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Author Damon Young says that "Humor is just a part of how I see things." Young is the winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

“The exhaustion of knowledge or experience can be this huge bummer of a burden where nothing surprises you or makes you curious ever again.” “For lack of a better term, it felt familial, which is something, for all their ambitions, most restaurants can’t achieve. It felt closer to someone’s home than a meal out. And that doesn’t just come from the space, but it also comes up from the plates and smacks you on the tongue or in the nose or both.”    There’s a lot to miss about th...

Another year, another Black History Month coming to a close. For the past 28 days, The Root has been celebrating Black Joy and how that looks—whether it’s through art, family, food or music. Panama Jackson, senior editor of Very Smart Brothas, has brought us all the joy through the most iconic and Blackest album covers of our time. Granted, there are probably more than 28 out there, but it would be hard to top this series in all of its Blackness. A slew of my personal favorites made this ...

January 18, 2021 By Robert MARIANI The balance of two opposing forces—military-industrial surveillance capitalism and progressive cultural hegemony—once formed an equilibrium that gave the average Joe some options in life. That equilibrium was on its way out for a while, but it collapsed with the Capitol riots. The progressive camp has swallowed up its rival—or maybe the other way around. Anyway, who cares. Does the supposed direction of this absorption tell us much besides the team affil...

>> she was larger than her music. cant say that about many performances. the music speaks for itself. she was larger than her music. she was a great american, very smart. she stood up for lots of things. but the way she sang and the way she moved people, you didnt need to use her last name. all you had to say was aretha, you knew who she was. she was quirky. she wouldnt fly. >> right. >> she wouldnt stay in a building over eight floors. in other words -- when we booked her on cnn, our studio was...

Political campaign against donald trump. 17 republicans tried it in 2016, one very famous, very powerful democrat tried it in 2016, didnt work. al franken, funny. he knows show biz, very smart. he could get trump off his game a little bit, but he too will be almost 70 by the time. >> young in comparison to the others. round table staying with us. up next, these three will tell me something i dont know. thats not hard at all. youre watching, "hardball."

Diplomats. jim? >> thats one of the incidents that they mentioned as they carried out these sanctions. thank you very much. coming up, more on the breaking news. donald trump praising vladamir putin saying he always knew putin was "very smart." but whats behind putins decision to put off retaliation for election related sanctions? . ooh boy. but, youve got hum. so you can set this. and if she drives like this, you can tell her to drive more like this. because youll get this. you can even set b...

>> what is the bot. >> automated twitter handles. >> those hash tag thing in >> no. >> i dont even know how to write one. >> you get it, you get automatic followers. >> they will scan the twitter, they will find key words in your bio that would make you interesting or relevant to their work. >> theres steves followers. they are not people who are actually interested in what he has to say. steves followers are consumers and pitching products. >> suppliers of like hair supply products. >> like the...

Confrontation. that wont be the case with ryan and biden. >> can i add? theres a couple of key points, the criticism on whether ryan is ready on day one is going to be articulated very hard and fast by other side and independent people. hes 42 years old, looks younger, doesnt have foreign policy experience. in the ways you would expect, thats going to come up as an issue, ready on day one and foreign policy be part of any part of the debate. the other issue whether ryan can come across as a happ...

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