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The Joylessness of Cooking
by Mark Tapson
Call it the American Idolization of food television. Cooking competition shows a là the music industry’s mega-hyped,…
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Kardashian Family Values: For Me but Not for Thee
It is a strange phenomenon of our current culture that one of the highest virtues is nonjudgmentalism. That is to…
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Why Women Escape to Downton Abbey
There is a very strange phenomenon that has taken root among today’s educated women: we love garbage television. The Real…
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My Guilty Pleasure: The Jersey Shore
I have to start by admitting that I don’t watch this show much anymore (it’s true), but that hasn’t always…
Pop Culture Guilty Pleasures, Television
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My Guilty Pleasure: The Real Housewives
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by Megan Basham
Xfinity
You have to wonder—does your guilty pleasure really warrant much guilt when everyone…
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The Soup–A Smorgasbord of Guilty Pleasures
Pop culture today is bursting with so many guilty pleasure possibilities that it’s impossible to indulge in as many as…
Pop Culture Guilty Pleasures, Television
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The Daily Pop Culture Scene
Salon
Three Cheers for Our Talented Child Actors–Salon
The rise of the quality child actor .…
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The Daily Pop Culture Scene
by Emily Esfahani Smith
Where pop culture meets the virtues . . .
Credit: WSJ
One ‘Magic Room’ That Links…
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THE DAILY SCENE
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Honey Boo Boo: A Fabulous Cultural Ambassador for America?–The Atlantic
The much-maligned TLC series that recently…
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Japanese Octogenarian Becomes Oldest Man to Summit Mount Everest–ABC News
The Japanese climber, accompanied by his…
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Garcia’s Feud with Tiger Woods Escalates–Yahoo! Sports
Attending an awards dinner for the…
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Dads are increasingly absent and marriages are in crisis, the rise of the male baby carrier is a manly symbol. acculturated.com/2013/05/24/bab… #tcot
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When asked if he will have Tiger over for dinner, Sergio Garcia said “We will serve fried chicken.” acculturated.com/daily-scene/ga…
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Honey Boo Boo is now the cultural ambassador for America ===> acculturated.com/daily-scene/ho… #tcot
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"What’s the Big Deal with Arrested Development?" acculturated.com/2013/05/23/wha… via @Acculturated
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