All politics is local – but how connected are politicians to “the locals?” Most everyone we know has watched The Simpsons, is either addicted to or hates Buzzfeed and they’ve definitely binge watched something on Netflix (House of Cards, Orange is the New Black etc). BHB Candidate Interviews: Jo Anne Simon | Pete Sikora | […]
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A true rumor defies the post-space age hum of the Internet. A true rumor is like a summer rain:…
September 5, 2014Listen to Episode 42: An Education Download From iTunes Here In this episode: The incredibly talented Mychal Denzel Smith is a contributing writer at The Nation, freelances for other major publications, makes frequent appearances on television and is prodigious on Twitter. He also spent four years at a distinguished university but never graduated. This is a story about questioning […]
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For the rest of our lives, we will all remember where we were on September 2, 2014, when we…
September 4, 2014My brother Peter turns 60 this week. That is a singular event that I would like to mark pleasantly…
September 2, 2014Although tortoises are not mammals, humankind should remain in awe of the achievement of Bek and Lek, two…
August 29, 2014Listen To Episode 2 Subscribe On iTunes In this episode Kate and Sally talk about some of their struggles this month, and answer a listener question about finances and friendship. Plus, what not to do when you see a table full of women at a restaurant. And a new theme song by Marty Scanlon! Music Credits: Theme […]
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This week a United Airlines flight from Denver to Newark was diverted to Chicago after two passengers got into…
August 27, 2014This past Sunday was the 32nd anniversary of the release of Chronic Town by R.E.M. I tried writing about…
August 27, 2014Bizarrely, live-action television has rarely been a particularly fertile venue for surrealism. This is very odd indeed, for the…
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