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Vote NO on Issue Beelzebub
Several years back — three years ago to the day, actually — we posted a “Memo To The Squirrel Who Defaced Our Pumpkin.” Several readers thought perhaps the nefarious squirrel, whose eyes burned like the fires of hell, was simply … Continue reading
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On Nicholas Sparks & Failure.
Newsweek has a back-page feature called “My Favorite Mistake” wherein celebrities share just that: their favorite mistake. Some of these are enlightening and amusing. Some are written by Nicholas Sparks. In the most recent issue, Sparks wrote that his favorite … Continue reading
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Old Navy & Grammatical Heinousness
Old Navy commercials are the worst. They’re too lame to be ironic, too kitsch to be redeeming. We feel empty after letting them steal thirty seconds of our life. They are just soul-suckingly bad. Turns out Old Navy also stinks … Continue reading
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Ill Fares The Land
x Mark Hoobler loaned me (Ben) Tony Judt’s Ill Fares The Land, and I’ve been reading it slowly, in bits and pieces before bed over the past several weeks. Judt, who died last year, makes an eloquent case for social … Continue reading
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You Mean Entertainment Weekly Wasn’t Telling The Truth?
Item! The Miami New Times recently released its list of the Top Ten Cheapest Celebrity Tippers. Guess who’s number five? For fun, we’ll redact his name from the following paragraph and see if you can still guess it! Xxxxxx Xxxxx, according … Continue reading
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Things We Did Not Expect To Be Doing This Summer
Three weeks ago we met with our realtors. We discussed, broadly, what we should be doing now to prepare for buying a new home sometime in the next few years. Yesterday, Sunday, we had an open house. Half of our … Continue reading
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Entertainment Weekly’s Pro-Piven Agenda
I’m a man of the people. I do yoga! x What should we find when we opened the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly but this bit of nefarious propaganda under the headline, “Jeremy Piven Needs You To Know That He’s … Continue reading
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Friday Strongly Does Not Recommend: The Lovely Bones
This may look like heaven. Don’t be fooled. x Bad movies are a dime a dozen. Disastrously bad movies are more rare. The Lovely Bones is one of them. A disastrously bad movie needs to squander great potential. The Lovely … Continue reading
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Debt Ceiling Cat.
[SCENE: Floor of Congress.] SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER: I am open to proposals to reform the tax code so long as they won’t raise taxes on the American people. MINORITY LEADER NANCY PELOSI: John, how is closing tax loopholes equivalent to … Continue reading
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