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Entries by Michael Sigman from 03/2011

But Enough About Kenya -- Where'd Mike Huckabee Grow Up?

| Posted 03.04.2011 | Comedy
Read More: John McCain, President Obama, Morning Joe, Mitt Romney, Donald Rumsfeld, Goober Pyle, Rock Hudson, Indonesia, Kenya, Mike Huckabee, Richard Blumenthal, Richard Nixon, Gomer Pyle, Sarah Palin, Floyd the Barber, Hillary Clinton, Mayberry, Newt Gingrich, Ron Ziegler, Aunt Bee, Comedy News

When Mike was ten, Rock Hudson famously married Gomer. The two men raised young Mike as their son until he went off to apprentice with Floyd the barber, another Mayberry icon.

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Mr. President: Win One, But Not for the Gipper

| Posted 03.10.2011 | Politics
Read More: Time Magazine, Ronald Reagan, Cold War, Barack Obama, Caspar Weinberger, Douglas Brinkley, Libya, Unemployment, Egypt, Middle East, Cnn, Dan Rather, Piers Morgan, Muammar Qaddafi, Romans, Deficit, Cairo, Estate Tax, Politics News

Obama seems to have overlooked Reagan's greatest gift and most effective tactic: the ability to declare that virtually any triumph that happened while he was president as his own.

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Brooks Pits 'Connection' vs. 'Adventure,' But Why Not Both?

| Posted 03.16.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Foreclosures, Depression, The Social Animal, Prius, Jack Kerouac, It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra, Power of Lonely, Conservative, Salon, Comfort Inns, On the Road, Unemployment, New Yorker, David Brooks, Financial Crisis, New York Times, American Banking, Healthy Living News

The conservative writer/commentator David Brooks, in this New Yorker excerpt from his new book The Social Animal: A Story of Love, Character, and Achi...

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Why We Hate Going to the Dennis

| Posted 03.22.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Bill Clinton, Left Wing, John McCain, Esp, Lefty, Ronald Reagan, Jack the Ripper, Albert Schweitzer, Kurt Cobain, The Boston Strangler, Barack Obama, The Social Animal, Neuroscience, David Brooks, Parrots, Soccer, New York Times, Glenn Beck, Woody Allen, Designated Hitter, Lenny Bruce, Pat Robertson, Comedy News

Researchers say that if your appellation is Dennis, you are more likely to become a dentist than a differently monikered individual. But I'm not so sure about this.

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'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' at 50: A Song for the Ages

| Posted 03.28.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Dick Smith, Jay and the Americans, Jay Traynor, George Harrison, Pete Seeger, Jay Siegel, My Sweet Lord, Hank Medress, RCA Records, Phil Margo, Capitol Records, Disney, Mbube, Mitch Margo, He's So Fine, Wimoweh, Rome, Worc, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Solomon Linda, The Angels, The Weavers, The Chiffons, The Tokens, She Cried, Entertainment News

Seventh grade metal shop had nothing to do with shopping and, for this suburbanite of Jewish descent, everything to do with avoiding death by power to...

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