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A Word on Marriage

I didn’t change my facebook profile picture to a pink equal sign.  Don’t get me wrong I support empty gestures as much as the next guy; and there’s nothing like a picture of Ernie and Burt superimposed over parallel lines [more]

April 3, 2013 By: Ed Furman, Words
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Maybe We’re All Just Awful

I know a lot of good people, I’ll even say I consider myself one.  Leave me alone with your purse and the contents will remain undisturbed, and I won’t spread a bunch of rumors about you to spice up a [more]

March 20, 2013 By: Ed Furman, Words
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Day of The Goat

     I’ve been enjoying the latest Internet trend of the “goat” versions of songs.  (For those that haven’t seen them, a snippet of a pop song or even an operatic piece is embellished with a clip of a screaming goat [more]

March 6, 2013 By: Ed Furman, Words
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Religious Quality Control

Pope Benedict stunned the world with the announcement of his retirement. I say good for him. That leads me to think he considers his post more of an actual job than a symbolic position. (It’s odd to me that he [more]

February 12, 2013 By: Ed Furman, Comedy, Words
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Seeing Clearly in The Dark

That was a great Super Bowl. There were plenty of back-stories, brother vs. brother, murderer vs. homophobe, lovely city by the bay vs. shit-hole. But the one that captured my attention was the blackout that changed the momentum of the [more]

February 5, 2013 By: Ed Furman, Comedy, Words
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Is A Little Homophobia Ok For The Secretary Of Defense?

President Obama’s nomination for Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, has been drawing a lot of criticism. That’s not surprising, Democrats have a case against him because he’s a Republican and Republicans are bound to look down on him because Obama [more]

January 29, 2013 By: Ed Furman, Comedy, Words
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The Questions of Manti Te’o

The recent revelations in the Manti Te’o debacle have raised a lot of questions.  1) Is this poor young man the victim of an elaborate hoax or was he in on it to gain publicity? 2) Why did he wait [more]

January 17, 2013 By: Ed Furman, Comedy, Words
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The NRA – Now Celebrating 25 Days Massacre-Free.

In the wake of the recent tragedy and amid new calls for stricter gun control, the NRA emerged last week with a statement calling for an increase in armed survelance in every school. The “good guy with a gun” campaign [more]

January 10, 2013 By: Ed Furman, Words