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Next time you drive by Janovic Plaza…
It's watered down, but the music is good, too. Thanks, Doc Searls!
Civil rights group files suit against TBS network to stop showing A Christmas Story
Controversial civil rights group ISEF yesterday filed suit in federal court against Turner Broadcasting and its cable affiliate TBS to cease airing the movie A Christmas Story. For several years,…
Merry Federally Recognized Holiday of December 25th That Shall Remain Nameless!
I remember when I was a kid living on the outskirts of Detroit, in Taylor in the early 1970s, in early December, aching for snow so badly that it hurt.…
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Almost Top 10 Christmas Songs: guest column
Everybody will recognize long-time contributer Mike D. of the Western Institute for Study of the Environment (a great site people should browse over to). He generously contributed the following list…
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“I was all, like—awugh.”
I heard that conversation yesterday at a restaurant where I was having lunch. Two women sat together at a table talking on their cell phones. Presumably, they were talking not…
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Set up your recorders: tomorrow’s the day!
For those readers in the States and Canada (and elsewhere?) who get the History channel, tomorrow, Tuesday 23 December, is The Big Day. I'll be on the show Weird US…
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Wrestlers sponsor “earth hour”
I got an email---a press release---from a guy named Dan Forman from the WWF asking me to get the word out about "earth hour." Up till now, I had no…
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Unnecessary hypervigilance in parks: no unaccompanied adults!
I think that sign came from England. Here in the States, we have the similar sign but in picture form---a lone adult with a circle around him and a slash…