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Today's column is on how I'm at an awkward age for holidays. Check it out, yo.

Today's column is online here. Be sure to check it out if you want to learn a new word. OR check it out if you don't want to learn a new word. The options are endless. Or at least two.

Here's today's column on text-to-win contests.

A little preview to whet the appetite:

It was a “Textclusive.”

All you gotta do is text “Taylor” for a chance to win a new Toyota Camry, tickets to the show and to — OMG! — meet Taylor Swift!

Yeah, no thanks.

It’s not that I’m hating on Taylor Swift (or Camrys), it’s just that everybody wants my cell phone number these days. It’s a constant bombardment: “Text to Win!” “Text for More Information!” “Text for News Updates!” “Text for the Latest Scores!” “Text your Requests!”

Get it all here.

That's him in the back on the left. He's wearing white coat and a black hat. No, really.

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

By popular request, I'll be posting at least once a week to give you my column link.

Here's last Friday's column on how you can pay atheists to come care for your pets after the Rapture.

I know it is only a theory of how things can be. But so is gravity. So while we move onward from the misinformation of a trillion dollar ongoing war we're attempting to clean up, let us forge forward with a renewed sense of what can be accomplished through a comprehensive healthcare reform that can benefit millions of Americans overall compared to truly wasteful spending that we have inherited.

Oh, and as a superlative bonus: there was a commercial I saw on my local telecast that portrayed a neurosurgeon erroneously dismembering the greater points the proposed legislation. I only wish he had his facts straight and that his words held a semblance of a coherent argument and not flippant or specious wordings meant to mislead the greater public. Good night and good luck.

Yes, that is the precise title of the post. And it is lent from the synonymous name of the popular (at least in my mind) program on PBS. The reason I bring it to the forefront is closely cousined to all popular memes and internet vagaries: quasi-obscure curiosity.

And so I bring you the a countdown of the 10 most lucrative junkyard/garage/attic finds the show has aired. Starting at #10:



I find these types of discoveries enjoyable on an array of levels.

Read my column from this morning's paper about online banking and $23,148,855,308,184,500 credit card charges.