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Washington DC’s NFL football team changes its name today

April 1, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Humor Leave a comment

The NFL’s Washington, DC. team has announced that it is officially changing its name to something more politically correct and less racially insensitive. Native

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Two ways to regulate guns

March 19, 2014 Joanna Sandsmark Guns, Humor, Widgets: Guns 2 comments

There are two ways to solve the gun crisis in America that have yet to be discussed. First, there is one group above all

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Blueprint for an “outrage meter”

January 31, 2014 Renee Shur Humor, Ideas, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m drawing up plans to construct an outrage meter.  Granted, I’ve never seen one nor even heard of one before, but why should that

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Socio-political messages from an unlikely place: “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”

January 7, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Business, Humor, Literature/Arts/Film, Politics, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’ve just spent two hours I’ll never get back watching “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.” We had intended to go to a showing of

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Satire: Finding truth in a land of lies

November 22, 2013 Renee Shur ACA/Obamacare, Humor, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Would you like to visit a far away place called the Land of Truth? If the answer is yes, you may discover it’s not

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From Kennedy to Obama – what might have been

November 22, 2013 Arthur Lieber Campaigns, Democrats, Good government, Humor, Obama, Politics, Voting/Elections 4 comments

I was in eleventh grade when the shots were fired, the announcement was made, and the LBJ years began. Up until JFK, my father

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On my mother’s 100th birthday: The story continues

November 13, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Health, Humor, Ideas, Uncategorized, Women Leave a comment

  This is not a political post. Today’s the day that I stop thinking politically for just a little while and think historically and

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Rand Paul’s plagiarism predicament: Cartoonists and satirists add their own footnotes

November 11, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Humor, People, Politics, Republicans Leave a comment

To quote Rand Paul [see how easy it is to include attribution in your writings?], ” It’s a little hard to footnote things accurately.” Actually,

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Accidentally kosher

November 11, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Consumer issues, Food, Humor One comment

Although the worship [what does that mean, anyway?] service was long, the bar mitzvah boy did himself proud, and this here atheist survived another

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Politics and pumpkins

October 31, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Humor, Politics, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Everything is political. Even, it seems, Halloween. Just for evil grins and giggles, here’s a gallery of jack o’ lanterns from this year and previous

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