Chris Holmes
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Shhh! It's a gallery of World War II posters emphasizing the importance of silence for
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You know that presidential campaigns bring out the worst in people, and this was true in 1944. Witness the pro-FDR film "Hell-Bent for
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So Osama bin Laden is dead at last. Maybe. Probably. It's been fewer than 12 hours since I saw the news, but here are my thoughts and impressions so
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We present the latest in a seemingly endless series of excellent internet links that you must see. It is a moral
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It’s hard to imagine, especially for those of my generation or younger, but broadcast news was not always a wasteland of vacuous celebrity gossip, shallow political “analysis”, or
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So hey, I’m a little late on this review. I know that seems inexcusable since it is the season premiere, but my damn DVR didn’t record this when it was supposed to. And if it’s
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As with the first two entries, the premise of this is simple. I just used the Random Article link on Wikipedia and saw if anything good came up. (a lot of it is quite useless) The town of
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One of the trippiest vintage commercials you'll ever see was this late 1950s entry from Skippy Peanut