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You could say that our pain was Paramount Pictures’ gain this weekend. Paramount’s kinda-sorta truthy dark comedy Pain & Gain, starring Mark Wahlberg, muscled its

The list of celebrities known for their boorish, selfish, obnoxious behavior is notoriously long. I’m not going to name names, here, but you know who

There was a time when parents waited eagerly to hear what their baby’s first word might be. Was that an oddly muffled belch, or did

I remember well the old saw, “Don’t smoke, drink or chew, or go with girls who do.” It was burned into my brain as a

Ah, commercials. They’re interesting things, aren’t they? In this media-saturated world, ads are a constant part of our lives. We see them glowing prettily at

Some would say that banking on a superstar is risky business in these CGI-laden days: Big names aren’t as bankable at the box office as

There’s nothing good about a national tragedy—other than the good that we see in the midst of one. When two shrapnel-laden bombs went off near

I saw a fantastic post on Focus on the Family’s Dad Matters blog that I want to share with you. It deals with an inspiring

For Seattle rapper Ben Haggerty—better known by his stage name, Macklemore—2013 has been a breakthrough year. His infectiously silly (but unfortunately profanity-laced) ode to the

“I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV.” Or maybe it should be, “I’m not a writer, but I post on Plugged In’s