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How Reality TV Destroyed America
8 days ago
by petertypingfaster
Vanity Fair has a charmingly over-the-top piece on how reality television has destroyed America. Now I’m no fan of reality television, but even I have a hard time chalking up all of society’s ills to reality tv, no matter how bad it is (alright…I might make an exception for Jersey Shore). Still, as ...
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Adversity be Damned, Please Pass the Carmels!
8 days ago
by Ellie
photo credit: timlewisnm How do you choose to see your world? Is it filled with things going wrong or are you filled with the confidence to carry you over, around and through whatever life throws you? E-mail me at Ellie@BouncebackCafe.com or leave a comment at the end of this post. We love hearing f ...
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Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, et al, kvetching with style
8 days ago
by Andrew
The Yiddish verb for complaining, kvetch—literally to squeeze or to crush—has an onomatopoetic quality to my ear. All of those consonant sounds, squashed into a single syllable, surrounding the explosive grunt of the short E sound, to me, like the prolonged insistence of a grievance. And who has not ...
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