Cultural Criticism

The McLaughlin Group (with Monica?)

Please come back, Tony!!!

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Amiss America

…her boobs were too big. I’m assuming they meant distracting. Apparently that’s why the church choir wears robes.

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Sufferin’ Succotash

To be fair, those in Leigh Anne’s communal circle are not unfamiliar with stressful situations. After attending college on cheerleading and beauty pageant scholarships and marrying into families of Southern wealth and imperialistic opinions, these women deliberated over whether to co-mingle the inheritance of daddy’s fortunes with that of their husbands.

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The Sky Is Falling, and I Have the Numbers to Prove It

Another truism—that with true compromise, no one is happy—exposes the bitter reality that it is difficult for people with different points of view to happily co-exist. It’s a basic instinct that motivates most of us: we defend our land, our stuff, our ideas, and our ideals. It’s an “I versus You” world. Nevertheless, in this country, we have constantly strived to co-exist even in the face of history…even in light of the fact that humans have always operated by another truism that “might makes right.”

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Walt Whitman and the “Mad Men”

Poetry’s Soul Sold for Jeans



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We Interrupt This Column: RIP

Working class Americans are not “dumb” but simply “dumbed down” by all the propaganda aimed at keeping most of us from the truth.

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The Beeper Cacophony

“So, what’s your sign?” a striking brunette asked me, only to excuse herself when one of her cell phones chimed some hip-hop music. Apparently her sign was Ice-T, with AT&T rising.



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The $6 Million Social Worker

But, it’s the average worker who is the one who actually produces America’s goods, who actually helps other Americans. If life was fair and people were paid what they were worth, there would be only a very small pay gap between bosses and workers. Here’s some news I think should be published in the new year-but probably won’t be.



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The Noble Nobel

In which the author does a double-take.

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How To Win an Election

A high school election reflects the trivial preoccupations of the big one.

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