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All articles published on December 3, 2005
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Culture
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Is America Becoming Homogenized?
The South was distinct until the recent past. Before that it was a rebellious and enslaving. What now?
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It’s Time For Government To Give The Artistic World Its Due
A nation’s creative community is a reflection of its collective consciousness. It is about time that it got some official support.
- Stubborn Libra Lover: Astrology-based Advice
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Sensitivity Issues
I can get in touch with my feelings, understand my anger, and crack them over the head with my cane. Remember, I'm sensitive about things like that.
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Day By Day for December 03, 2005
Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for December 03, 2005
Sports
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NFL Picks of a Thoughtful Fool, Week 13
Wherein Charlie Hustle saves the day.
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English Premiership Football Preview, Week 15
The football is hot this English wintertime weekend. Star games include Liverpool-Wigan, Bolton-Arsenal, and a grieving Manchester United versus Portsmouth.
Sci/Tech
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The High Stakes of Driving High
When did marijuana become the new alcohol?
Books
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Book Review: Expelled From Eden - A William T. Vollman Reader
A treasure-trove of curios spotlighting the 2005 National Book Award winner, speaking volumes about the voluminous Vollman oeuvre.
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Book Review: Yellow Dog by Martin Amis
A tale of misery and imagination from a post-modern curmudgeon. Get warm and fuzzy somewhere else.
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Book Review: America's Right Turn by Richard A. Viguerie & David Franke
How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power
Video
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DVD Review: Broken Flowers
The ending of this movie has been subject to much discussion...it encourages the viewer to explore different scenarios.
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DVD Review: Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda
Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda boasts a split personality and has some interesting storytelling technique.
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Movie Review: Walk the Line
Passionate performances from Phoenix, Witherspoon light up the screen in Johnny Cash biopic.
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Movie Review: Aeon Flux
I must be going through sterile, ultra-violent, post-apocalyptic sci-fi film fatigue. Serenity is more enjoyable.
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Movie Review: Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
I think that following up on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was a bigger task than anticipated.
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Movie Review: C.R.A.Z.Y.
These are crazy characters we want to spend time with, and the emotional journey of father and son is a trip worth taking.
Gaming
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PS2 Review: Ratchet - Deadlocked
This game wasn't what I expected.
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Nintendo DS Review: Zoo Tycoon
This was fun on the PC. What happened to this port? We'll never know.
Politics
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Positive Economic News
Let's all face reality, and admit that the economy is booming...
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Paying For a Free Press
Ork is the only place where the president has 80% approval, there and among voters in a persistently vegetative state.
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Boston Mayor Thomas Menino Bans "Stop Snitchin" Shirts
Yet if you burned a copy of the First Amendment onto a 2x4 and then smacked Mayor Dumbass in the head with it, YOU would be considered the bad guy.
Music
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CD Review: This Christmas Morning - Leslie Ritter and Scott Petito
Acoustic folk for Christmas. A pleasant change of pace.
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DVD Review: The Dick Cavett Show - Rock Icons
Fumo Verde tunes in and turns on this collection of '60s Rock Icons from The Dick Cavett Show
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Single Review: Belinda Carlisle "I Feel The Magic"
Belinda Carlisle is in love with an angel in the nostalgic "I Feel The Magic."
- CD Review: Susumu Yokota & Rothko - Distant Sounds of Summer
- CD/DVD Review: Orange Sky - Upstairs
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The Billy Joel Problem
"It might just be a lunatic you're looking for" is a decent line of song, but that arrangement and performance is the wussiest attempt at rock and roll lunacy in recorded history.
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Single Review: Thompson Twins "Lies"
Tom Bailey distrusts his girlfriend in the imaginative "Lies."
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Music Is Profound- Whatever That Means
Then again, the Flaming Lips singing about Sponge Bob strikes me as really deep.
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