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Hipsters are the friends who sneer when you cop to liking Coldplay. They're the people who wear T-shirts silk-screened with quotes from movies you've never heard of and the only ones in America who still think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a good beer. They sport cowboy hats and berets and think Kanye West stole their sunglasses. Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don't care...
...Emergency Management Agency’s blunders—formaldehyde-laced trailers, for example—but also because when you’re the destination for so many mission trips and “disaster tours,” you might begin to wonder if the rest of America actually sees you as fellow citizens. A popular bumper sticker even declares, “Louisiana: Third World and Proud of It”. And there are those inescapable issues of race and class: Many of the residents are poor and black, while the do-gooders are white and college...
...very good sociopath, I can see why I stayed. We had been married for 15 years up to that point. And I believed him. It's as simple as that. I believed him when he said he had nothing to do with her. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
Originally comprising just 23 members, mostly from Southern states, the Blue Dogs supported the Republicans' Contract with America, complained that the Clinton White House was too liberal and called for a balanced federal budget. Shortly thereafter, the coalition's co-founders, Tauzin and Louisiana Representative Jimmy Hayes, switched to the Republican Party. Blue Dog numbers expand and contract with every election, and new members are adorably referred to as Blue Pups. Nineteen Blue Pups have won seats in the past two elections. Two were defeated and a handful more retired...
...addition to scrapping a requirement that employers provide workers with insurance, the senators are in favor of the excise tax and are reportedly targeting benefit packages that are worth more than $25,000 a year. As Len Nichols, director of the Health Policy Program at the nonpartisan New America Foundation, says, taxing employees "has been taken off the table in the Finance Committee, but it's still in the room because they haven't closed the [budget...