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Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Off the Bus, or on the subway?

Even in the early days of Huffington Post’s “Off the Bus” citizen journalism project, from before I joined up to contribute the occasional video, Mayhill Fowler was one of the standard bearers. Her writing was prolific and her access to campaign events pretty high as well. Since we were, after all, “citizen” journalists […]

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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

At least American Idol shows us Round 0 losers

I hate American Idol, and if you watch it, I probably hate you, too. Okay, not really; I have very dear friends in whom I quietly tolerate such behavior, because they quietly tolerate so many obnoxious things about me.
But there is at least one time a year where I might enjoy the […]

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Monday, February 18th, 2008

Trust me, it sticks

Two weeks ago, I hit a doggie landmine while I was out walking my own pooch (complete with my in-the-city necessity for clean living: plenty o’ poop bags). It took me three solid days to get that crap out of the treads of my sneaker.
But that’s not what I’m here to tell […]

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