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Really? This Is Awesome?

I first heard about AwesomenessReminders.com about a month ago and assumed it would garner 10 followers. Then it would land on obscure marketing websites, listed

Underground Entertainment

For nearly two months now, 33 Chilean miners have been living a half-mile underground, waiting for rescue. Experts say these miners will see the sun

Movie Monday: Money Never Sleeps

Money really doesn’t sleep. Sometimes at 2 a.m., I think I hear the sound of laughter and music from my billfold, as my tiny collection

There’s a Worm in my Tweet!

Twitter was infected this week by a virus that flooded user’s accounts with odd messages and prompted un-clicked pop-ups—some of which contained malicious code that

Circumstantial Evidence

I don’t think jury duty would’ve ever made my bucket list. But if it did, for some reason, I can cross it off now. I

Just Like Lindsay

On the way home from work last night, I found myself thinking about the latest self-inflicted travails of actress Lindsay Lohan. Now, even if you

Guilty Is Good?

The MTV Video Awards aired recently. I didn’t watch them, but author and youth culture expert Walt Mueller did, and in his summarizing thoughts on

Movie Monday: The Town and Easy A

After a couple of zombie-like weekends at the box office, a trio of new movies brought some life back to the cineplex. Ben Affleck’s crime

Making Tables

We can’t all be at our best all the time. I wish we could. But sometimes, we drag a little, let our focus sag a

KFC, We Hardly Know Ye

Who knew thoughts of fried chicken could actually make someone sad? But it did this week when I read a USA Today article that claimed

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