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- Anthony Bourdain gets real in a thorough post-election interview: "We are a violent nation, from the beginning."
- Too Much TV: there were 455 different scripted television shows this year!
- Ta-Nehisi Coates thinks young writers and journalists should get off of Twitter while they can.
- McSweeney's killin' it with 2016: A Reboot Of 1984.
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- A man was pulled to safety after falling down a 15-foot deep hole at a Chelsea building site.
- Watch a clip from the third The Trip film, starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, and Mick Jagger impressions.
- The Awl has a helpful reminder that you don't have to say yes to everything.
- Jared Kushner is taking over DUMBO and trying to divest himself of the Observer.
- A Louisville shopper was caught on camera hurling insults at two other women in a racist tirade.
- And finally, this is the only way to get a cat to take a bath:
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