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‘Things will be great when you’re Down-ton’

If I’m diligent and steadfast in my work today, I will reward myself with a guilt-free hour of public television this evening.

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I said, ‘Hey, what is going on?’

I may never fully recover from the psychic trauma visited on me by the insufferably zany be-dreadlocked band 4-Non-Blondes and their all-too-memorable charting single “What’s Up?”

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The unbearable lateness of being

Remember when “multi-tasking” actually meant something? Me neither.

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Crime Time

Ours is a culture whose preoccupation with criminality and justice has come to be, in clinical terms, fetishistic.

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Operation Black Hole

Sure, relaxing and spending quality time with my family and friends on Thanksgiving was pretty good.

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Schooled

Even though I was only 9 years old in 1986, I have been trying to ameliorate, forget or otherwise recover from one error in judgment that has dogged my every step for the past 25

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The hits just keep on coming

I was always a little dubious about the tooth fairy. It just seemed so implausible.

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Trouble believing in anything? Join the club

People are expected to believe in things.

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Face to Face

It was hard for me to leave you, but I needed to find myself again.

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The games people play

As I’ve stated before, my modest annual allotment of sports enthusiasm is given over entirely and without hesitation to University of Louisville Men’s Cardinal Basketball, for who