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Dior, Caviar And Occupy Wall Street

You know you are culturally hip when magazines want to do their photo shoots with you in them - the poor Tea Party folks clearly have to get some representation in midtown Manhattan if they want to get haute couture coverage.Until then, Occupy Wall Street is the cool place to be solely for well-heeled fashionistas.  Kanye West looked silly showing up in a $300 shirt and gold chains to show...

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BeautifulPeople.Com Thinks The Virgin Mary Was One Of Its Members

BeautifulPeople.com, the dating community exclusively for good-looking people, is offering the chance to win a date with Joseph and the Virgin Mary - namely by spending a lot of money.  Well, not really the Virgin Mary, they don't want frogs raining on you or locusts infesting your kitchen this Christmas season.  Instead, they are shamelessly whoring themselves, and willing...

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Tent or Tetrahedron?

My younger kids each have a personal-sized dry erase white board and markers they use to draw things.  They make Transformers or cities or cities full of Transformers.Yesterday, my 8-year-old son drew a tetrahedron on his and the word 'tet' and I was intrigued by that. It was simple to be sure but it was a triangular-based period to me. Tetrahedra have a special place in my heart.  As a...

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PETA Declares War On Your Nintendo

So People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals doesn't like Super Mario.  Really, I don't either.  Wasn't he the bad guy in Donkey Kong?  Donkey Kong was the name of the game, after all, and the big primate only steals Pauline because Mario was a mean jerk to him. How did he suddenly become a good guy? Oh, that was 30 years ago?I am trapped in the past, just like PETA....

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I’m on KOA 850 Talk Radio With Mike Rosen In Denver This Morning

If you are in the Denver area, I am on KOA 850 radio with Mike Rosen in about one hour - they have an online tool to...

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False Equivalence One Side Never Mentions

False equivalence was the big deal two weeks ago, with political advocates Googling for evidence that there might be a Republican with a science Ph.D. (and then ostracizing any found, in the name of tolerance and diversity) and generally out to debunk the notion that the left might have its own kooks. read...

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