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As a grown adult, for 1,200 bucks a month, you can willingly pay to live in a bunk bed unit with multiple other people in your room where you are provided with ramen noodles, not allowed to have guests over, must be in bed by 10:00 PM at night, and, basically, give up your privacy. Oh yeah, also the founder of this novel idea out of San Francisco based it off of communism. Why would anybody do this? Well, the mainly 20-somethings who choose to do so in the Golden Gate City say they have no other choice because of...

While Mister Focker talks about his 'communal commode' [and failing to follow his own rule], he looks quite sane when compared with this hairbrained notion: The DNC's communal campaign computer system. Yep, both Hellery and Bernie Sanders share the same campaign database -- communism on parade in the name of efficiency. There was supposed to be a firewall that separated them, but you know how communal projects work out -- you end up taking a shower and look over to see some other guy sitting on the pot. The firewall had a weakness. Bernie Sanders stated that he informed the...

Most religious traditions embrace elements of monasticism, the practice of renouncing worldly pursuits to devote one's life to spiritual concerns. In a modern spin on that concept, a growing number of progressive Christians are leaving behind the materialism of Western culture to live communally and serve the poor in some of the nation's most blighted areas. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, a 25-year-old divinity student at Duke University, is one of the leaders of this movement, dubbed "new monasticism." The name comes from a book titled "Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World," written by Wilson-Hartgrove's father-in-law, Jonathan Wilson, a professor of theology and...