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...shortly after Ashcroft's letter, Pratt had achieved some notoriety for a GOA press release following an incident in which a 15-year-old boy in Springfield, Oregon, shot and killed his parents and two students at his school. Pratt responded with a release headlined, "Lesson of School Shootings: More Guns Needed at Schools...
December should be about mistletoe and dreidels, family and friends, giving and sharing, and a steady supply of good old holiday cheer. The season has its immutable rituals-looking for that perfect tree, basting that hormone-injected dinner bird, setting up lighted lawn decorations (in Springfield Fla. this week, one man put up a display of two reindeer getting it on, much to his neighbors' horror-but that's an exception), and frantic last-minute dashes to the mall for almost-forgotten gifts. Ah yes, Holiday Happiness is everywhere-everywhere, that is, except Hollywood, where the promise of even temporary...
...show is smart and educational; it is political, historical, literary, scientific and cultural. For example, this season premier featured a giant wall that cut Springfield in half. (Fortunately, by the end of the episode it was torn down by the great British tunes of "The Who"). Like many viewers, I get smarter with the show; sometimes the show leads...
...only does "The Simpsons" cross age boundaries, the show has an appeal that spreads across geography, and manages to exclude nobody. The show is set in Springfield, USA. With 121 Springfields in the United States, viewers have no regional or urban bias (some Springfields are more city-like than others). Meanwhile, "The Simpsons" is not only an American cultural fixture; it is an international phenomenon. It is syndicated in multiple dozens of countries worldwide. It may be no surprise that my roommates and I come from a Boston suburb, the deep Midwest, rural Germany and New York City. Despite...
McCarthy has already drafted a suit against Springfield's domestic partnerships program...