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Ted Asregadoo
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The day LinkedIn announced Microsoft was buying the company, I deleted my LinkedIn profile.
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Robert Cass
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“I’m sorry I’ve been hard to reach lately. I’m having what you might call a dark night of the soul.”
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Robert Cass
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“I’ve been called good, bad, stormy, strange — you name it.”
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Dw. Dunphy
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When your candidate takes no position and you fill in your own blank, be wary of what you actually get.
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Dw. Dunphy
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What if the economy was actually better and our sense of entitlement was worse?
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Robert Cass
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The zombies of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” promise to eat your heart out when they return for the series’s midseason premiere this Valentine’s Day.
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Dw. Dunphy
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Public radio that does not study Fox News’ history is doomed to repeat it.
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Dw. Dunphy
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We’re all driving up to that same rest stop. Seeing those who aren’t going back out on the road ever again is inevitable.
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Ted Asregadoo
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They say there are strangers, who threaten us/In our immigrants and infidels
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Ted Asregadoo
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Why do politicians make racist comments? Because it can get them elected.
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Jonny Balfus
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Like Run-DMC, me and My Adidas do the illest things. You know, slaying all suckers who perpetrate, laying down law from state to state. And when I travel on gravel, dirt road…
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Ted Asregadoo
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The Popdose Interview with filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi on her new HBO documentary “San Francisco 2.0”
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Ted Asregadoo
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The stock market crash leads to the inevitable question: is the sky falling?
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Jonny Balfus
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Take a look at the picture above. Do you know what it is? Can you identify it? Of course you can! You probably remember its catchy ”Gimme a break” jingle….
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Jonny Balfus
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A few nights past Dr. Keepit and I watched ”Finding Vivian Maier,” a documentary about an unknown photographer whose street scenes, cityscapes and studies of ordinary people rival those of…
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Pete Chianca
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Sure, the government’s a mess, the environment is spiraling out of control and American cities are actually burning. But that doesn’t mean we can’t take time to consider some of the reasons…
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Dw. Dunphy
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The comedian is waging a silent defense of rape allegations, and the nation faces a crisis of conscience.
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Ted Asregadoo
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The Democratic Party’s Strategy for the 2014 Midterms: “Run Away! Run Away!”
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Jonny Balfus
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Just so you know, this isn’t a sexy article. It’s about recent legal developments concerning grey market goods; not some pervy tycoon and his obsession with nubile coeds. Sorry! Now…
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Jack Feerick
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It’s been a little more than a week since Slate published a piece that — across your Old Professor’s little corner of the Internet, anyway — touched off a firestorm….
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Jack Feerick
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Critical objectivity can be difficult to sustain. As members of the family, we have an implicit contract with our readers to consider each work on its own merits, without undue…
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Jack Feerick
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There’s a feeling you get. You know the one. You’re listening. It’s a song you’ve heard before, maybe many times. Heard it, but really never listened. One of those songs…
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Dw. Dunphy
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If your kid is starving for your love while you’d rather be crushing it on Candy Crush, you may be an iHole.
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Jack Feerick
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The second season of Vikings, last year’s basic-cable breakout hit, is coming into its homestretch, and the intrigues are piling up. Handsomely shot on locations in Ireland and Canada, and…
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Jack Feerick
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There’s a new top dog on the Young Adult block. The film adaptation of Veronica Roth’s bestselling YA novel Divergent opened a couple of weeks ago to stellar box office…