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Jeff Giles
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Some thoughts on love, and our struggle to feign order from chaos.
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Jon Cummings
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Can’t the populist right and left just get along?
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Dw. Dunphy
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Real people died on 9-11 and in the aftermath. Why can’t the media respect the privacy of its mourners, Popdose.com columnist Dw. Dunphy wonders.
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Popdose Staff
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There’s a noted lack of political commentary in modern pop music. Is that such a bad thing?
Jon Cummings
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How did the Tea Party force a stupid deal, prove itself unfit to govern … AND simultaneously send the economy over a cliff? Jon Cummings spots the jokers in the deck.
Popdose Staff
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Jeff Giles: Think someone in the Bachmann campaign is losing their job over this? Or is it an intentionally nutty “any press is good press” move? Chris Holmes: It reminds…
Chris Holmes
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In light of the recent tragedy in Norway, Chris Holmes wonders what responsibility, if any, Christians bear for Anders Breivik’s crimes.
Dw. Dunphy
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Thoughts On A Hostage Crisis: Think a US default won’t affect you directly and immediately? Think again.
Ann Logue
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It’s really hard to say what’s right and wrong when raising kids. There is so much that’s weird and random about life that setting rules and passing judgment is pointless;…
Jeff Johnson
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Disgruntled by the recent FBI crackdown of online poker, Jeff Johnson brings us Six Myths About Online Poker.
Dw. Dunphy
8 Min Read
Popdose takes a fictitious look into the heart of adult peer pressure, consumerism run amok, and poop jokes.
Jon Cummings
2 Min Read
Wednesday’s anti-democratic (and anti-Democratic) shenanigans in Wisconsin were just part of a GOP effort to destroy the Democrats’ power base nationwide. Can they succeed? Jon Cummings says, definitely maybe.
Dw. Dunphy
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In spite of what the financial pundits say, Popdose’s Dw. Dunphy says double-dip recession is not only possible, but inevitable.
Robert Cass
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Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark doesn’t officially open until March 15, but it’s already been slammed with some of the worst reviews in Broadway history. Luckily, Robert Cass is here to provide director Julie Taymor and her collaborators with a list of suggestions for a creative overhaul.
Jon Cummings
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Conservatives now claim the Constitution as their own — yet couldn’t bring themselves to read it in its entirety on the House floor. Jon Cummings examines the flaws of Tea Party-brand strict constructionism.
Jeff Johnson
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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.
Robin Monica Alexander
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Still unsure whether kids are born gay? Robin Monica Alexander spotlights a new blog whose emphatic and adorable response is yes.
Robert Cass
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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.
Jon Cummings
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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.
Robert Cass
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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.
Jon Cummings
6 Min Read
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 is it their corporate sponsors?
Dw. Dunphy
7 Min Read
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…
Jon Cummings
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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.
Dw. Dunphy
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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…
Jeff Giles
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Statistics chosen at random from the latest Harper’s Index, with corresponding mp3s. Date that the Tea Party Bookshop in Salem, Oregon, changed its name to Tigress Books: 8/24/10 Nils Lofgren…
Dw. Dunphy
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Dear readers, I’ve never consciously steered you wrong before and I don’t intend to start now, so we’ll make the declaration right up front that I am being compensated for…