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A fire in Brazil, a fake fight in Phoenix and a real one in California
Dick Van Dyke brought his characteristic charm to the SAG Awards this weekend, and Internet users dutifully searched for all sorts of details on him -- anything to distract us from the icy weather that caused school closings from here to Ann Arbor. ...
Tags: Royal Rumble, Twitter, Inc., NFL Pro Bowl, Alec Baldwin, Social Media
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Dave Barry has snakes on the brain
As is widely stipulated, Dave Barry is a very funny guy. He was hysterical when he wrote his nationally syndicated column for the Miami Herald, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988, and is arguably even more droll in his madcap novels set in South...
Tags: Weddings, Chicago Tribune, Key Biscayne, Conservation, Values
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Manti Te'o and looking down at the Screen Decade
You are missing the point. Or at least, you are if you're one of the bazillion people following the Manti Te'o story, dutifully trying to determine whether the Notre Dame football star was the victim or the perpetrator of a bizarre hoax. Granted, the...
Tags: Manti Te'o, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Diane O'Meara, Human Interest
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No, Martin Luther King would not have endorsed Gun Appreciation Day
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...Tags: Shootings, Martin Luther King Jr., Minority Groups, Henry Ford, African-American History Month
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U.S. hiding behind tortured definitions
If it is true, as the writer Samuel Johnson once said, that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," then the dictionary must be the first. Consider how readily our leaders, in justifying what cannot be justified, parse definitions down to...
Tags: State of the Union Address, National Government, Justice System, Government, NBC (tv network)
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No Labels, no excuses
Last week, at a meeting in New York, it was announced that a group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers have agreed to get together once in a while and chat. This made news nationwide. Does that not tell you all you need to know about the sorry...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Philosophy, Justice System, Elections
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A new GOP, or just a cosmetic touchup?
Maybe the party is finally over. Meaning not simply the Grand Old Party, but more specifically the bacchanal of the bizarre and carnival of crazy to which it has lately devolved. So obvious has this devolution become that even Republican stalwarts...
Tags: Republican Party, Ted Nugent, Bobby Jindal, Herman Cain, Frontline Limited
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COLUMN: Not everything is better in the Screen Decade
You are missing the point. Or at least, you are if you’re one of the bazillion people following the Manti Te’o story, dutifully trying to determine whether the Notre Dame football star was the victim or the perpetrator of a bizarre hoax....Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Diane O'Meara, Human Interest, Entertainment Events
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Never ever, ever, ever — oops
A few words to ponder as we sail toward the "fiscal cliff." Those words would be: "That was then, this is now." Strip away the false piety and legalistic hair splitting offered by Republican lawmakers rationalizing their decision to abandon a pledge...Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Gallup, Inc., Justice System
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Instagram, X specs and a Kevin Bacon premiere
As traffic continues to flow to coverage of Super Bowl preparations, the Roe vs. Wade anniversary and post-inaugural activities, a few newer topics have also bubbled to the surface in our collective consciousness. Instagram is posting impressive numbers,...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Gaming, New England Patriots, Social Media, Google+
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Mayo on Florida Roundup on WLRN-91.3 at noon Friday
Sun SentinelI'll be on my favorite local radio show today, The Florida Roundup, on the local NPR affiliate, WLRN-91.3 FM, from noon-1 p.m. Topics include Florida state worker pensions, the Dolphins stadium renovations, voting fixes and the rest of the week's top...Tags: Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Entertainment, NPR, NBC (tv network), Radio
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AT&T, Genting, Internet cafes and Big Sugar pay the most to lobby
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — Companies, interest-groups and local governments paid $123 million to lobby the Florida Legislature last year, led by phone giant AT&T, Malaysian casino giant Genting, U.S. Sugar Corp., and an Oklahoma-based Internet sweepstakes cafe...
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