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CULTURE: 
What Today’s Artists Could Learn From J.D. Salinger’s Life . 
David Jacob . Art for arts sake does not include placement in a T-mobile commercial.

LIFE: 
Selling Our Heritage Through Chocolate . 
Hazel Compton . The buying of Cadbury by Kraft left a sour taste to many.

LIFE: 
No Jobs: Fact or Just Plain Hype? . 
Roberta Seldon . Does the constant talk of unemployment make job seekers lazy?

MUSIC: 
From Jersey With Despair . 
Kyle Pfahler . The unlabeled tale of Titus Andronicus.

MUSIC: 
A Sophomore Album That Doesn’t Suck . 
Aaron Thesing . Vampire Weekend’s follow-up, Contra, is worthy of it’s number one position.

TV: 
Goodnight Conan, and Good Luck . 
David Jacob . Somehow I feel responsible for the firing of Conan O’Brien.



LIFE: 
Why the Weather Panic In the U.K.? . 
Ben Humphries . From food shortage to local governments cutting back on road treatment.

MUSIC: 
Music To Go . 
Ben Silverman . From Transistor radios to the Walkman to the iPod... the history of portable music has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly.

POLITICS: 
Hell Hath No Fury . 
Todd R. Vick . Should we be interested in Jenny Sanford’s book, Staying True?



LIFE: 
Is Wii Fit Really Exercise? . 
Lindsay Caudill . 

LIFE: 
What If Americans Were Profiled? . 
Todd R. Vick . Citizens from 14 countries will now be racially profiled in US Airports.

LIFE: 
Will We See the Housing Bottom? . 
Brian Dodd, Ph.D . Even the experts never know a bottom until after the fact. 

MUSIC: 
Facebook Fans Vote for Rage . 
Ben Humphries . A social networking slap in the face to Simon Cowell’s X Factor.



LIFE: 
Enough With these “Best Of” Lists . 
Ben Humphries . What’s with our obsession with ordering and ranking culture?

LIFE: 
Is It Called Reverse Domestic Violence? . 
Lindsay Caudill . Why are celebrity men getting beat up or even killed by their “significant” other

POLITICS: 
Give Glenn Beck the Pulitzer...Seriously . 
Tony Soares . Once you read the rules it makes perfect sense.

POLITICS: 
Eating Animals May Be Destroying Us . 
Alisha Ebling . Why we need to end big farming now.



LIFE: 
Help, I’ve Become a Blogger! . 
Ben Humphries . How I became addicted to the pretentious and narcissistic world of the blog.

LIFE: 
The Homeless Staple of Community . 
Lindsay Caudill . How the death of a local homeless women sheds light into an American epidemic.

SPORTS: 
Tiger Should Play Through . 
Todd R. Vick . Where is it written that when celebrities cheat they can no longer do their job?

SPORTS: 
The Tale of Tiger and His Tail . 
Todd R. Vick . How the media can’t let this story go.



LIFE: 
What’s The Price of Fame? . 
Lindsay Caudill . Balloon Boy and the White House crashers all prove that we’re just a bunch of Warholians dreaming for our fifteen minutes of fame.

POLITICS: 
Where Employment Recovery Begins . 
Roberta Seldon . Why are the ones that got us in this mess the ones we look to get us out?

MOVIE: 
The Twilight Saga: New Moon . 
David Bostic . Where’s Buffy when you need her?



LIFE: 
The Latest Art of Global Leakage . 
Todd R. Vick . From Jay-Z to K-Mart ads, this leakage is out of control.

LIFE: 
Time to Kill Black Friday . 
Levin Black . We should look back at the holiday shopping mishap of 2008. 

POLITICS: 
Why Pundits Create Problems for All . 
Alisha Ebling. 

POLITICS: 
The Fall and Reprise of the Berlin Wall . 
Todd R. Vick . Did MTV really build a big wall to celebrate the 20th anniversary?



LIFE: 
Hey! We Need To Talk . 
Todd R. Vick . Has Twitter and Facebook stolen our obsession with the television?

LIFE:
Is This The End of Credit Cards? . 
Roberta Seldon . 

Levin’s 7: Trick-or-Treat 
Was Halloween Scarier 70 Years Ago? . 
Levin Black . A quick look at some old creepy photos that will answer Yes!

POLITICS: 
Who Can You Sue? . 
Tony Soares . Or you could just take responsibility for your own poor decisions!

SPORTS: 
Is The Heisman A Popularity Contest? . 
Todd R. Vick . Why else would the front-runner have the worst stats of the bunch.



LIFE: 
Is Kindergarten the Latest Terror Group? . 
Todd R. Vick . Or do we just live in a new age of overreaction?

NEWS: 
Did Limbaugh’s Racism Prevent His NFL Touchdown? . 
Eddie J. Humfleet .

LIFE: 
Drop A Buck or Two . 
Tammy L. Linton . Are you a bad tipper?  Probably!

POLITICS: 
A One Term President . 
Tony Soares . Could our Hope blind us to what Obama may or may not accomplish?



POLITICS: 
The Maybe Awards . 
Todd R. Vick . President Obama won the Nobel Prize for “maybe” Peace.

LIFE: 
Do American’s Gossip Too Much? . 
Alisha Ebling . A look at why we have a great work ethic and love to talk about our co-workers.



NEWS: 
Do We Really Need Full Disclosure? . 
Todd R. Vick . A quick trip down the memory lane of affairs and extortion.

POLITICS: 
Global Warming; Yeah, it Matters . 
Tony Soares . 

POLITICS: 
Less Play, More School . 
Monica Phillips . Perhaps Obama’s idea for more education is a good thing?

BOOKS: 
Dan Brown’s Latest Box Office Hit . 
Marcia Susan Peters . Is The Lost Symbol just a re-worded Da Vinci Code?

MOVIE: 
Michael Moore: Muckraker Madness . 
David Bostic . Why Capitalism: A Love Story is a Michael Moore doc that actually needs to be told.

SCIENCE: 
Imagine Science Without Politics . 
Tony Soares . Now that is good dose of science-fiction.



POLITICS: 
Newsflash: Obama is Black! . 
Todd R. Vick . Does this mean Glenn Beck is not a racist?

LIFE: 
Goodness Daddy, My Baby’s Homeless  . 
David Kerr . How do you teach your daughter about homelessness?  Buy them this doll.

POLITICS: 
Too Much Obama, Not For McCain  . 
Roberta Seldon . The first runner-up is having a field day on all of the President’s trip-ups.

LIFE: 
2009: The Year of Pop Culture Loss . 
Eddie Humfleet . 

LIFE: 
Green: The Color of Irony . 
Tammy Linton . A look at the 100 year old non-biodegradable hot dog!

LIFE: 
How To Survive a Flood . 
David Kerr . 



POLITICS: 
Obamastan . 
Michael Hughes . Obama’s quagmire in Afghanistan.

LIFE: 
Remembering A Great American Author . 
Jeffery Pillow . My moment with William Hoffman.

POLITICS: 
Get Right, or Get Left . 
Todd R. Vick . Remember the good old days when Democrats hated spending money on war?

LIFE: 
The Mind of the Over-Analytic Female . 
Alisha Ebling . So we over analyze everything, but you guys don’t give us much to work with.

LIFE: 
Help! I’ve Become an Internet Stalker . 
Monica Phillips . Basically it’s called Social Networking. 






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LIFE:

Is This Post-Post Modernism .

Hazel Compton . Is the internet a big scrapbook of postmodern art, or just bridging the gap?




LIFE:

No Jobs: Fact or Just Plain Hype? .

Roberta Seldon . Does the constant talk of unemployment make job seekers lazy?









 


LIFE:

Big Business of Churchianity part 2 .

Todd R. Vick . Part two of this spiritually insight.  Read part 1




MUSIC:

Best American Folk Artists .

Kyle Pfahler . And how the “Tallest Man on Earth” made it so.




MUSIC:

A Sophomore Album That Doesn’t Suck .

Aaron Thesing . Vampire Weekend’s follow-up, Contra, is worthy of it’s number one position.




 


LIFE:

Checkout Line Chatter .

Lindsay Caudill . Believe it or not, but the National Enquirer has some great journalism.




TV:

Family Guy Did Not Make Fun of Trig .

David Jacob . And this article will prove it.





LIFE:

Selling Our Heritage Through Chocolate .

Hazel Compton . The buying of Cadbury by Kraft left a sour taste to many.



 
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