host said. “The writers aren’t here.” To fill the time, he got a shave on the air.

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this election coverage leaves me… bored. It’s even putting the candidates to sleep, but maybe they just need some nose candy,

This is hilarious–published in volume The Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Corporate Thinking from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Design: Researchers asked couple dozen college students (for research credit) to pretend that they owned a small business and were interviewing potential employees. The participants were 19 ovulating women with an average age of 19years and 15 men with a mean age of 22years; all of the participants were heterosexual and righthanded.
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