Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.
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Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.
The 21st century’s obstacles for young men—as seen in deaths of despair and lagging employment—have been amply publicized both by credible journalists and by charlatans such as Fuentes.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
27 Mar. 2026
Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans.
But the word thug as a term for rogues and thieves lived on in English.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
Streetwise rogues in the mould of an enigmatic leader… there are certainly parallels between Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid and Tommy Shelby’s Peaky Blinders.
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