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58Human Target Hits the Mark, but They Keep Moving the Bullseye
Getting a bead on the new FOX series Human Target has not been easy, especially since it’s only aired once in its advertised scheduled slot (Wednesdays, 8P EST.) The first episode was a teaser airing before the 24 premiere, and the second was...
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58NCIS: Los Angeles looks too familiar
We humans are a restless lot. At least, we like to think we are. We’ll move from one continent to another in search of a different life, only to make our new neighborhood look like the one we left...
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68Downsizing the American Dream
America is a country built more on myth than mythology. The only mythologies America can call their own are the legends of Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed. The giant lumberjack carved up large pieces of the...
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64Rethinking the Ride
If nothing else, the Gulf oil disaster should wake us up to one inescapable conclusion: we have spent the last century worshiping at the altar of dead dinosaurs. It’s not the fault of the...
0 comments60The Joker Is Not a Socialist-- And Neither is Obama
Don’t get me wrong—I love a good joke as much as the next guy. Using incongruity to skewer the absurdities of life not only makes us laugh—it keeps us sane. But a joke has to make sense within its own...
10 comments58The Forgotten Generation
Those of us born in the United States in the 1950’s, particularly those of us born in the early to mid-fifties, have always found ourselves in a peculiar place in the demographic map. We were born too late...
1 comment60Rock and Roll and the Hired Guns
Rock music hasn’t been a part of my life. From earliest memory, it’s been the signature of every defining moment in my life. When I was a toddler, my aunts would swing me to the beats of Elvis, Little...
1 comment66Make Room for Daddy Dexter
Very few things are more life-altering than the arrival of a new baby in the family. It’s not that they mean to, but newborns change every aspect of their parents’ lives—they disrupt daily routines,...
0 comments73The Solution to the Obesity Epidemic
America is in the throes of an insidious epidemic that threatens our very way of life. At least, that’s what we’d like to believe. Truth is, the “obesity epidemic” is more a matter of our preoccupation with mindless snacking than...
1 comment63White Collar: Nicely Tailored, No Starch
Want to know why it seems there’s nothing to watch on TV these days? Glad you asked. The Big Four (CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX) have come to realize that the average American will willingly watch anything, so long as it’s packaged as something...
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