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Being a person who believes in both personal responsibility and freedom of choice, I was taken aback when I recently dared to post a diary on one of the world’s most visited progressive political blog sites about how one, perhaps, should not go rushing off to get vaccinated for H1N1. The main gist of my [...]

There’s no other band like Electric Six. Who else could sing about household cleaning products and make it sound so badass? Plus, Dick Valentine can reduce the host of Fox’ “it’s-irreverent-’cause-we-say-so” show Red Eye to a puddle of bootlickery, and thereby free us all from being judged by the company we keep. Seven years in [...]

From suburban Kansas City, the crucible that done fired me, comes a story about a different kind of firing. Eighth-grade science teacher Ryan Haraughty was cut loose this week when a parent caught wind of an off-the-cuff joke he made at the expense of his own poor drawing skills. The situation turned surreal pretty quickly: [...]

It’s a big relief to me knowing I’m not supposed to take seriously all the crowing about a Republican comeback as a result of this month’s elections. Beating a stumblebum like Deeds looked like fish in a barrel from here. But for the life of me, I can’t grok what happened in Maine, or, conversely, [...]