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Compare and Contrast

This crocheted toy: With my proper Play-Doh rendition from January 2011: One is a little more optimistic than the other, don’t you think? (Dune amigurumi, Mr. Neat-o.)

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Free Republican Voters

You know what would make a couple Republican voters or at least discouraged Democrat voters? Subjecting urban homesteads, especially those with chickens, to USDA inspection. Here me out, I have a...

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I Wonder If He’s Been To Africa Lately

An article in American Profile claims that a man has been to every nation on Earth: The ink stamps in John Rheinberger’s passports read like the register of an experienced—and dedicated—world traveler:...

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Buffalo Schools Learn the Lesson from Republic Schools’ Example

Back in 2011, the Republic School District (the school district in which I live) removed some books from its library and triggered a national media firestorm that eventually led to the school district...

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An Unspoken Suspicion

At the Telegraph, Celia Walden skates around the issue Hollywood has kissed goodbye to the steamy sex scene: According to Vincent Bruzzese of Ipsos, a market research company, sex has been all but...

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The Unsophisticated Past

City Journal has a long (well, it is City Journal) piece comparing women’s magazines of 1963 to those of today, and finds the material different: Flip through the weighty 50-year-old issues, and you’ll...

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The Wheels Within Wheels Come Off

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has ties to an organization to defend Republican Paul Ryan: The arm of the Mark Zuckerberg-backed immigration reform group that focuses on conservatives is going on air...

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In Comic Book News….

I understand Archie is going to be replaced with a female Archie. Or something. This is news for adults?

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Authentic Proof of Brian J.’s Coolness

On Cracked.com, a list entitled 6 Awesome Things I’m Not Cool Enough To Own. Let’s compare the listing to my personal inventory: Fedora: Come on, you know me. I’ve worn a fedora, yea, verily, stood out...

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Fall Festival Season Means Raffle Season

And by “raffle,” I mean gun raffle: Somebodies will gasp when they discover that one of the raffles is the local EMTs that are raffling off a gun. Guns are dangerous! And they’re EMTs! Down here in...

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Comic Book Subversion Circa 1990

Inside the front cover of Forgotten Realms #18 from 1990: An ad telling kids about the Constitution. A government-funded ad about the Constitution. 21st century kids ain’t got time for that. 21st...

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