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Taking Liberties: The TSA — “A Little Temporary Safety”
Popdose's Revival House columnist Jeff Johnson tells of his recent run-in with the TSA, in which he was told he couldn't take pictures even though it specifies on TSA's website that photography is permitted
Read More »Random Play: “Born This Way”
Still unsure whether kids are born gay? Robin Monica Alexander spotlights a new blog whose emphatic and adorable response is yes
Read More »Sugar Water: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Say Anything Even Mildly Offensive
When Captain Owen Honors was demoted by the U.S. Navy on January 4 for in-house videos he made almost five years earlier, he learned an important lesson: electric cars aren't gay
Read More »Political Culture: We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are Us
Can taking the vitriol down a notch really prevent another tragedy like Tucson? Jon Cummings explores the state of our discourse - and his own culpability
Read More »Sugar Water: Have You Had a Skin Orgasm Lately?
Music-derived chills, or "skin orgasms," are experienced by certain personality types, especially during the holidays. Robert Cass goes up close and waaaay too personal to introduce readers to this phenomenon
Read More »The Pop Culture Year That Wasn’t: Top Stories of (Fake) 2010
Popdose teams up with world-renowned CAP News for a look at the most important pop culture stories of the past year. February: Stern Gets Ellen, Kara DioGuardi to Kiss at Idol Audition HOLLYWOOD (CAP)
Read More »Political Culture: Greetings, Fellow Hostages!
President Obama may have given up the store on tax cuts this week, but at least he coined a useful metaphor in the process. Still, is it the GOP holding the recovery hostage, or
Read More »The Popdose Interview: Jon Bard and Bruce Brodeen of Rock and Roll Tribe
New media tends to identify itself as a youth market, and is very self-aware of this. So too, a person of a certain, shall we say, vintage might feel uncomfortable popping around Facebook (and
Read More »Political Culture: Everybody Into The Conflictinator!
Chastened by Jon Stewart, if not the midterm election results, Jon Cummings invites Popdose readers to Be Their Own Pundits and pontificate on our new politics
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… The Kids Are Not Alright
Sometimes nostalgia can sicken a person. Here’s an example: remember when you could get into a fight in school and only get your nose broken? Now you could get your head blown off for
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