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A Parabola mapping our American Trajectory
The St. Louis Arch represents all the Progress we made as a modern society in the 20th Century, we Americans, in technology, modernism, business, the arts, journalism, mass media, medicine, education, trade, politics, electrification and electrical generation, automobiles, airplanes, foreign policy, foreign trade, food, democracy, industrial and ...
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Architecture
by
MichaelBernard1
on
June 14, 2008
R. Kelly Blog
Mr. Levin has created an accurate, achingly funny blog that succinctly captures the foibles and the laughable statements and attitudes of the many participants. As much as I'm enjoying reading it, I assume that HBO has purchased this for a mini-series. Better, funnier and longer than ''Barbarians At the Gate''.
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Dispatches
by
Lew Troop
on
May 23, 2008
Ben Stein and pets
Ben Stein's piece on providing funding for the care of deserted cats, dogs, and other pets is ridiculed in this article and characterized as satiric at best, The way animals are mistreated in America is shameful and indefensible. Stein deserves praise for having the chutzpah to bring this issue out into the open on a nationally broadcast, serious ...
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Television
by
katknit
on
April 28, 2008
"Why CBS should shutter its news division"
Brilliant piece of satire about an ailing medium (with some participants who are suffering from sickness as well)! It amazes me why some programs which should be pronounced 'dead on arrival' continue to persist and sputter, only to continue spiraling downward in midair! I agree with the author of this hilarious, but true to life piece--let's ...
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Television
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Bob W
on
April 28, 2008