Rusty Unger
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Rusty Unger has been a New York-based magazine and book editor and writer as well as a film executive. She has written for television, motion pictures, and many national publications. Plus, she is not even all that old.

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The Last Days of Dick Cheney

Posted October 8, 2008 | 15:31:41 (EST)

With O.J. Simpson finally locked up, and the notion rekindled that justice will out, naturally my thoughts have turned to Dick Cheney. Is it possible to hope that somewhere down the line, that other arch criminal on the loose will receive his just desserts? I've been thinking of the...

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Bullet Points

Posted March 5, 2008 | 17:48:00 (EST)

In Education News today:

The Arizona State Senate is considering a bill to guarantee 21-year-olds the right to carry concealed weapons at public colleges and universities, and that is just plain wrong! Why leave out 18-year-olds? Considered perfectly capable of killing our enemies overseas, and deer and woodchucks at home,...
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Doubting Thomas

Posted October 3, 2007 | 12:11:12 (EST)

"Thomas believes the real issue being fought over during his confirmation was all but unspoken. "The issue was abortion. That's the issue today," Thomas says. "That was the elephant in the room." "In what sense?" Kroft asks. "That was it. That's the issue. That is the issue that people apparently...
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The Sopranos -- Episode 87: The Widening Gyre

Posted June 17, 2007 | 22:14:16 (EST)

SYNOPSIS

"Only in America do people think you can have your cake and eat it also..."

Out of blackness, the sound of blasting machine gun fire. It's dinner time at Janice's house and Bobby III is playing Doom III on his computer while eating take-out pizza...

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Wishing on a Czar

Posted May 29, 2007 | 22:34:32 (EST)

We all think it's funny that every time the government encounters an insoluble problem or a real mess, someone appoints a Czar to handle it . The Czar is someone who, when he fails (which is part of the job description), we can't remember anyway. It was recently pointed out...

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Kiddie Scorn

Posted May 13, 2007 | 22:58:50 (EST)

After "an exhaustive survey," according to the New York Times, two expert panels recently found that kids tried as adults end up committing more violent crimes than those tried as juveniles. The Department of No-Duh regrets that anyone had to get exhausted figuring this out.

We here at the...

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Dear Judge Roberts

Posted April 21, 2007 | 14:23:07 (EST)

Dear Judge Roberts,

I hear you're a smart guy, so I'm pretty sure you know that your recent anti-choice decision won't affect very many women: 0.17% tops. I know you know it is, afterall, still legal to kill and dismember (with multiple stab wounds), a late-term fetus in utero and...

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