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   ~ Essays ~

--The Collapsible Triangle added 8/15/10
--Is It Me? It's Him, Right? added 6/19/10
--I Don't Want You To Be No Slave added 3/7/10
--If I Was Twice the Man I Could Be, I'd Still
   Be Half of What You Need added 2/16/10
--The Requisite Valentine's Day Essay added 2/14/10
--I'm Sick of This "Bro" Shit added 2/9/10
--Words for Women added 1/9/10
--Worst. Decade. Ever. added 12/31/09
--The Perfect Storm added 11/13/09
--1585 Learns the True Meaning of Hallowe'en added 10/28/09
--Objectivist Overruled added 9/30/09
--The Trouble with Moogwads added 9/12/09
--Yes, In Fact, You Do Have to Live Like a Refugee added 9/1/09
--Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 2: NOT "Electric Boogaloo" Because
  Everyone Is Sick of Calling Stuff "Something 2: Electric Boogaloo," It's Not
  Funny Anymore added 8/4/09
--On Performative Masculinity added 6/20/09
--The 1585 Sets Out to Make Fun of Dating Advice and Ends Up Uncovering
   a Massive Christian Media Conspiracy added 4/18/09
--Are You Not Entertained? added 3/23/09
--One a Month added 1/23/09
--You Know This, Man added 1/16/09
--The End of the Other N-Word? added 12/12/08
--Something Else But Mad added 11/12/08
--10 Reasons Why Atheists Should Still Vote for Obama added 9/27/08
--ARRRGH, FINE!! I'LL WRITE AN ESSAY ABOUT SARAH PALIN!! added 9/18/08
--Retorts to Retards: That's Not What "Smart" Means! added 8/13/08
--Mere LULZ Is Loosed upon the World added 7/25/08
--I Used to Be a Conservative added 6/14/08
--Is the Readiness All? added 4/23/08
--We've Got Magic to Do! added 4/4/08
--1585 Learns the True Meaning of Christmas added 12/8/07
--Retorts to Retards: The Secret Sexism of Sensitivity added 11/22/07
--Retorts to Retards: The Dr. Roger Olson Document added 11/9/07
--Return of Son of "Not a Free-Speech Issue" One More Time Again added 10/25/07
--Pump up the Volume: a 17th-Anniversary Retrospective added 9/1/07
--Sexo Grammaticus chats with Sapient & Kelly from RRS (audio file) 8/07
--A Religious Conservative & a Relativist Liberal vs. Michael Jordan added 7/23/07
--The Other N-Word added 6/16/07
--A Treatise in Support of the Idea that Constant Uncompromising Correction...
  added 6/3/07
--The Requisite Girls Gone Wild Essay added 5/18/07
--The 10 Stupidest Religious Beliefs added 5/4/07
--She Was a Girl from Bir-ming-HAM... added 4/24/07
--"Just Be Yourself...?!" Screw Yourself! added 4/10/07
--Why Byron? added 3/29/07
--The Requisite 300 Essay added 3/13/07
--Mayhem of the Antihookupites added 3/5/07
--On Patriotism added 3/3/07
--Are All Creationists Racist? added 2/19/07
--The Requisite Paris Hilton Essay added 2/7/07
--Spank Me Harder, Jesus!
--P.C. or Not P.C.?
--Marriage and the Two Religions
--My Dinner with Sexo
--On the Calling-Stupid of People
--What are Liberals & Conservatives?
--The Body-Image Essay to End All Body-Image Essays
--"You Can't Talk about My Religion!"
--A Pragmatic Pro-Gay-Rights Argument for Straight Men
--An Open Letter to Our Rousseauist Counterparts


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