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Mortgaging the Future: Where the Pawlenty Budget Proposal Goes Off the Rails

by Rich Goldsmith
posted on Jan. 28, 2009 - 1:41am

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Star Wars, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sci-Fi

by Kate Iverson
posted on Jun. 23, 2008 - 7:18pm

Growing up, my world was a whirlwind of arts, culture, and strangely enough, Sci-Fi. My Dad was my hero, a man of constant humor, kindness, and creative influence, who also just so happened to be a world-class science fiction and fantasy nerd. One of the first movies I can remember him taking me to as a child was a matinée of Hercules in New York at the Riverview Theater, starring a pre-Terminator/governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Shades of Doctor Who, Robbie the Robot, and of course, Star Wars

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