by Tara Overzat “Years later she considered herself an authority on propaganda, based on her university experience,” wrote Jennifer Burns in her well-researched Ayn Rand biog [...]
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By Tara Overzat I sincerely wish NBC had had more gumption and decided against interviewing Charlie Sheen, seemingly legitimizing ABC and CNN’s Piers Morgan to follow w [...]
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By Tara Overzat Calvin & Hobbes, oh yeah In a few short hours, we’ll be gathered around our friends and families sharing our “New Year’s Resolutions.&# [...]
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By Tara Overzat I moved to South Florida in 1991. Being an eight-year-old I missed any chance of hearing that Rick Sanchez hit and paralyzed a man, Jeffrey Smuzinick, and fl [...]
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By Tara Overzat On Good Morning America the other morning, a guest was on lamenting that young girls don’t read Nancy Drew novels anymore (Is anyone really shocked? The books were antiquated when I was a child, and that was before the internet sped everything up tenfold.). She felt that little girls looked up to [...]
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By Tara Overzat It seems like so many famous people are dying- entertainers, athletes, businessmen. On top of that we all have dealt with family or friends who are ill or have passed. Why does it feel like so many people we know are suffering? Blame it on facebook. Myspace. Twitter.
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Suspension is the art of hanging one’s body off the ground, using hooks embedded into the skin. The practice seems to have started with Native American tribes, some of which continue to do this today as part of the “Vision Quest” or othert rituals. Amber Sutton is a modern day suspensionist and shares the story [...]
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By Tara Overzat Michael Jackson died on my birthday. I received a text message from a friend at 6:09pm. TMZ was reporting the death well before any of the other news outlets. Everyone was shocked and saddened. I feel like Jackson was robbed of his last shot, his last chance
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By Tara Overzat I struggle to live in the “now.” As kids, this was so easy. Why is it so hard as adults? Maybe becuase we can’t shake the shackles of our memories, both good and bad. We want to
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By Tara Overzat Since when did we only vote for politicians who say they don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t have sex, don’t curse, and don’t poo in public?
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By Tara Overzat Desperate times, desperate measures. Young, pretty girls trapped in a Communist country, where college grads are hugely disproportionate to available jobs, where the middle class is growing but hundreds of millions of peasants still work the soil, and where unattractive, unsuccessful foreign men go to escape,
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By Tara Overzat It’s a cry of astonishment, an insult, and it sometimes ends in tears when someone “unfriends” or “defriends” you on Facebook. In the simplest of circumstances, it is just a pal from 5th grade who wants to
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By Tara Overzat Why are politicians involved in gay marriage? Why is government involved in marriage at all? “For the kids.” Some people say being raised by both a mother and a father in the same household is best for children. If government wants to incentivize one woman and one man
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By Tara Overzat I believe in capitalism. With any science or philosophy, the point is to question and prod until the best answer is found and to stick with that answer until an even better one is discovered. People accuse me of saying
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