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Why you might try composing it backwards
I’ve always had a gripe with email application developers concerning the way they want us to write emails. When you go to write an email,...


Howling at the moon
Let's start with the trigger-warning. I'm not thinking about the violence—which is pretty much what any reasonable reader would expect,...


What the kale?!
The headline in The New York Times made my heart sink: “Kale? Juicing? Trouble Ahead.” Confession: I’m one of those Vitamix-loving,...

'Honey, what's Snapchat?' A remedial catch-up for texting grandmothers...
The reliably entertaining and readable blogger-cum-literati Amy Welborn flirts with Snapchat (Unfort., the rule is whenever over...


Heroism vs. Existentialism
With The Finest Hours, heroism returns to movies. True heroism — not the sentimental distortion of human duty and obligation that people...


#Beliebitornot
STOP ME IF you've heard this one before: Last month a topless Justin Bieber ambled into a West Hollywood Starbucks in search of a caramel...


One great MTV moment in time
"I fell in love with the video, a kind of comic-book noir that was groundbreaking then and still looks wonderful today." I could easily...


One more eulogy for Prince
Great even-handed tribute by Arsenio Orteza over at WORLD. After reading it I was struck by its understated effect and how little I...


A 'panagram' is...
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is commonly uses to display font samples. A popular sentence that uses all the letters in...


Captain America and Marvel Comic's Refurbishment of Aggression
Captain America: Civil War confirms our national dumb-down. While the mainstream media pretzel themselves over the presidential...
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