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Rob Harvilla
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Culture Editor

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The Wikipedia article says the traditional gifts list originated in 1937, which makes a lot of sense. Those are definitely Depression-era gifts. Read more

We were pretty good about anniversaries until we had our first kid. Then I think we remembered a couple weeks after it happened. Seasons of life, and all that.
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I enjoyed it. He had me laughing quite often just within the first few minutes and throughout the show. And I enjoyed the Whitney joke but I’m also the kind of guy who had a trivia team name “Whitney Houston: 3 years Sober” earlier this year so that joke was right up my alley.
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Even with the Pope’s blessing, the Eagles are still only a 6-10 team. Read more

17. Yuengling Oktoberfest (Pennsylvania; 5.5). What can you do. Read more

I’ll give it a listen, but I’m pretty tired of rappers talking about pussy all the time.
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It’s a normal thing, with the Jets, seeing a fumble caused by an asshole. Read more

It’s what i was coming here to say.
The first movie was met with a catharitic release that was deeply troubling and a sign of things to come. It’s only gotten worse since.
They thought it was sooooo awesome that people were getting tortured and not given “due process”, BOPEs borderline fascist approach and motto became Read more

Great analysis. Fun fact: here in Brazil (mostly within the richer classes) few people got Padilha’s criticism of the police brutality, people liked Cpt. Nascimento ESPECIALLY for killing people on the favelas... The scene in the restaurant in the second movie where Nascimento gets an ovation is basically how people Read more

Even if the article included footnoted versions of every relevant statue and precedent for each state — which would likely require being an expert in every state’s statues and precedents on the topic — it’d still probably have to be asterisked to hell with “yeah, buts”. I’ve always looked at these as: here’s the basic Read more

“(Note: You’ll also need to figure out how to prove the damage occurred on the hotel’s watch.)“ Read more

I’m torn. I rolled my eyes when it was announced because Heroes squandered all its first-season goodwill by the time it limped to its apparent conclusion. And since then, as you hint, we’ve gone from having Heroes as the only show of its kind (do you count Smallville, really?) to having Agents of SHIELD, Daredevil, Read more

i think its worth mentioning that the writers guild strike completely destroyed this show. They were coming off a great season or really in the midst of it. Read more