Thanksgiving, the Incredible Shrinking Holiday
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Something sinister is killing Thanksgiving, one year at a time. It’s called Christmas Creep.…
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Is There a Proper Way to Appreciate Nostalgia?
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Is there a “right” way to do nostalgia on the internet? To listen to some people there is, but it’s simply not true.…
I come not to bury jazz, but to praise it
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I might as well offer my two cents on Terry Teachout’s recent editorial for the Wall Street Journal, “Can Jazz Be Saved?”, since so many others already have. In it, Teachout beats the same funeral…
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Sharon Stone: Idiot of the week
I know it’s only Thursday, but I feel pretty confident about this selection. You see, it seems Ms. Stone caused a bit of a brouhaha with her comments about the recent earthquake in China. She…
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Mixed (message) martial arts
CBS recently announced that they will begin airing cage fighting (aka mixed martial arts or MMA) this spring. In reading the article, I was reminded of something I see quite often whenever advocates of the…
Sweaty feet = profits
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Just when I thought I had seen all the ways unscrupulous advertisers could come up with to separate idiots from their money, along come detoxifying foot pads. If you haven’t yet seen any of the…
Golf and race
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To absolutely no one’s surprise, Dave Seanor (the editor of Golfweek magazine who approved a recent cover featuring a noose) was canned. The firing made sense for a very basic reason that had nothing to…