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I read a funny story recently about an old farmer who, while visiting the local feed store, overheard one gentleman telling another that he’d discovered

I’ve been re-reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the last few nights, prepping for the release of the film version starring Leonardo DiCaprio (coming

Last week one of our Culture Clips blasted Barbie for her not-so-natural shape and the way that shape might influence young girls’ perception of their

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