This site is so much better than Stuff White People Like. Not Hating Just Saying is a pretty simple concept—a bunch of things that suck, and a description of in what way they suck.

Highlight: Diet Dr Pepper.

Highlight #2: Hipsters. Now, this is really just another Stuff White People Like, but I found it funny and [...]

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Someone in my class at the journalism school asked if it would be okay to have her boyfriend give her answers for the take home exam. No, really. And when she was told that no, it wouldn’t be okay to have someone else do her work for her, she was seriously upset about it. The [...]

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Doing something is better than nothing.

Not sure whether it’s better to replace your gas-guzzler with a hybrid or a high-mileage hatchback? The important thing is not which one you choose, but just that you choose one, now.

It’s not clear what the best way to deal with the myriad of problems chronicled in Al Gore’s powerpoint [...]

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Have you ever taken a horrible stereotype, applied it, and been shamed into realizing the error of your ways? Well let’s just say that doesn’t happen in this clip:The saddest part is how for a brief moment it actually appears that the butt of the joke (the owner of the gas station) appreciates the irony—she [...]

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Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli suddenly stepped down today.Analysts said Nardelli’s surprise resignation was almost certainly due to the fact that he had become a lightning rod for critics of hefty corporate executive pay. They said the Home Depot board was under great pressure to make a change.

At a disastrous Home Depot annual meeting last [...]

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This song and video have certainly made the rounds online, but I rediscovered it recently and the idea that anyone out there hasn’t already seen it keeps me up at night. So, for my own peace of mine, I give you… Tunak Tunak Tun.
The song alone is something special, but the accompanying dance/video are extraordinary. [...]

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Sorry to keep writing about sports, but sometimes I can’t help myself.

Cory Lidle, the Yankees pitcher who died when a small plane he was piloting crashed into a Manhattan building last week, was buried yesterday.As the 45-minute outdoor service in Covina, Calif., began, three planes similar to the one Lidle owned flew over the crowd [...]

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A man wants to ban Fahrenheit 451, a book about the travesty that is banning books, during banned books week. And he hasn’t read it.Alton Verm, of Conroe, objects to the language and content in the book. His 15-year-old daughter Diana, a CCHS sophomore, came to him Sept. 21 with her reservations about reading the [...]

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