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Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone in 2014
If you've been reading this blog for any length of time then you probably already know that I am one of two resident attorneys on staff here. As of yesterday, I quit my law firm job of 5 years doing...
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Book Reviews: Dying Is My Business, Insomnia
Dying Is My Businessby Nicholas KaufmannIf you like the Harry Dresden series or any of the numerous other urban fantasies about modern day magic then you really ought to get this book. I bought it when...
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Contrition: Fox News vs MSNBC (Video)
Contrition: deeply felt remorseYou may often hear that MSNBC is just as biased as Fox news. To an extent, what you heard may be correct. However, MSNBC always lacked the venom and malice often seen...
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Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan - The 20th Anniversary
With the Winter Olympics quickly approaching, today we are taking a trip down memory lane to 1994. Six weeks before the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lellehammer, Norway, the skating world and tabloids...
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The Advantages of Disadvantages
In my downtime as a currently unemployed person, I've been taking the opportunity to catch up on some leisurely reading. One of the books I'm reading now is "David and Goliath" by journalist Malcolm...
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Robert Gates' New Book Attacks Obama
I don't know how it's handled in the Federal government workforce but in the private institutions I've worked in, often but not always, when someone decides to leave for greener pastures, there is an...
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BRIDGE-GATE!!!: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in Hot Water
Prior to moving to the New York/New Jersey area, I used to think that I knew what traffic was. I was sorely mistaken. Back in the midwest, when you get stuck in "traffic" you might be crawling along...
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Movie Reviews: We're the Millers, Elysium
We're the Millersdirected by Rawson Marshall ThurberI guess that Jennifer Aniston and/or her agent(s) would like you to know that she is still an attractive actress. Maybe this would explain in part...
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December Jobs Report and Unemployment
In December the U.S unemployment rate fell to 6.7%. This should have been good news. Being below 7% should be a good thing. It should have been something that was seized on by economists as a sign that...
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HBO Game of Thrones Season 4 Trailer
In case you missed it HBO released its first (I am sure there will be many more) trailer for Season 4 of its hit series "Game of Thrones". The show starts again on Sunday April 6. Enjoy the trailer...
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I Said Stop Texting During The Movie!!!
I am a movie buff. Love going to the movies. But there are a few things about the movie-going experience that definitely annoy me to no end. Such as the couple who comes in late and proceeds to...
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Would Dr. King Have Supported Twerking?
Apparently Martin Luther King Jr. did not only fight for the civil rights of blacks, the poor and other marginalized groups of people, he also believed in every persons right to...twerk? Yes, I said...
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Who Runs Kansas Schools: The Courts or The Legislature
Kansas is a centrally located state that has often been ground zero for a number of social changes, some good and some bad. John Brown made his bones in Kansas. It was after all Kansas that rang the...
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Book Reviews: Gates of Fire, Darkfall
Gates of Fireby Steven PressfieldGates of Fire is the literary equivalent of the films Saving Private Ryan or Glory in that from the outside looking in it seems to capture not only the horror but also...
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Black Man Arrested for Drinking Arizona Iced Tea
This could just be reason # 345,754 as to why I generally don't like the police. I view them as at best a necessary evil. Police often escalate situations unnecessarily. Below the jump check out a May...
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The Richard Sherman Interview - Good or Bad for Black People?
First of all, a bit of context. Last night, the Seattle Seahawks beat the San Francisco 49ers to go on to play in the Superbowl. Richard Sherman, a Seahawk (shown above), made the game winning play...
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More Trouble for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
When someone tells you who they are, you have no choice but to believe them. Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey is no exception. Since the moment he walked on to the mainstream political stage in...
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BREAKING NEWS: Remains of Avonte Oquendo Positively Identified
14 Year-Old Avonte Oquendo Confirmed DeadA city-wide search began last October for 14 Year-Old Avonte Oquendo, the autistic boy who disappeared from his Long Island City, NY middle school. Avonte was...
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Being Mary Jane & Scandal: Where are the Wives?
I'm a media junkie. I work in television news. I watch all types of television shows; the good, the bad, the ratchet and riot worthy. I love a great documentary, Nat Geo Wild is awesome, movies are a...
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Jayru Campbell Arrested
There was a lot of talk recently about whether or not Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman is a thug. I don't think he is. Generally speaking most thugs, in the most basic understanding of the...
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