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The Catchiest Post You’ll Ever Read

by Katy McCaffrey November 29, 2012

Very often, around mealtimes, or clothes-picking times, or any culling from a large group to a small group of something-times, I will have to ask my daughter over and over again what she wants.  “Do you want meatballs?  Carrots? Udon Noodles?  Quail? Hello?  Can you hear me?”  Eventually she’ll remember a person is talking to […]

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Small Pox

by Daedalus Howell November 21, 2012

What we talk about when we talk about Thanksgiving Recently, I wrote a piece on the so-called “turducken,” the culinary abomination that shares its theme music with the Frankenstein movies, and received the following note from my pal Geoffrey Cain, who opined: “If you are going to write about the turducken, you should remember to […]

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Tea Party

by Harvey Asher, Ph.D. November 19, 2012

FRESH FROM HIS WINNING PREDICTION IN THIS YEAR’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, HARVEY ASHER ANALYZES THE FUTURE OF THE TEA PARTY. History suggests that the changing of the guard—Democrat to Republican and vice versa—takes place roughly in ten-to-twelve year cycles. A tally of the years the Republicans and Democrats have held the presidency over roughly the last […]

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In Contempt of: A misanthropic column that celebrates all the things I can’t stand!!

by Mike Anthrope November 15, 2012

I can’t stand Hacky Sack. Of all the sports and games of leisure ever devised, Hacky Sack is the most lame. I suppose “twirl the stick with two other sticks and pretend to be a Renaissance Faire jester,” and “balance yourself on a board over a rolling log” (presumably as a nod to lumberjack competitions) […]

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