Barry Parham
Author of the 2009 book, "Why I Hate Straws," a collection of humor which includes the award-winning stories "Going Green, Seeing Red" and "Driving Miss Conception."
In October 2010, Barry published "Sorry, We Can't Use Funny," another award-winning collection of general-topic satire and humor, and the more targeted "Blush: Politics and other unnatural acts."
"The Middle-Age of Aquarius" (2011) is Parham's 4th collection of humor, satire and observations, and features more award-winning stories, including 'Comfortably Dumb,' 'Snowblind' and 'The Zodiac Buzz-Killer.'
All titles available at amazon.com
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In October 2010, Barry published "Sorry, We Can't Use Funny," another award-winning collection of general-topic satire and humor, and the more targeted "Blush: Politics and other unnatural acts."
"The Middle-Age of Aquarius" (2011) is Parham's 4th collection of humor, satire and observations, and features more award-winning stories, including 'Comfortably Dumb,' 'Snowblind' and 'The Zodiac Buzz-Killer.'
All titles available at amazon.com
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Knock, KnockSome people just take humor way too seriously
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Scenes from a MaulFull-contact shopping, American style
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Full Frontal StupidityIt's sad when the review's better than the movie.
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Chez Oog's Raw BarA history lesson, including the first ever "Here, smell this."
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Fang Festival FolliesKids. Candy. Corpses. Career politicians. Okay, no corpses.
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Trousers 2.0From fabric to Facebook. Sometime progress isn't.
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Fifty Grand for Tale-Gunner JoeAll States were created equal. All statesmen were not.
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Duck! Soup!When healthy food kills you, who do you call?
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Great Colons in US HistoryNever underestimate a Queen & her money
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Table for One?Why we need a cost-of-living index for Single Guys
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Turn Left...Um...EventuallyThe continuing race toward an adjective-free America
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The Good, the Bad and the Profile-ChallengedDon't say "ugly." Say "homely-enabled." Or "Jerry Springer guest-ish."
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The Turbeaux DiariesReflections on corporate taxonomy, if not outright taxidermy
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The Future King of TongaHow to abdicate a throne when you don't rule anything
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How to Survive Disaster AdviceYour tax dollars at work. Well, somebody's tax dollars.
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Return of the Giant Vote-Sucking LocustsThe good news: it's only every four years. The bad news: it lasts for five.
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I'm Just Sayin'Nothing special. Just sweeping clutter off the porch in my head.
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Pets Are People, TooHey! Who you callin' a dumb animal?
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Can You Borrow WHAT?If this is the American dream, please wake me up.
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Till Debt Do Us PartCongress. Casey. Zombies. Czars. Lemonade. Only in America.
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Blowing Up & Other Fun HobbiesThere's more than one definition of "traction"
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Noir, Y'allAn unfinished chapter from a non-existent novel
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Today Only - 77 Trombones!One small step for man; one giant weekend tent sale!
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Rocky's Run for the BorderCommuning with nature, but with a dash of vengeance
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The Many Advantages of Not Working from HomeFor every cloud lining, there's some silver nitrate
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Man of the PeepholeOh, what a tangled world wide web we weave
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How Will Ya Spin It?fib ipsa loquitor -- the lie speaks for itself
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The Middle-Age of Aquarius"Flower adult" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it?
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Setting Up Your Own Non-ProphetSuppose you threw a super-nova and nobody came?
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Three Mittens for Tim's CatToothpaste, toys, tires and TVs? In the same shopping cart?
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Honey, was that the Door?Short Attention Span Theater logs another millisecond
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Saint Clement Has Second ThoughtsClothing makes the man...take a woman...to the Abbey
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Things Not to Say at WorkHow to win friends, influence people, and get fired
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Commuter ScienceFun-filled facts for following fascinating freeway fauna
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How to Survive a Government ShutdownA publication of the Dept of Government Shutdown Survival
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Uncle Sam, IncFor this employment exam, I think you're SUPPOSED to cheat.
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We, the Other People13 stars, right? No, wait. 13 stripes. Right? No, wait.
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Midnight in the Axis of Good and EvilOn fashion, firepower, and finding a decent agnostic cheeseburger
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Some Celery for SamsonTop o' the food chain, Ma! Top o' the food chain!
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How to Awesomefy Your DoppelgangerIf you're time-traveling, can you still be late?
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Too Good to Be FalseNo, it's not just you. We're confused over here, too.
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King Tut & the CheeseheadsConfused? Wait till you see the NEXT 5,000 years!
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Abby Redux VIIAn odd Valentine's Day for America's favorite irritated columnist
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National Weekday MonthThe new 13-page Zodiac-adjusted calendar! Now with Octemberary!
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The Zodiac Buzz-KillerThe effects of salad dressing on the last 20,000 years
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Stallions, Skulls & Saint Funnel CakeHorses in a hockey rink. What could go wrong?
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SnowblindHow to not become Jack Nicholson during a blizzard
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Life Irritates ArtA bird in the hand is still not safe from The Bush.
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Santa Cops a PleaAmerica rushes to get out of 2010. Can you blame them?
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Of (Mutant) Mice and Men (in Tights)The Nutcracker Suite: what your parents didn't tell you
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Frijoles Con AndrogynyIndignation, indigestion, invisible women: could this be love?
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Dear Santa: Send Lawyers, Guns & MoneyChristmas Presents For Guys! As Lied About On TV!
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Lame Duck SoupLate 2010. Not exactly America's best day. Or week. Or month. Okay, year. Okay, ...
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Home for the Hollow DaysCandy corn to candied yams to candy canes. America.
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Airport InsecurityFear and loathing for the frequent flyer
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Abby Redux VIOur favorite grumpy columnist greets the elites
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Big TeethAn analysis of history's most expensive beauty contest
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Pecan Pirates of the Pluff MudYou are now entering South Carolina. Got rogues?
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Slash & the GhostBarbecue, boredom and bird therapy. Another day in South Carolina.
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We Are the Walrus2010: The battle of the ballot rises to a new low
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Courting the Zombie CaucusTo politicians, you're never dead. You're just an oxygen-deferred undecided.
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Comfortably Dumb500 million witnesses, and nobody saw anything?
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He Said WHAT?We should always honor perfection. Even when it's stupid.
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Abby Redux VOur favorite angry advice columnist counsels on the current economy
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Pick a NumberIf you traded in an Infinity, could you prove it mathematically?
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This Could Take a WhileEternity. It just won't end. I think that's the point.
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Aliens for the TwinsFame. Crime. Greed. Gravy biscuits. What's a girl to do?
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Duke Sigmoid's VuvuzelaThe 'aging' dance continues. And I thought eyebrow dandruff was bad.
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Otis, Isis and the Evil EmpireDracula. Health insurance. Solar flares. Egypt. All connected. Who knew?
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How Congress Spent My Summer VacationSome call it "global warming." We call it "summer."
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Abby Redux IVDealing with the public begins to wear on our favorite irritated columnist
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Decalogue 2.0Announcing the new Ten Commandments upgrade! Now with less guilt!
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The Deification of Forest A. PhelpsHey. If you can't have faith, have lunch!
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Abby Redux IIIMore rants from our grumpy advice columnist
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Big Al Busts a MoveAs usual, it's the quiet ones you have to watch
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WorldshakerHistory: it's all about big guns and bad beer
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Thursday, as I EvolvedIf we're voting, here's mine: ALL surgery is invasive
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Queasy RiderJunk mail, bad hobbies, and a permanent limp
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Abby Redux IIAbby fends off academia, alchemy and atavism
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Godzilla Gets a PralineHow music saved America from several scary monsters
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Abby ReduxFree advice. It's worth every penny.
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PerfectNotes on dating and other self-inflicted wounds
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Clay PigeonsAn idling afternoon. An unassuming customer. An unsettling conclusion.
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Area 51 & the Water WitchesVegas voodoo, pollo politics, and one alien's quest for tenure
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Ozzy and HarrietThe last reality show, on the last surviving TV network
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Shrimp and CocktailsThere's a reason why intelligent life keeps refusing to contact our planet
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WWW.USELESS.COMInformation super-highway? Maybe. But there are still potholes.
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Communication's Swiss Army KnifeHow to win friends, influence people, and conquer Russia
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Razing ArizonaAn immigration story from the Arizona border, with a twist.
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Caught Between Woodstock and Wall Street1970. Restless youth. Clueless, too.
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Brussels Sprouts & GuillotinesYour tax dollars at play
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Gods: 3, Chariots: 0Houston, we have a prodrome
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Bar(code) HoppingOdysseus and Einstein meet Enya and expired coupons
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Jarping with OstaraAn American tale of children, mutant rabbits, and flak jackets
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All My Friends Are PluralWhat's a synonym for 'antonym?'
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Vote for Timmy!A new Manchurian Candidate courts the masses
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Me Two Gets Her WayOdd bedfellows collide in one of America's possible futures
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The 2010 SenselessUnlike us, Washington counts their sheep BEFORE bedtime
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Priority MaleThe Post Office. The DMV. The IRS. Meet your new doctors!
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Noah Joins the AARPThe advantages of growing older. This will be a very short article.
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The Curse of the Third EyeOne of the benefits to self-analysis is I can validate my own parking
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High Noon in Debt ValleyThis may be the first White House to win an Oscar
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Welcome to the MachineHere's an idea: let's boil the politicians, and elect the sausage
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Handling Pan(A man, a goat, a shark, and a Lama)
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A Comedy of ErosFrom pagan Rome to pajama-grams in only MM years
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Cue the Stunt Turtle!Iran, Toyota, and the FAA compete for the Darwin Awards
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Bob's Last DayBully pulpits, citizens' arrests, and corporate corporal punishment
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Reigning Cats & DogsComments from the top of the food chain, while I'm still up here.
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General Relativity MotorsParallel parking in a parallel universe
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Welcome to Severed Oaths!Helpful tips on getting other people to help you with self-help
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Wring Out the Old2009. We thought we were too big to fail. Wrong again.
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HeroesThe trick to reality is in learning how to fake it.
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Weak in the NewsSome of this is true. None of it ought to be.
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A Creyer ChristmasSmall towns, big events, high holidays, low tolerances
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Season's GratingsA Yule blog
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Lord Metatron and the Otter WardenOnce again, the internet has all the answers. But you should hurry.
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West of Southeast NorthPost-colonial culture, decoded cuisine, and nervous horses
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Sorry, We Can't Use FunnyFacing the Fourth Estate, the Fifth Dimension, and some serious candle management
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Pearls Before PandemicHow America's youth discovered a cure for Government Health Care
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Potted Meat & the Bad GuysHow 31,000 years of technology plan to seriously screw up your weekend
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Actuarial Family TheaterRisk management, food chains, neurotic rabbits, and evil sea aliens
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23Another day, another disaster, a new American Hero
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More Stockholm, Less SyndromeSome thoughts on bogus prizes, real czars, and blowing stuff up
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Mannequin of the PeopleHow much is that politician in the window?
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Tubular Gerbil InsuranceIf it's really gonna be UNIVERSAL health care, let's include snakes
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Gravity and AndyOne small man, one large universe, one lousy afternoon for both
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There Goes the NeighborhoodHow nice it would be sometimes to just say, "Beam me up, Scotty."
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Anybody Else Will DoEvery hates Congress. But everybody loves their member of Congress. This could get tricky.
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Truth in (spite Of) AdvertisingHow to survive a bad economy, if you don't mind the bad karma
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9 Out of 10 People Can't Be Right!Only 8 million more shopping ads till Christmas!
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Trivial News, Hirsute PursuitsHow to present all the news when there isn't any
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Progress or Congress?Eco Cars, Wacko Czars and Capitol Stars: beware the Axis of Stupid
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Sex and Free MoneyObservations on obsessions, politics, and pretzels
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Headlines from the AftermathWhen there's no curtain, and no man behind it, don't pay attention
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If You Can't Say Anything Nice..The gap narrows between being Politically Correct and making a Citizen's Arrest
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A Day in the LifeEver have one of those days when you keep asking yourself why you keep asking yourself?
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Ale to the ChiefTastes great. Less filling. The argument for (and against) American culture continues.
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Lip ServiceSome free speech is worth every penny you paid for it
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Love Means Never Having to RecalibrateActually, you CAN go home again, but sometimes you may wish you hadn't
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You Want it When?So! Working hard? Or hardly working? Or hardly worth it?
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Driving Miss ConceptionSome helpful clues for spotting the clueless and the helpless
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Big Carl's Eventual HolidaySmall town America can be a great vacation destination, but not if it's this small
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Did We Hear from Oprah?Writers can be notoriously elusive, but here, we may have a winner
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No Small AffairAmerica makes it to another birthday, in spite of ourselves
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Burgers, Beaches and Blue-BloodsIf you survived 400 million years just to get stabbed in the back, you'd be crabby, too
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Rise, My PeopleThe internet didn't just build itself, you know. I did it.
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Know Your Blood Typo!A look at how a fast technology can quickly make you look slow
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Alaska's Fault: Bush's Fault?Alaska, California, various ways to die, and a bit of Governor comparison
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Evil, IncThe downside of immortality is all those monthly insurance premiums
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Don't Touch that Dial!Now that television has gone digital, we can look forward to digital garbage
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The State Vs. WinkieConsidering our diet of nursery rhymes, it's a wonder my generation ever slept at all.
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Judy, Jeeves and PearlPet ownership, tough decisions, and the penguin lobby
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State 50.5Why our capitol is the way it is. Or not. I'm not sure it matters anymore.
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Look Sharp!Washington seems to want to manage everything else, so let's throw in hair loss
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I, Robot, Do Solemnly SwearA 10-year anniversary I really hope we can avoid
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Memo from ManagementCorporate morale in the new corporate America.
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The Importance of Safe SextantsA brief history of a famous flight, and a brief flight from truth.
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Headlines from the Year 2025The potential silliness of 15 more years of silliness
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Why I Hate StrawsI'll be flying the flag, but that's all I'll be flying.
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...And Then He Hit Me..A case of positive reinforcement on negative feedback
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Staving Off MasculinityAnother cosmic truth: locks are to keep Security Salesmen out.
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Closing the Hasp on My Fannie TarpThe new America
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20% Off with Their Heads!Fighting off the urge to buy in bulk, when you don't live in bulk
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The Girl for MeDating options, for the single guy, including very lame options
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Mother's WhistlerSo you thought Mother's Day was immune to sarcasm? Read on...
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Going Green, Seeing RedWhy Earth Day is celebrated, but not on Earth
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Lather, Rinse, RetreatThe effects of a frightening economy on a frightened economy, plus a bit about ferrets
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Our Foundering FathersA humorous look, 100 days on, at President Obama and Washington on inauguration day.
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On Being AvuncularA humorous look at uncles, nieces and who is really babysitting whom.
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Mother of the Year(ling)A humorous look at names, nicknames, Moms and childhood.
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Calming the WatersA humorous look at office politics, rumors and a bad economy
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For the Want of a Nail..Budges, taxes, refunds, Congress and misplaced guilt
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Adam Smith, RevisitedWall Street, the economy and other weird things from that weird world
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Back at the Tok Kiosk's Mukluk RackA look at American towns, even in Alaska.
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An Avuncular AfterwordMore on the wonderful world of being an uncle, and the off-world of being single.
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Culture, Shocks and a LubeSurviving in a small town, in spite of opera.
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Varmint Grooming 101Observations from another trip to the drug store.
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Art Imitates Art: The 2008 Presidential ElectionThe Presidential Candidates give it their all - which ain't much...
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Head of the CountryObama bumps his head - that's it ... that's all he did.
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The Tales of Luddite JohnsonLife, before and after the end of civilization.
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UnrealtyOne more look back, upon leaving Disney World, and Florida, which are more or less the same thing
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Up the Holler a PieceHitting the back roads in the Carolinas, in search of one particular mountain.
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"Favorite" is a Verb?A look into social networking sites, and why they may cause you to pass out from ennui
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On Being an IslandNotes on being single, and on being traditional, and on being confused by many other things, too
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Things I've Learned from TelevisionIt wouldn't be called the 'boob tube' if we could find a word that rhymes with 'idiot'.