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...shirt. I told Dr. Magnum P.I. about my constant anxiety, insomnia and headaches - two more conditions than any previous patient had bothered to mention. He freaked out and gave me a pot license for only six months until I saw a psychologist. My lovely wife Cassandra, however, got a full year's prescription by claiming she was afflicted with a condition called "menstruation." Looking back, I'm pretty sure I could have used that...
...beginning, there was the dummy. Long before Dora the Explorer, children's television was dominated by a freckly marionette and his pal Buffalo Bob. Howdy Doody's template--a vaudevillian romp full of wacky characters and make-believe--was followed well into the 1960s, picked up by shows like Captain Kangaroo and Bozo's Circus. (Before syndication, early children's programs were franchised across the country; at one time there were more than 200 Bozo the Clowns working U.S. airwaves...
...Inconvenient Truth. Our Choice discusses the causes of global warming (fossil fuels, deforestation), viable solutions (renewable energy) and ways to make these solutions a reality (a CO[subscript 2] tax and a cap-and-trade system). It's packed with scientific data explained in painstaking detail--including a full-page graphic on how a wind turbine works--but it reads like a homework assignment. Gore's excellent lessons--why biofuel isn't as environmentally friendly as you'd think; why large-scale, sustainable changes won't occur until financial markets take climate costs into account--are presented as tedious lectures...
...Strangely!”), the lights dim on Napier at the close of the show, leaving her sprawled on the floor in the dark as in the first scenario. Now, however, we have at least some understanding as to the immediate cause. It’s a full circle orchestrated by Stone that capitalizes on the necessarily absent center of a continuous loop, and though the action has come to a close, its ideas continue to linger—unlike the show itself, which closes...
Sitting at Uno the other night with a table full of people, it struck me at some point that I was out of place. Not because I lack table manners or was dressed inappropriately—but because I was the only one without an iPhone or BlackBerry...