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Bob Lefsetz Thinks Everybody Should Listen To Average Country Music!

Bob Lefsetz Thinks Everybody Should Listen To Average Country Music!

Dave Lifton August 30, 2011 24

In which Bob possibly sets a new personal record for equivocation

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Popdose Roundtable: Hail to the Chief

Popdose Staff February 21, 2011 5

If everyone did a "Favorite Movie Presidents" post, would Popdose do it too? Yes, and then we'd jump off a bridge

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Political Culture: Ayn Rand Takes a (Midas) Mulligan

Jon Cummings December 10, 2009 17

When I was a senior in college, instead of prepping for a career as a Rand-ian Master of the Universe with high-level courses in economics or engineering, I chose a pair of classes in

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Sugar Water: Promise Some Peace, Win a Prize!

Robert Cass October 12, 2009 25

President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a decision that instantly created controversy. For one thing, Tina Fey wasn’t even nominated. For another, Obama’s been president less than nine months, and

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Sugar Water: Those Shoes Were Made for Throwin’

Robert Cass September 25, 2009 11

Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi TV reporter who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad last December, was released from prison on September 15 after serving nine months

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Dw. Dunphy On… “You Lie!”: The Backstory

Dw. Dunphy September 17, 2009 10

The outburst heard ’round the nation, at least until Kanye West co-opted the mike: South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson’s interjection during President Obama’s health care pitch to Congress. A million would-be pundits and chat

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Numberscruncher: The Poorer Americans

Ann Logue September 15, 2009 6

With pure obviousness, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that median household income in the United States fell to $50,303 in 2008, a 3.6 percent decline from 2007. Adjusted for inflation, that is the biggest

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Sugar Water: Black and/or White

Robert Cass June 30, 2009 18

Writer-producer-director Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing opened in theaters on June 30, 1989. “White people still ask me why Mookie threw the [trash] can through the window” at the film’s climax, he recently

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The Bigger Picture: Nothing to Fear

Arend Anton June 12, 2009 8

Appropriately for a week in which an Eddie Murphy movie is reaching theaters, Arend Anton devotes his latest Biggest Picture column to cinematic horror

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Sugar Water: “24” and the Enhanced Techniques of Viewer Torture

Robert Cass May 28, 2009 9

In February 2007 The New Yorker published “Whatever It Takes,” an article by Jane Mayer about the Fox series 24, and how the politically conservative views of the show’s creators, Joel Surnow and Robert

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