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TV: Fantasy ‘Bachelor Pad’ Will Change Your Life!

Aug 22, 2010 1 Comment by Preston Johnson

If you haven’t watched The Bachelor Pad yet, you’re missing out. It’s easily the greatest television show of the last 10 years, if not of all time. Is it dumb? Yes. Is it trashy? Certainly. But that’s what makes it so great!

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CULTURE: ‘Mom and Dad, Why Don’t You Pick?’: Thoughts on Arranged Marriages

Aug 19, 2010 1 Comment by Kristin Clift

As an aspiring anthropologist, I do not believe in the Western notion of sustainable romantic love. (Cynical much? Maybe, but that’s another story.)

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FILM: Review: Salt

Aug 11, 2010 No Comments by Jordan Petersen

Everyone in the world knows how hot Angelina Jolie is. Barack Obama is the United States’ first black president, Iran is making atomic weapons, and Angelina Jolie looks really good in tight clothing. It’s just one of the facts had by the entire international community.

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BOOKS: Review: The Advanced Genius Theory

Jul 05, 2010 No Comments by Ben Wagner

Jason Hartley (co-creator and author of The Advanced Genius Theory) and I have a lot in common: he’s from the South, he was an English major, and I’ve eaten many times at the Pizza Hut in Columbia, S.C., where Hartley’s “advancement theory” came into being. Perhaps these coincidental biographical similarities explain why I find his [...]

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ART: Jess Smart Smiley: An Advocate of True Art

Jul 01, 2010 1 Comment by Chase Larson

It was very dark one night in a local, dimly-lit neighborhood. The only real light came from the numberless clusters of stars above and the inconspicuous crescent moon peeking above the mountain’s ridge. A man was walking around soaking it in, tucking his shoulder-length hair behind his ears while celestial light glinted off his glasses, [...]

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