All posts by Sean Bugg
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The Goldilocks Solution
Around the time enormous SUVs began to inspire more than a twinge of guilt in many of their owners and gas prices caused a steady...
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Sharp Edges
My experience with the Mitsubishi Lancer goes way back. That is, if you're counting hours logged playing Gran Turismo on the PlayStation, where tricked out...
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Center of Attention
Consider the platypus. At the front, you have a duck's broad bill. At the rear, a beaver's hairy body. It's one of nature's most interesting...
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Much Ado About Nothing
Sandra Bernhard Twenty years ago when Sandra Bernhard debuted her one-woman show, Without You I'm Nothing, it was the start of a long-lived and highly...
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Past Personal
Being an early adopter in the world of blogging, Jim Barrett has learned a few lessons over time. ''I've learned not to write about family,...
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Electric Company
In a time of four-dollar-a-gallon gas, nothing primes the pump of personal satisfaction quite like driving a hybrid. You can sigh with self-important relief as...
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Pretty Ugly
It takes a certain kind of style to make ugly an asset, a style generally limited to small dogs and Subarus. Toyota's (supposedly) youth-targeted brand...
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Sleekly Styled
On the surface, the Mazda CX-9 crossover SUV -- a lower-profile SUV that combines the lower profile of a car with the larger capacity of...
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Ted Ahead
Ted Allen When it comes to cooking, it's not as hard as it looks. Take Ted Allen's pan-roasted salmon with tomato vinaigrette on a bed...
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Take It Easy
Maybe you've been too busy to plan ahead, or perhaps your beach plans fell through at the last minute. But whatever the cause, you find...
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Woof Worthy
You've likely never put the words ''canine'' and ''cuisine'' together in the same sentence. Dogs are finicky eaters, of course. One minute you're trying to...
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Paper Cuts
As technological advances go, the basic book has had a long and distinguished run. It spurred the exchange and preservation of knowledge among individuals and...
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Making Change
Whenever I'm faced with the task of providing biographical information about my life, I have a bit of a language problem. Namely, while I want...
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The Cute Patrol
Given the continuing backlash on gas-guzzling SUVs and the ever-growing pain at the pump, ''cute utes'' -- the smaller sport utility vehicles that offer expanded...
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On the Edge
Spend five minutes browsing a Williams-Sonoma catalog and you'll see the world is filled to the brim with kitchen gadgets built to perform highly specific...
