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Vicki McClure Davidson | February 6, 2012

If you watched yesterday’s Super Bowl, then this spot-on cartoon from Daily Scoff should resonate:   I’ve just never bought into polar bears being frantic to drink an icy cold Coca-cola. And so, unsurprisingly, they were among my (yawn) least favorite Super Bowl ads. Along with the macabre Doritos ad with the dog and the [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | February 1, 2012

  Shocking breaking news: Don Cornelius, the creator and host of the wildly successful, long-running music/dance show “Soul Train,” was found dead early this morning in his Encino, California home. The LA County coroner has ruled that his death — caused by a reported gunshot wound to the head — was a suicide. Cornelius was [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 27, 2012

  The antipiracy legislation of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) was the most closely followed news topic last week among Americans ages 18 to 29, per a newly released Pew Research Center poll. The controversial, vaguely written, power-grabbing congressional bills have been halted in their tracks, following a titanic outcry [...]

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