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Tracking the D'bury Universe
We won't post new stories on this page every day, but whenever we do put something up you have our word: It will be about the strip. Guaranteed.
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Untier Of Knots
What is the meaning of Pope Francis?
You don't have to be a believer to recognize a moment of grace...
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NYC's Plan For Free, Citywide Wi-Fi
Private companies are paying the city $500 million to transform old pay phones into high-speec Internet hotspots...
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Harper Lee Lawyer Offers More Details On Discovery Of New Book
One morning late last summer, Tonja B. Carter was doing some legal work for her prized client, Harper Lee, when she found herself thumbing through an old manuscript...
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SC State To Hold Commemorative Orangeburg Massacre Events
On February 8, 1968, after thgree nights of escalating racial tension...three students were killed and 28 others injured when S.C. Highway Patrolmen opened fire on a crowd of unarmed protesters...
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The Trip Treatment
Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results...
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Being Black In 1950s America
Gordon Parks hadn't been to his hometown, Fort Scott, Kansas, in more than 20 years when he returned there in 1950 as a photojournalist on assigment for Life magazine...
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A Comics Scholar Draws A New One Of His Own
Scott McCloud's new graphic novel is The Sculptor...
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A Gorgeous Look At Some Of The Oldest Trees On Earth
Beth Moon's father made an impression on her when he told stories about his childhood learning the names of birds, trees, and flowers...
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The Mormon Church's Gay Rights Charade
Here’s a simple algebra equation to describe what it’s like to grow up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Take the year, subtract 20, and that’s the year it really is inside the Mormon gerontocracy...
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A Note To My Readers
I want to let you know I've decided to stop blogging in the near future...