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‘Midlands’ gate magnified
I underestimated a bad idea whose time I feared was nigh. It’s worse than I knew. But dissent is more fierce than I fancied — and maybe committed enough to triumph.
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Pimping the VA
It’s a decision that will live in infamy — counterintuitive, scandalous, batshit crazy. After what U.S. Sen.
Stop Calling Me Surly
Of poultry and polarization
On April 14, 2002, my gay brother died surrounded by his partner, John, my mother, sister and me. None of us will forget the outpouring of love and support from his extended family of friends.
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Anatomy of a mass murderer
Nowhere is the boundary between tragedy and comedy as blurry as the blogosphere. Under the headline “Murderous Asshole Who Killed Those People Has Small Penis,” J.
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A many-splendored market
It had been a bleak week. Addiction, secrets and lies had ended a friendship. For the second time this month, an obituary memorialized a friend of my parents.
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Deadline to save your life
We can never be certain that something we publish will save a life. But it’s nice to think it might — and noble to try. My latest effort profiled a preventable tragedy.
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Bedecked with sudden debt
If you think hard times are knocking at your door, consider the mega-project neighbors and I are pondering to maintain our old Kentucky home — the Woodmont Condominiums off Poplar Level Road.
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Evolution of a more perfect union
In the biggest frickin’ deal of his vice presidency, Joe Biden became the highest-ranking U.S.
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A divinely ‘decadent and depraved’ Kentucky Derby
We interrupt this disturbing drip of doom to predict that Saturday’s Kentucky Derby will again be decadent and depraved. That’s how Hunter S.
