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DTS Voters: A Return to Nonpartisan Normalcy?

Edward Headington | Posted 05.30.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Bill Clinton, Decline-to-State-Voters, Mark Paul, Normalcy, California, Warren Harding, Democrats, Los Angeles, California-Crackup, Politics, Independents, Dts, Voters, Coro CrossTalk, Orange County Register, Daily News, Gotv, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco, California Open Primaries, Republicans, Los Angeles News
Edward Headington

The average Angeleno does not live, eat and breathe politics. Partisanship is the last thing on their minds, and it is probably easy to understand why registration for independent voters is climbing.

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Does 'Normal' Really Exist?

Donna Flagg | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Normal, Learning Disabilities, Societal Norms, What Is Normal, The Balanced Life, Normalcy, The Norm, Norm, Learning Disability, Healthy Living News
Donna Flagg

Maybe, at the end of the day, there is something not so "normal" in thinking that everyone, in the whole wide world, should be the same.

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Refudiate is the New Normalcy

Asher Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Sarah Palin Twitter, Glenn Beck, Refudiate, Normalcy, H.L. Mencken, Warren Harding, Sarah Palin, Alvin Greene, Politics News
Asher Smith

Sarah Palin's right that "English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too." And that's something to be afraid of -- because she's contributing far more to the trough of public consciousness than just a few verbal miscues.

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Is Striving to Conform Still the Norm?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: New Normal, Social Norms, Society Culture, Normalcy, Societal Norm, The Giving Life, Social Culture, Conformity, Healthy Living News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

As a country, we are pregnant with the lowest common denominator. We now view adaptability as virtue, and the desire to radically transform oneself and the world as insanity.

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The Normalizing of the Presidency

David D. Burstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: White House, Vice President, Political Commentary, Normalcy, President Obama, Psychology, Presidency, Barack Obama, Government, Politics, American Politics, Obama White House, Political Psychology, Obama Presidency, 2008 Presidential Race, Presidential Election, Politics News
David D. Burstein

Barack Obama might be one of the most normal presidents we have had in years. His connectedness to the real world is one of the things that made him appealing as a candidate.

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The Search for Normalcy

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: New Normal, Great Panic of 2008, Normalcy, Risk Management, Post-Bubble, Great Recession, Bubbles, Risk, Financial TImes, Market Equilibrium, Businessweek, Business News
Robert Teitelman

One view of "normal" has come out of the crisis stronger than ever: that "normal" doesn't exist at all, that the belief in market equilibrium has been effectively undermined.

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Jackson Wasn't Normal. So what?

David Berreby | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Michael Jackson, Science, Statistics, Normalcy, Entertainment News
David Berreby

This prejudice in favor of the typical is on full display this week, as the world reacts to the death of Michael Jackson.

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No One Who Was Normal Ever Made History: A Tribute to Michael Jackson

James Arthur Ray | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Michael Jackson, Normalcy, Michael Jackson Death, Michael Jackson Dead, Jesus, Geniuses, Michael Jackson Dies, Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Genius, Death, Life, Icon, Fame, Tribute, Entertainment News
James Arthur Ray

Michael's life, when considered within the broader scope of highly creative people throughout history, was not really that unusual after all.

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Feeling Normal?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: The 1970s, Stds, Normalcy, Queens, Gypsy, Joan of Arc, Arthur Rimbaud, Teenage Girls, Dostoyevsky, Gypsies, Allen Ginsberg, New York City, Religion, James Joyce, Iconoclasts, High School, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Penicillin, Reading, 1970s, Teenagers, Style News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

I grew up in a place, Bayside, New York; a place where, when I mentioned Nietzsche, the woman who lived above me asked, "if you take Penicillin, will it cure that?"

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