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The Price Of Right

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

I’ll tell you a secret.  One of my guilty pleasures is watching MTV’s “My Super Sweet Sixteen.”
If you have never watched the program, it’s a formula “reality show” where bratty rich girls (and occasionally a boy) are indulged by their weary parents with a sweet sixteen party of their dreams.  Part of the formula is [...]

Fer or Agin

Friday, March 7th, 2008

The first presidential election where I was eligible to vote was in 1996. Clinton vs. Dole.
I remember going into the school and being a little surprised at how it felt a little trailer park to be drawing the two-dollar shower curtain to cast my vote. I mean, I was there to vote for [...]

He Died With His Boots On

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

By the time you read this, the blogs throughout blogosphere will be as inflamed with the news of Heath Ledger’s death as a hooker’s snooch is with the clap. Particularly blogs by gay men and fourteen year old girls (and others who are fans of Brokeback Mountain or A Knight’s Tale).
I, myself, never payed [...]