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For Children, Pets…and Husbands

Tiffany, for The Broken Telegraph — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:51:10 +0000

Photo Credit: Fox by Tiffany Lucus I was recently watching TV with my husband when I saw a commercial come on for a local carpet cleaning company. The commercial claimed that their carpet cleaning services were around for children, pets…and husbands. I found this peculiar so I asked my husband what they had meant by that. His reply was “honey, [...]

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Will You Help Fight Extreme Poverty?

Ian, for The Broken Telegraph — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:08:08 +0000

Photo Credit: Lauren Ebright | The Broken Telegraph by Ian Ebright My friend Eugene Cho and his wife have just launched a nonprofit to fight extreme global poverty. I know that almost sounds cliche these days, when global advocacy and charity at times seem to be more of a PR stunt, but this is different. One Days Wages is a grassroots organization [...]

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Our Government Tortured A Man They Knew Was Innocent

Ian, for The Broken Telegraph — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:36:30 +0000

by Ian Ebright I’ve had a hard time understanding why the American people have largely disconnected from our government’s torture policies and practices during the Bush Administration (some of which continue to this day under Obama, but that’s for another post). Perhaps it’s because it can be difficult to believe that leaders in our own country would explicitly order something [...]

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FILM REVIEW: ‘Paranormal Activity’ Goes Bump in the Night

Brian, for The Broken Telegraph — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:53:19 +0000

Photo Credit: Paramount Pictures by Brian Robinson Halloween usually leads moviegoers to ask each other the same question every year: “What’s the last really scary movie you saw?” This is the time of year we go looking for that elusive good time shock at the movies, and you can be sure Hollywood is ready to charge us [...]

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The Communists Are Here!

Brian, for The Broken Telegraph — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:40:49 +0000

Photo Credit: bagnewsnotes.typepad.com by Brian Robinson I don’t know if you noticed, but ‘The Russkies’ are back! Not the ones who have been trying their hands at a capitalistic society for the past twenty years, but those old fashioned hammer and sickle Communists! Didn’t you know that they have finally done what Lenin and Marx tasked them [...]

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