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Ann Logue
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Tired of hearing about health care? Tough luck, bitches! Ann Logue is all about the Medicare in this week’s Numberscruncher.
Ann Logue
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Who the hell is this four-eyed coot, and why is he sitting in the Popdose spotlight? Read Ann Logue’s latest column to find out.
Jon Cummings
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Jon Cummings thought the right wing would smooth down its fringe feathers after the ’08 election. Snake eyes on that roll, Jon!
Ann Logue
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/683YnDGSqoY” width=”600″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] Usually, tales of Greek houses gone bad fall into two categories: drugs and alcohol, or hazing. The undergraduate members screw up; the old…
Jon Cummings
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Did Michael Jackson break the music industry? Jon Cummings examines the damage in this week’s Jesus of Cool.
Ann Logue
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/d6vjrzUplWU” width=”600″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] The health-care crisis and the financial crisis have a problem in common, which is how the government can regulate those markets to make…
Ann Logue
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Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on the exaggerations and assumptions required to make the claim that Michael Jackson sold 750 million albums. He sold a lot of albums,…
Ann Logue
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Alsip isnÁ¢€â„¢t the leafy, angsty Chicago suburb of a John Hughes movie. If people know about it, itÁ¢€â„¢s probably because they have been to a wedding at the Chateau Bu-ScheÁ¢€â„¢.Á‚ Á‚ …
Jon Cummings
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One of them reached the grandest stage in her profession by virtue of her charm and very-good looks, only to be judged harshly upon that stage for her ignorance and…
Ann Logue
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/92wr1UfMN_w” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] ItÁ¢€â„¢s been a bad time for NFL quarterbacks. Bernie Kosar, who played for the Browns, Cowboys, and Dolphins, filed for bankruptcy.Á‚ Ryan Leaf,…
Ann Logue
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John Adams started it. In addition to cowriting the Declaration of Independence and his role in the American Revolutionary War, Adams wanted American independence to be celebrated in a big…
Ann Logue
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DonÁ¢€â„¢t think Michael JacksonÁ¢€â„¢s death was a tragedy. He was 50, old enough to have outlived many of my friends and relatives. His best work was in the 1980s, so…
Mike Heyliger
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Dave Steed
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Rob Smith
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Jack Feerick
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The point of a column like this is not to be a consumer guide, or to give “thumbs up”/”thumbs down” to the latest media product (which is just as well…
Mojo Flucke
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Matthew Bolin
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Will Harris
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Michael Fortes
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Ken Shane
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Dw. Dunphy
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Dw. Dunphy bids farewell to two pop-culture icons.
Ann Logue
1 Min Read
In her latest Numberscruncher column, Ann Logue looks at the dark spot where church misconduct and economics intersect.
Jon Cummings
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(EditorÁ¢€â„¢s note: The author promises there will be no further Sound of Music references in this column.) President ObamaÁ¢€â„¢s been taking it on the chin a lot lately, from both…
Ann Logue
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Eugene Fama is the Susan Lucci of the Nobel Prize world. He not only developed the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, which sits beneath almost every theory in finance, but he also…
Ann Logue
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Smddcs5n0H0″ width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] For the month of May, the unemployment rate clocked in at 9.4%, the highest level since the early 1980s. It felt like old…
Jon Cummings
2 Min Read
I must admit, I had thought the days were over when Republicans could scare the bejeezus out of the citizenry (and force acquiescence from lily-livered Democrats) with bullshit tricks like…