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Angelina Jolie Undergoes Double Mastectomy

admin May 14, 2013

When did you stop believing in God? Was it when a loved one died? In the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting? Maybe after a complex bout of soul searching when you comprehended just how many calories are in cheesecake? I’ll tell you when I lost the faith: When I […]

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Active NBA Player Jason Collins Comes Out as Gay

admin April 30, 2013

When I heard that an NBA player had come out yesterday, two thoughts immediate filled my mind: 1. Please let it be Rudy Gay, because that would be hilarious. 2. I hope he plays the little-known position of “bottom forward”. When I learned it was journeyman center Jason Collins of […]

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Sports Media Milks the Boston Marathon Bombing

admin April 17, 2013

I typically don’t write about a topic two days in a row because I have the attention span of a gnat and the same computer I type these articles on has my porn, so you do the math. But the way ESPN and Sports Illustrated have glommed on to the […]

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Terror and Twitter

admin April 16, 2013

I suppose it’s a commentary on our times that I know by now how Twitter–without fail–reacts in the face of carnage-filled tragedy. The responses in the wake of the horrific events that took place at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday showed once again that the tweeters, […]

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Gay Marriage

admin March 26, 2013

The Supreme Court is hearing two cases this week that deal with the legality of same-sex marriage in the United States (an appeal of California’s Proposition 8 on Tuesday and arguments over the Defense of Marriage act Wednesday). I was alerted to this fact by half of my friends changing […]

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Oscar Pistorius and the Murderous Lesser Than

admin February 19, 2013

We all know there’s a hierarchy when it comes to the media importance of a dead stranger. It goes: ugly man < ugly woman < attractive man < attractive woman < beautiful woman < beautiful white woman < beautiful blonde white woman. So Reeva Steenkamp's murder is the JFK assassination [...]

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Why I Still Make Ray Lewis Stabbing Jokes

admin February 5, 2013

Ray Lewis has done it. After declaring that the 2012 season would be his “last ride” in January, the Ravens have won the Super Bowl, and he has ended his career with a second ring to bookend the first. Widely hailed as one of the greatest defensive players of all […]