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In my defense, though, the team didn’t play well in spring training, they had traded away not one but two key pitchers, and they opened the season with an ugly 11-6 loss to the Cardinals.

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Firstly, the ad-hominem attack against hourly food-service workers as “burger-flippers” carries a range of biased assumptions: that they are lowly....
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During all of that time, time spent up to my eyeballs in college rivalry melodrama, I didn’t think that much about what it meant to be a real Hoosier.

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Since I lived out of town, however, on an isolated bit of property tucked alongside a large, old-growth grove, no one particularly cared that I’d let things go.

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Her bobbed haircut exposes more of her shoulders than any self-respecting woman in pre-Prohibition America would stand for, covered only by small spaghetti straps leading to a swimsuit?

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Two nights after Steve Bartman’s colossal goof had made it somewhat clear that the baseball gods hated their underdogs, I watched Jeter and his Yankees remove all doubt in 11 innings against the hapless Red Sox.

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When the Reds pulled out a comeback, walk-off victory, she would smile and maybe offer a mellow “hooray.”  When they blew a save, she would wave her hands toward the radio, toss out a low-keyed “bah!”

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Despite seeing three World Series champions play in the flesh… Despite watching a rookie Johnny Bench perform at Crosley Field…

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For the next five or six years Bench hovered over my head—his gaze staring toward the outfield, his fingers slowly unclutching his bat, his lead step toed in the direction of first base.

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My late grandmother's devotion to the Reds rivaled every other fan in baseballdom.

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They support this argument by citing that many people living on the current minimum wage must file for government support and face terrible burdens in the event of illness in many cases along with expensive mechanical breakdowns.

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Wheeler proudly teaches English to a horde of bright and lovably obnoxious high school seniors in a small college town

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This was one of those C-Band dishes, the kind that looked like giant, upside-down umbrellas mounted on three-inch steel pipes.

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#MeaningfulRelationshipsInteracting #BobbedHaircutExposes

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Hunkered in the back corner sat a gleaming, 80-gallon mash tun.

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After a pair of good weeks finishing “in the money” against a reduced field, Team Zen had reemerged from hibernation and the Make Trivia Great Again crew was back to full force.

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And so it was that Sean Connery—thanks to a good, old-fashioned pissing contest with his producer—threw away the chance to play an emotionally devastated James Bond as he looks upon the face of his dead wife.

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In short: Connery’s Bond enjoyed killing people.

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As he argues, “Using 1968 as our benchmark for the minimum wage implies that low-wage Americans today should be making just as much as low-wage Americans were making 44 years ago.

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That scene might have changed everything I think about Connery’s Bond.

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