December 2011
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I Took My Dog to a Chihuahua Playgroup (Seriously) →
I have never abused my dog. I’ve never beaten her with a stick, but she’s afraid of sticks. Nor have I hit her with the empty box to a printer cartridge, a large woolen throw pillow, an iPhone stylus, an asthma inhaler, a bra or an Ikea lapdesk. And yet these, too, are things that cause her to curve her body into a little beige comma and creep backward, eyes down, as though each item is laced with...
Compulsive Shopping Just Sucks
A lot of people seem to think compulsive shopping is a joke. I can hear a beer-bellied former frat boy saying to his buddies, “Don’t all women have that disease?” Hardy har. The reality is that as with any compulsion, the compulsion to spend can be just as destructive as the compulsion to drink or gamble or shoot up.
I have a family history of compulsive spending, and without getting into...
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Steampunkers! Justin Bieber Is Co-Opting Your... →
Justin Bieber has released a new Christmas video — which would normally be a lamentable but inevitable fact of the holiday season. But he has done so in “steampunk” fashion. God help us.
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Coming Out of the Closet About Being Jobless →
I decided to be honest with the readers of the Philly Post about the fact that I’m on unemployment benefits. I’ve been hiding it for too long, which is a shame because it’s such great material.
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Funemployment Tales: Of Beagles, Meaningless... →
At Philly Post I asked readers to share their unemployment stories with each other. The first man who replied is a Scottish dog lover.
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Why Republicans Won’t Get the Jewish Vote →
They can talk about fidelity to Israel all they want, but the GOP is the party of Christianity. And Jewish Americans are more secular than ever.