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Vanity Thy Name is Haircut

I don’t know how it is with women, but you will never learn more about a guy’s self-image then sending him to Supercuts to get a haircut. Supercuts, and various other like stylist chains, pray on men’s vanity worse than Bowflex commercials. They create an atmosphere where every fellow gets 15 minutes of [...]

Who Doesn’t Love the Fall?

The unofficial marker of autumn is upon us with the start of the next season of Monday Night Football (the Monday after Labor Day), the start of a new semester of classes, and another birthday.   Of course, fall is also the start of a new television season, after enduring so much new summer filler they [...]

Beer Cures Leukemia

I attended a charity event to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for cancer research tonight. The event, hosted at Boston Beer Works on Canal Street in downtown Boston, was a beer sampling of Beer Works’ custom brews. The night started with a cocktail hour and a compelling speech from a [...]

The Times, They Are A-Changin’

The annual Beloit College Mindset List is something I look forward to…well…annually. If you’re not familiar with the list, it’s a compilation of the social and historical events and mores that will and won’t have shaped the development of this year’s college freshman. In short, it’s a reality check on the experiences that [...]

The World Keeps Beating Us Down (Think Positive)

I am not a negative thinker.
Just repeating the affirmation to yourself may improve your day to day outlook. In fact, so-called stress experts offer that the best recipe for negative thinking is…thinking positive! The experts estimate that upwards of 80% of our daily thoughts are downbeat and all that negative thinking is straining [...]

Scrabulous, Threat To the Free World

The internet has really done it this time. It’s not enough that the ‘net has gone and made all this music free for us to steal. Now, it has done the unthinkable: it has created free-ware versions of classic board games that just anyone can go and play without a paying a [...]