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        The glorious agony of defeat: The Red Sox took it away, so I turned to the Devil Rays...
       
      
        By Max Linsky
      
      
      When I first got to Florida on a balmy Saturday back in October of 2004, my lone duffel bag and I checked into a dingy efficiency motel by the Tampa airport. I&#39;d left my girlfriend on the West Coast and knew exactly one person in the state. Monday morning I went to my first day of work in my one decent pair of pants, spent eight hours pretending to know what the hell I was doing, then headed back to
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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The A/C Ph.D.</title>
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        A talk with USF's Ray Arsenault, aka the Air Conditioning Man...
       
      
        By Max Linsky
      
      
      Ray Arsenault, an historian and professor at USF St. Petersburg, is famous for two nicknames: He&#39;s &quot;Dad&quot; to former CL copy editor Anne Arsenault, and he&#39;s the &quot;Air Conditioning Man&quot; to his colleagues. In a 1984 issue of The Journal of Southern History, Arsenault published &quot;The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern Culture,&quot; the first critical history of the machine&#39;s impact in the South. Ever since, journalists from around the country have called around this
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Mo&amp;#39; money, mo&amp;#39; problems</title>
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        A look at the numbers...
       
      
        By Max Linsky
      
      
      Pages in the federal tax code in 1913: 400 Pages in the federal tax code today: 67,204 Number of tax refunds handed out by the IRS in 2006: 61.66 million Amount in tax refunds paid out by the IRS in 2006: $144.513 billion Average refund: $2,344 Amount Ford Motors CEO Alan Mulally was paid for his first four months on the job: $28 million His hourly wage, assuming a 40-hour workweek: $43,750 Signing bonus given to Mulally: $7.5 million Relocation
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Sleep on it</title>
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        A look at the numbers...
       
      
        By Max Linsky
      
      
      Percent of houses that will be built by 2015 allowing couples to sleep in separate bedrooms: 60 Percent of women who say they get only a few good nights of sleep a week: 60 Percent of stay-at-home moms who rarely get a good night's sleep: 74 Price of the most expensive bed sold in the U.S: $49,500 Combined wealth of the world's two richest people, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet: $108 billion Net worth of Star Wars creator George Lucas:
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Money talks</title>
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        A look at the numbers...
       
      
        By Max Linsky
      
      
      Percent of the men's purse Wimbledon Champion Billy Jean King collected in 1968: 37.5 Percent of the men's purse the 2007 female champ will collect: 100 Percent of high school seniors who read at or above a "basic" level in 1992: 80 Percent of high school seniors who read at or above a "basic" level today: 72 Age of a boy trapped in the woods who used a safety pin to foil a Bradenton man's plan to kidnap him: 13
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The seat of heat</title>
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        COMEDY...
       
      
        By Max Linsky
      
      
      You know him, you love him, you think he's your guy. Problem is, so does everybody else. Jon Stewart, stalwart host of The Daily Show and network news execs' nightmare, appears for two shows this Saturday night, though chances are he'll sell out (the shows, not his integrity). Don't worry if you're not lucky enough to score a ticket -- scaling the Tampa Bay Performing Art Center's walls and watching from the ceiling is always an option. But if you're
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    <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>How to be alone on Christmas</title>
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        A guide for the unloved among us...
       
      
        By Max Linsky
      
      
      I will be alone on Dec. 25. Technically, I'll be alone starting Dec. 22, when my girlfriend leaves to be with her family, but for our purposes here, the 25th is the key. I'll be flying solo amongst the carolers and sappy TV movies and the empty space for presents in my living room, underneath the empty space for a tree, which I would've bought if anyone else were going to be with me. Which they aren't. I am not,
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        Comedy...
       
      
        By Max Linsky
      
      
      Three days before the one-year anniversary of Richard Pryor's death, his successor as The Greatest Living Stand-Up Comic is in town for one night only. George Carlin, who made those seven little words famous, hasn't toned down or slowed down his act a bit. Now 69, the first-ever guest host of SNL is still kicking up dirt, making us laugh and making us think with that iconic gravelly voice. Not enough? Remember -- this is the guy who played Rufus
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    <pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Where other media feared to go</title>
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        Like the imprisonment of Josh Wolf, the death of indie photojournalist Brad Will has roused activists around the world...
       
      
        By Max Linsky
      
      
      Brad Will spent his life fighting power. Whether it was at the WTO protest in Seattle in 1999, the Republican National Convention in New York City in 2004, defending the environment or the rights of squatters, Will put his passion on the line. But Will didn't just organize or participate in protests, he documented them. Reporting for Indymedia, a worldwide network of independent journalists, Will traveled to protests and chronicled the causes he believed in. On Oct. 27, while filming
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        Two congregations, two stadiums. Donations welcome....
       
      
        By Max Linsky
      
      
      The sanctuary at Without Walls International Church is large enough that if you sit directly in the middle of it, the space actually does feel wall-less. The room fits 5,000 people, and from that center seat, just behind the two cameramen beaming images to the massive screens on either side of the stage, it's easy to feel like you're in a stadium. A stadium with incredibly powerful air conditioning. Perhaps they keep it cool at Without Walls to make sure
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The Scarlet Letter, 2006</title>
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        Think getting punished for adultery went out with Hester Prynne?<br>Not in Florida....
       
      
        By Max Linsky
      
      
      [image-1]On Tuesday, Sept. 5, Marty King pulled around back of a nondescript strip mall in Bradenton and parked his silver Hyundai next to the Department of Corrections office. Wearing a striped button-down shirt and sporting a new haircut, King was headed for a meeting with his probation officer. A faded picture of Jeb Bush hung on one wall of the cramped waiting room; a printout tacked on another reminded folks that October is "Domestic Violence Awareness Month." King, 38, sat
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Bay to Bay</title>
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        After 16 months of exploring the Bay area, he's headed for a new orbit....
       
      
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      I'm no good with goodbyes. I've spent the past two weeks trying to figure out what I should do for this last column. I could go with the "By the time you read this, I'll be halfway across the country" angle, but that doesn't feel right. I'm writing this from my porch, where I've written every other column for the last year and a half. Not a sock has been packed. I've got dirty dishes in the sink, a dozen
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Lust List 2006</title>
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        By Scott Harrell
      
      
      Ah, Valentine&#39;s Day. If you&#39;ve got someone, February the 14th is either a marvelous opportunity to express the depths of your affection, or just another foregone commitment to spend time and money in the name of not sleeping out in the living room. If you&#39;ve got no one, it&#39;s either a depressing reminder of your inability to find that perfect partner, or a reinforcement of your status as a loner, Dottie, a rebel. It&#39;s all in the eye of the
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Lapping It Up</title>
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        A rained-out afternoon morphs into a challenge for the ages....
       
      
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      The retention pond next to the Planet parking lot, dry since the last big rainfall in August, had done its job. The thing was almost full, probably three feet deep with leaves, street run-off and other unspeakable muck. Even for standing water, the pond was particularly ... what's the word? ... uninviting. "What would it take to get you in there?" Anthony asked me, looking over the sludge. This sort of are-you-that-stupid? challenge is always tantalizing. But when one comes
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The Other Super Bowl</title>
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        Will we be cereal monogamists or cereal killers? Let the battle begin....
       
      
        By Max Linsky
      
      
      Welcome, welcome, welcome, one and all, tall and small, to the finest show on Earth, the fight that puts the 'fast' in breakfast. That's right, ladies and germs, it's the first ever Baaatle of the Breaaaakfasts in a Booooowl! In this corner, serving handmade granola and tasty pastries, coming all the way from 230 Fourth St. N., it's ... the 4th Street Granola Bar! And in this corner, the new kid on the 600 block, dishing up Trix and Lucky
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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