So Your Dentist Is In the Ku Klux Klan?
Plus, celebrity flameouts -- Nate Bargatze, Bill Burr, Kevin Hart, Mayweather, Dustin Poirier fer chrissakes -- seems to suggest sensation addicts make bad decisions for stupid reasons. Or do they?
Look What You Made Me Do
From the frontlines to the backline: All Eugene S. Robinson, All the time
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