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From Salon: “You Just Killed the Weed Man”: Adventures in Buying (Legal) Pot

What I thought was a sushi joint turned out to be a marijuana boutique.

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Clavey

Facing some fear on a fast-moving river.

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Reborn Saints and Newborn Babies: Complex and Contradictory Themes in the Advertising and Halftime Show of Super Bowl XLIV

Leave it to America to present a geriatric sexuality on its biggest stage, in swift and sharp reaction to the one moment a naked boob was seen on live television.That single second of boob exposure catapulted us into a now six-year cycle of men in the target market for Viagra.

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Teenagers vs. Ethyl Alcohol

Teenagers, I have discovered, are like alcohol or drugs. Many of them also like alcohol and drugs, but that is another matter. I am herein concerned with the glaring similarities in my own life, between teenagers and that most famous of drugs, alcohol. Lately there have been more teenagers and fewer alcoholic beverages in my […]

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"You Gotta Believe"

Rebecca’s birthday present this year was two tickets to see the Mets at Shea Stadium. After a bag search and full-body metal-detector sweeping, we made it to our seats just in time to sit out the national anthem. I like to get to a ball game on time, if only for the pleasure of publicly […]

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