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Bananas, Boobs and Blood

by Rachel Birdsell I just read in “So, Now You Know” that “a report introduced into the U.S. Senate states that a child will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000

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Cox's Mistruths "Misleading"

When I talked with Jerry Cox of the Family Council Action Committee (FCAC) for the medical marijuana story published on Aug. 23, I was shocked by his “misleading” statements.

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Walker, Texas Wanker

I’ve always suspected that Chuck Norris was a little too far right to be sane, but the video I just watched proves it.

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Clutter Assassin: Living with Less Stuff

By Amanda Bancroft ‘Tis the season of yard sales, and lately, I’ve been having urges to wipe out all clutter in our apartment. It’s almost like an itch I can’t

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Compassion’s Been Proven to Work — Literally

By Terrah Baker “It’s OK to let go of the hard-line. We can drop the tight-lipped approach, brush away the judgments, open the doors of the jail cells and just

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Expletive Not Deleted

By Rachel Birdsell “There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It’s dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.” — Mark Twain Prague High

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Not a Pot Zombie Yet

I’ve smoked pot. Just writing those words is so potentially dangerous in our society that I wasn’t sure I could go through with it when I sat down to write

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Rage Against the Mustaine

By Rachel Birdsell Remember when the Dixie Chicks’ lead singer, Natalie Maine, told a London audience, “We’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas”? Remember how Republicans

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Putting A Muzzle On "Fraccidents"

By Joyce Hale “Nondisclosure agreements and exclusivity agreements. Think like a corporation, lady. They’ve proven much better at enslaving the masses and pushing home their agenda than all of the

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Where Are The Watchdogs?

“The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains.”
Alexander Cockburn, journalist