A look back at the central role Mountain Dew has played in my life as I reluctantly forsake it for the much healthier, if markedly less fun Perrier.
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Conservatives coined the phrase “Trump Derangement Syndrome” to malign Liberals driven to madness by their hatred or Trump but it’s better used describing the way Trump has conditioned followers into blindly following him and buying into his paranoid, self-aggrandizing worldview.
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When it comes to deifying Donald Trump as a golden God, no one can compete with “rogue” political cartoonist Ben Garrison. Except maybe for painter Jon McNoughton.
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Some melancholy thoughts on Motherless Day.
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I’m not sure I’m even qualified to write a Facebook post about my mother’s death, as I wasn’t anybody important to her, really. I was just her son.
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My real-estate agent, like my literary agent, is candid and blunt almost to a fault. So I can’t say I was surprised by the terseness of his reply when I texted him, “So, just to be clear, after all of the closing fees and expenses, at the end of all that, I will walk away from selling my condo with nothing. Is that right?”
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Ju-Live kicks off with an exploration of the Cronenergian horrors of Paw Patrol Live
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The raging controversy surrounding a sad little boy's viral plea for an end to bullying says a lot about how the internet's mob mentality brings out the worst in us, as well as the best.
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In which your depressive blogger once again gets his failure and desperation juice all over this otherwise lovely website.
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Revisiting a comic strip that taught me, as a child, about what an inexorable horror show adult life really is.
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