At Patheos: NRA: Switching horses mid-apocalypse

Source: Slacktivist

In stories featuring intentionally flawed protagonists, we can read with the hope that these characters will eventually be redeemed. Even when, as in The Sopranos, the repeated rejection of such redemption is the cent ...
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Bearded Gamer Show: The Demise of Guys is Wrong, The Internet is Damaging Society

Source: N4G

3d ago - See what the future holds for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™, as Game Director James Ohlen highlig... | PC 4d ago - From Pixel Apocalypse... "Diablo 3 launched this week to tons of hype and expectations. Like a... | PC 12d ago - On this week ...
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Best Comic Covers of the Week: 5/25/12

Source: ComicVine

Can you believe another week has already come and gone? Each week we see the release of some great comics, and the covers to many of those great books are impressive themselves. We've chosen some of our favorite comic covers for this ...
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Friday Night Music: Ten Favorites

Source: The New York Times

Recent Columns Egos and Immorality By PAUL KRUGMAN It has been almost funny to see how thin-skinned the Masters of the Universe really are as the role of Wall Street is debated by politicians. Dimon’s Déjà Vu Debacle By PAUL K ...
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Return Of The Big Gay Apocalypse

Source: Firedoglake

Exactly three and a half years after Michael Savage declared that support for Prop 8 meant that America is “probably 50 leagues below the degeneracy that brought about Hitler” and that “[i]t is why we’re melting down as a nation,” corrupt evil di ...
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Say what? Montclair Republican urges GOP to support Democrat Nia Gill, bunny needs a crib and shade trees 'up the wazoo'

Source: NorthJersey.com

"Say what?," a column that offers an insider's view of Montclair and goes behind-the-scenes of its politics, this week talks about a Montclair Republican raising money for Democratic N.J. Sen. Nia Gill; ...
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'We still have to fight. So for God's sake, fight.'

Source: Baltimore Sun

The greatest commencement address ever is now more than three decades old. And it's safe to say it will never be surpassed or even equaled. It belongs to the ages. In 1979, its author summed up the condition of modern ma ...
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The Cult's Ian Astbury still opening doors

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

The Cult, with Against Me! and Icarus Line When: 6:30 p.m. tonight, Friday, May 25 Where: Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay, 2241 Shelter Island Drive, Shelter Island Tickets: $59.55 Phone: (800) 745-3000 Online: ticketmaster.com From Alice Cooper and Doors ...
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Satantango, By László Krasznahorkai, trans. George Szirtes

Source: The Independent

EM Cioran, the brilliantly tenebrous Romanian thinker, wrote that melancholy is "that same fall into a languid mud, that same circling of the damned without a hell''. Replace that "circling of the damned" with a Hungarian csá ...
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