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Why Should Rush Apologize?
(REUTERS/Micah Walter) This may be an unpopular point of view, but why exactly was everyone clamoring for Rush Limbaugh to apologize? I don’t understand. When he called Sandra Fluke, advocate of...
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There Will Be No ‘White Knight’ for the Republican Field
(Josh Sullivan, Getty photo / February 29, 2012) With Super Tuesday a kind of Romney-leaning wash, it appears as if the Republican field will march forward on their snipe hunt. Even though I still...
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Tornado Outbreaks Will Only Get Worse
NOAA/NWS This weekend saw the largest tornado outbreak for the month of March on record with 279 tornado warnings issued and at least 38 people killed. Entire towns were ripped out of the ground across...
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So We’re Still Doing the Whole ‘Obama, the Radical’ Thing?
Dear American Right-Wing, I’m confused. Let me just check and make sure I have this correct: we’re still doing the whole, Obama, the Radical Afro-centric Leftist thing? Like, you, Right Wing, you’re...
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‘Game Change’ a Telling Political Guilty Pleasure
(HBO) I have a new favorite sexytime thought, which is Julianne Moore playing Sarah Palin. Let me just dwell on this for a second before launching into my thoughts on the HBO docudrama “Game Change”...
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You (Still) Can’t Say That on TV?
It should come as no surprise that as a happy proponent of vulgarity, I don’t think there’s much point in TV, radio, newspapers and other media censoring language. Let’s focus on a specific case: the...
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Bieber Is Not a Reading Level
As the “Hunger Games” film hits theaters this week, I have to vent for a second. Once—just once!—I would love it if someone would recommend a book to me that was not originally intended for a...
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I Love Staying With My Adult Friends
I’m down in beautiful, underrated Cincinnati this week while I muse about how best to hitchhike a ride back to Chicago, staying with my wonderful friends Justin and Loren (“Publish This Book” fans...
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Sifting Through the Response to ‘Bieber Is Not a Reading Level’
Among some very predictable messages and e-mails I got in response to Monday’s RedEye column, “Bieber is not a reading level,” I did get one e-mail with which I totally agree. A fellow RedEye reporter...
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Trayvon Martin, Fox and the History of White Resentment
It’s unsettling when the particulars of violent incident fit so perfectly with the larger societal forces behind them. Such is the case with Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old kid walking home from a...
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