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Erick Erickson Gifts for Father’s Day

by Katy McCaffrey June 12, 2013

Well, Father’s Day is right around the corner and since so many of you thanked me for my help when it came to Mother’s Day gift giving, I’m back with my helpful tips for finding that perfect something for Dad. Since I’m not dad though, this list was a little harder for me to write […]

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In the Grand Scheme of Things

by Daedalus Howell June 3, 2013

Your gadgets are going to kill you. Not today but someday soon and we’ll have only ourselves to blame. Because we gave them the Internet. There has been much chatter about the “Internet of Things,” I thought I should read up on it, at least before their uprising so that I can at least have […]

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Bass Fishing in America: The Search for Meaning in a Beer Bottle

by Daedalus Howell May 28, 2013

As an armchair Jungian, one of my factory-default-settings is a heightened sensitivity to synchronicity – the perception that separate phenomena may share some shared significance but without “any discernible causal connection.” Think of it as pattern-recognition-plus or being bisociatively-curious. Connecting the dots in this manner might be an earmark of  genius or paranoia, depending which side […]

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Dirty Depp

by Mary Kay Holmes May 13, 2013

Women love filthy men. Covered in dirt and sweat, climbing out of the mines, and with that sexy look in their eyes they walk toward you and kiss you like they need to quench their thirst with your embrace–smelling of pine needles and the salt of the earth, he picks you up and carries you […]

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Terrible Mother’s Day Gifts

by Katy McCaffrey May 12, 2013

With the world’s most important day almost upon us, I would like to take this time to help out any last minute shoppers.  My email box has been stuffed to the e-rim with offers and suggestions from helpful merchants assuring that their product is exactly what mom wants.  But take it from me, please, most […]

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Let’s Go on a See Cruise, Shall We?

by Lenny Schmidt May 7, 2013

I’ve been working as a comedian on cruise ships for about three years now.  There are negatives of course, no texting on board, crappy TV, small cabin, stuck on a ship for a long period of time, but very few jobs offer free food, accommodations, and cheap drinks. Oh, and I get to spend most […]

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I Love a Man in Uniform

by Mary Kay Holmes May 1, 2013

I have a thing for superheroes. Not comic books or illustrations or that dude in the Spiderman outfit outside Trader Joe’s advertising the sushi joint next door. I’m talking about buff, macho actors in skin tight unitards with broad shoulders and fiberglass molded six packs saving the day. If there’s a montage of a dude […]

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I Wrote the Plays of William Shakespeare

by Daedalus Howell April 22, 2013

April 23 marks both the birth and death day of The Bard. No one has enjoyed as much literary fame in the English language as William Shakespeare, despite being alive for a mere 52 years (and dead for nearly 400). For that matter, no author has also endured so much scrutiny as to the authorship […]

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Baseball, Baseball, Baseball!

by Dan O'Day McClellan April 15, 2013

The film 42 took top honors at the box office this weekend and rightfully so. We also celebrate Jackie Robinson day, as Dan O’Day McClellan shares his love of baseball. TS My favorite season of the year is back — baseball season. Flowers are blooming, the weather is getting warmer and baseball, sweet baseball is […]

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When is Tax Day? Pour a Pint of Death & Taxes and I’ll Tell Ya

by Daedalus Howell April 14, 2013

Unless you’re living in a rural cabin and writing screeds against the Techno-Beast, you’re probably aware that Monday, April 15, is Tax Day. Opinions on this annual day of (account) reckoning have always been mixed. Some see it as a federal shakedown, others see it as a patriotic duty. I see it as a shoebox […]

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What is Carob, an Easter Fool’s Day joke?

by Daedalus Howell March 30, 2013

Every now and again, a pair of dates collide on the calendar that, juxtaposed, naturally create the conditions of chaos and comedy. Such a time will occur this Easter Sunday, March 31, which happens to immediately precede Monday, April 1, better known as April Fool’s Day. I cannot help but think there’s some opportunity lurking […]

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Reflections on Black History Month

by Harvey Asher, Ph.D. March 26, 2013

In a February syndicated column, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cynthia Tucker called for an end to Black History Month. Separating black history from America history, she said, minimizes “the myriad ways in which black Americans’ accomplishments are part of the national mosaic [by making] the contributions of a few well-known black men and women seem like […]

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Gutsy the Lizard

by Dan O'Day McClellan March 15, 2013

This past weekend, as I was walking to the store to buy some wine for dinner, I came across a very long lizard lying in the middle of the parking lot of the store. Though you wouldn’t necessarily think so, Los Angeles is filled with animal life: coyotes, the occasional mountain lion, and loads of these […]

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