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Bush's prime-time deception
By Emile Hallez
My new favorite game show is NBC’s primetime Deal or No Deal. In this money-lassoing extravaganza, contestants play slim odds of winning $1 million while comedian Howie Mandel and his army of polished human props drag out several minutes of material into an hour. There is little strategy involved, save rubbing Mandel’s barren scalp for good luck. Both contestant and audience applaud mindlessly in acknowledgement of the game’s dull progress.

We haven't come all that far, baby
By Zoë Williams
A friend’s recent pregnancy scare led me to stand at the local pharmacy to retrieve a home pregnancy test thanking the universe Planned Parenthood still exists. As I stepped up to the cash register, I was faced with a wall of fashion magazines and celebrity gossip. My eyes were privy to who was hot, who lost more than 25 pounds and what female celebrity was the heartbreaker this season. I read about a television show in which the female star is openly called ugly.

Gun control genesis lies in racism
By Erik Wiesner
A lot of arguments get tossed around in the gun control debate, and I’m sure you’ve heard most of them before. However, that doesn’t mean the public discourse on guns involves all the facts. Rarely mentioned is the origin of U.S. gun control. Just as drugs were originally only illegal for certain immigrant and minority groups, gun control comes from laws designed to maintain white dominance and slavery.

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