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Ken Shane
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Happy New Year! In 1967, Aretha Franklin released “A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like)” on Atlantic Records. The song was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, with…
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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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Ken Shane
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The legendary songwriters had a smash of their own in ’84
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Popdose Staff
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The drumbeat of war is tapping away again. How does the US stand to lose or gain from an act of aggression against Syria?
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Brian Boone
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As Americans we like our president to be some combination of likable and better than us. Our last two presidents got in this way, albeit in very different ways —…
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Dw. Dunphy
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I learnt t’is better to watch football, I did.
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Dw. Dunphy
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Rule Brittania! There’s only one man who could dis the Olympics Opening Ceremony.
Dw. Dunphy
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Thoughts On A Hostage Crisis: Think a US default won’t affect you directly and immediately? Think again.
Jeff Giles
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Statistics chosen at random from the latest Harper’s Index, with corresponding mp3s. Rank of “disappointed” among terms used by Americans in an October survey to describe their feelings about the…
Popdose Staff
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There are events, items and personalities that become so absorbed in the culture, it is hard to believe they weren’t always there. Let’s take a brief stroll down memory lane…
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.
Ted Asregadoo
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The election of Scott Brown to the United States Senate has been the sexy political story of the week, but it’s also a reminder to the Democratic party — and…
Jon Cummings
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Whether or not Democrats manage to salvage health care legislation, losing Ted Kennedy’s seat is just desserts for their substantive and strategic failures.
Ann Logue
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Last week, a conservative friend asked me how I liked living in Sweden under Comrade Obama. I sighed. Somehow or another, it has become accepted that Sweden is a frightening…
Lance Berry
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He’s tackled government ineptitude, gun control, and health care — and now, with his latest film, Michael Moore is back where he started: Attacking corporate greed.
Jon Cummings
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Glenn Beck scored another pelt for his demagoguery-fur coat this week, when Congress voted to cut all federal funding for the community-organizing group ACORN in the wake of those seedy…
Dw. Dunphy
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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…
Robert Cass
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Hey, y’all. Matthew McConaughey here, fillin’ in for Mr. Mayor of Bootleg City this week. Cassanova gave me a jingle-jangle the other day and said, “Matty Mac, do me a…
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!
Robert Cass
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Writer-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…
Robert Cass
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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,…
Peter Chakerian
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Your 21st Century Digital Boy has had quite a weekend: ham, potato salad, green bean casserole and plenty oÁ¢€â„¢ gleaning and gossip on the boobtube front. In lieu of a…
Rob Smith
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For someone who doesn’t know a lot about hip-hop (as we surmised from his memo to the late Tupac Shakur), Uncle Donnie does seem to be well acquainted with certain…
Jon Cummings
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ItÁ¢€™s been a giggle this week watching Democrats paint Rush Limbaugh as the Á¢€Å“bloated, drug-addledÁ¢€ head of the Republican Party, as Paul Begala put it the other day. ItÁ¢€™s been…
Robert Cass
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“A liar lies and a thief steals from you, but a hustler gives you something that you don’t mind parting with your money for. You’re entertained by the meal or…
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