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Bud Light, Nike, and Searching for Common Sense5
“Stupid is as stupid does.” That saying, popularized by the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, has been around a good while. The expression means that a person’s intelligence can be judged by his actions. Someone can have a law degree from Yale, but if he drives his car at 35 mph on an acceleration ramp while
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‘Little Platoons’: The Family Will Win4
In my younger years, my mother bought a recording of the musical South Pacific. We kids played it so often that we learned most of the songs by heart. This past week, one of the songs, “Cockeyed Optimist,” as sung by Mitzi Gaynor, kept popping into my head. Here are a few lines: I have
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Fight or Flight? Some Thoughts for Easter5
The long Gospel readings in my church on Palm Sunday offer an unflattering portrait of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Judas sells out his master for 30 pieces of silver and leaves the Last Supper to put his betrayal into action. Later that evening in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus asks three of his followers
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Identifying the Liars and Living by Truth2
- Politics, Philosophy
- April 5, 2023
Among our elites—those in government, corporations, universities, the mainstream media, and the culture at large—are many who fall into three categories: the liars, the muddlers, and the dreamers of the day. The liars look straight into a camera or the eyes of an audience and boldly proclaim as truth what many listeners know to be
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