Three Extremes

A post-debate analysis Coming off, as we are, the first presidential debate, picking a topic for this week’s column was a quintessential “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” dilemma. On the one hand, I’m getting really, really tired
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Say What You Mean

Last year, former Ruffin’ It punchline Ricky Gervais made a pretty god-awful movie called “The Invention of Lying.” The film posits a world in which the very concept of lying has not yet been discovered. Essentially, it was a setup
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Elections and Olympiads: Defeat Through Complacence

So far, this year’s Olympic Games have been comparatively devoid of anything resembling our traditional notion of drama. Don’t misunderstand me; I’ll allow that some crazy stuff has gone down — the American men’s gymnastic team completely eating it during
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