My Thoughts on Current Events

Yeah, I’d say this conversation sums it up:
He: “Did you feel that earthquake this morning?”
Me: “What earthquake?”
He: “It was all over the news. Didn’t you watch channel 5 this morning?”
Me: “No. I don’t watch television anymore.”
He: “So, you missed those debates!?”
Me: “I tried.”
He: “Well…. blah-blah-blah (the extended version).”
Me: “Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah.”
He: “And did you [...]

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Shopping Tips for the Tax-Free Holiday

Tennessee’s Sales Tax Holiday begins Friday, April 25 at 12:01 a.m. and ends Sunday, April 27 at 11:59 p.m.
This holiday provides statewide tax-free purchases for school supplies, art supplies and clothing priced $100 or less per item and computers priced $1,500 or less. The holiday also includes purchases of qualified items [...]

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The Sociology of Art in Reverse

Recently, Yale University art student Aliza Shvarts duped the student newspaper with a story about inducing repeated abortions on herself and using the blood for her senior art project.
Shvarts told the student paper that she planned to display a work that consisted of a cube lined with plastic sheets with a blood and petroleum jelly [...]

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