Are You Ready for the Brood? (Video)

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They’re loud, they’re proud, and they’re seventeen years in the making.

“Marriage as a tradition does not belong to *them* – it belongs to an *us* that includes me. “

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This comment was by Tobias, on the post Same-Sex Marriage is Not Enough.

The Country You Are Calling Holland Isn’t Actually Holland (Video)

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The difference between Holland, The Netherlands, what is considered “Dutch”, and more.

“If the football program is producing boys like these, it should be shut down right now because it’s creating monsters.”

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Should the Steubenville football program and other programs whose students commit sexual assault be shut down?

Joe Biden and Paul Ryan Outline Differences on Abortion in VP Debate

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The Vice President and Congressman talked about fatherhood, life, and abortion in the debate in Danville, Kentucky.

Levon Helm (1940-2012): “The sun’s gonna shine/ Through the shadows/ When I go away”

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Legendary R&R drummer and singer Levon Helm is gone. Jesse Kornbluth reflects on the man behind The Band.

Ten things I've learned from being broken up with at the end of high school

Adolescence is generally solipsistic and hyperbolic. Being broken up with, then, feels like the worst thing in the world, and everybody cares about it. It’s not, and they don’t. I know of people who dated in high school, got married, and are living happily ever after. Had I done so, I would have forfeited over [...]