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Posted December 22, 2011
Top Five Movies of Scarlett Johansson In the world of internet searches, I?m sure this will end up in a set of ten far, far away from the page one of results. After a creepy phone hacker exposed Scarlett Johansson?s artistic self-portraits, I bet that is all anyone looked to find. (By artistic, I mean
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Posted December 21, 2011
For the most part, your immune system does a spectacular job of protecting you from microorganisms that could make you sick. But sometimes it fails and germs invade our bodies, causing sore throats, runny noses and itchy eyes. Winter is the time of year when most people get sick, so you need to help your
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Posted December 20, 2011
You hear all sorts of interesting things at the gym. There?s the guys on the weight machines grunting like constipated Neanderthals; calls over the loudspeaker for the next tanning client/skin cancer volunteer; TV?s playing either ?SportsCenter? or some show featuring the Kardashians; and homeboys in the locker room talking ?Modern Warfare 3.? All sounded perfectly
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Posted December 20, 2011
Nearly everyone reading this grew up learning that Thomas Edison invented electricity, and a lot of people still believe that today. They are wrong. Edison was a coked-up patent thief who, in the style of many other rapacious businessmen, took credit for things through media manipulation and relentless salesmanship. Don’t mistake any of that for
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Posted December 19, 2011
People approach credit cards in different ways.? For some, caution is king.? They might try to avoid plastic altogether or log onto their account management page after making a purchase so that they can pay off the entire balance immediately.? On the other hand, there are the free spenders: people who disregard things like credit
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Posted December 15, 2011
Any column about self-made men that’s worth anything owes a lot to Fredrick Douglass. For one thing, his lecture about self-made men is a must-read, a stunning piece of oratory wherein he argues that education and a strong work ethic are the basis for every successful man’s, uh, success. For another thing, he himself was
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Posted December 15, 2011
After weeks and weeks of the cute pixie girls and the willowy model types, with only Salma Hayek serving as a kind of break, I?m glad to come across the beauty of Jessica Biel. If I were still 14-year-old me I?d talk of her huge tracts of land, but let?s grow up and just say
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Posted December 14, 2011
2012 is right around the corner. That means wearing those ridiculous NYE hats while making out with your ex girlfriend in the corner of some dingy dive when the ball drops, taking too many shots of Patron, and welcoming in the new year with a list of crazy resolutions that you probably won?t keep. If
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Posted December 13, 2011
As a teenage punk, I ridiculed anything that wasn?t artistic, creative or safety-pinned. Weak and weak-minded, I?d rip apart ?jocks? who regularly worked out (ironic, since most of them could literally rip me apart with ease). The crappy thing is such ill-informed mockery is actually quite common in the artistic community. Going to the gym,
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Posted December 13, 2011
I must say, this week’s Awesome Men subject ? John Krubsack ? caught me off guard. He was a banker, for one, and certain current events (meaning the last three years or so) have made reading about bankers a very complicated and emotional task. Banking, speaking in strictly moral terms, has become less reputable than
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Posted December 12, 2011
Aside from a house, a car is the biggest purchase that most people will ever make.?Price listings and Blue Book values can give you an idea of how much your chosen ride is going to cost, but slick salesmen, factory add-ons,?and used-cars with hidden defects throw some intimidating variables into the mix. But what are
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