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• The Richwine Curve

  By Drew Gibson on May 13, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Alright my dewy-eyed, upwardly-mobile sons and daughters of the American Revolution—it’s high time to put away them crisp-cornered, technicolor Trapper Keepers you got atop your desks because we’re fitting to have a little IQ Test here that’ll determine whether you… Read More ›

• With Congress, It’s Never Too Early To Hand Out The Hardware

  By Drew Gibson on May 11, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  In retrospect, I feel as though the failure of Mitt Romney’s campaign could be fully captured in the “impromptu” football game he organized in Florida between members of his staff and the media about two weeks before election day.1 On… Read More ›

• Wall Street & The Language of Avarice

  By Drew Gibson on May 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  I don’t usually write about economics and financial markets and the reason for this is fairly simple: they intimidate the hell out of me. Mind you, I’m not talking about the institutions themselves or the individual players involved. I have… Read More ›

• America’s Star-Spangled Pastime

  By Drew Gibson on May 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A Sunday afternoon sky filled with sizzling fat drops rising up in the sausage smoke air—ballcapped kids half-running around in their kid-sized jerseys with their kid-sized gloves, floppy cargo shorts hanging down at mid-calf like the bottom of a pair… Read More ›

• To Commit or Not to Commit

  By Drew Gibson on May 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Freedom is a funny thing. In On Liberty, John Stuart Mill wrote, “The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others… Read More ›

• The Island of Misfit Presidents

  By Drew Gibson on April 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  As all 5 living US Presidents gathered together on the grounds of Dallas’ Southern Methodist University yesterday to celebrate the unveiling of The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, we were reminded that while history may be written by… Read More ›

• Overeducated & Unemployed

  By Drew Gibson on April 23, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  What was that line y’all fed us when we were but knee high and tow headed, sitting cross-legged in the assembly hall with casts on our arms and a song in our hearts? It was something to do with stars… Read More ›

• Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged: A Review of Tyler Perry’s Temptation

  By Drew Gibson on April 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest. – Nathaniel Hawthorne Fear begins in the not knowing—it is the last defense against understanding and the forebear of malicious assumption. There is a… Read More ›

• No More Bullets: Is This The End of The Line For Senate Gun Control?

  By Drew Gibson on April 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Despite the best efforts of Alanis Morissette and an entire generation of literarily-challenged youth who grew up believing that a dangling participle was a position in Kama Sutra involving a sex swing and large medicine ball, irony and coincidence are… Read More ›

• For The Boston Dead & Wounded

  By Drew Gibson on April 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Tonight, amidst the hectic sleuthing bustle congregated outside Brigham & Women’s Hospital and in spite of the semantic weariness of 24 hour media outlets debating the difference between crime and terror, my mind wanders towards two of Boston’s favorite sons—two… Read More ›

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