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Mike Rowe and the Need to Bring Back Shop Class
- Culture, Economics, Education, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 21, 2025
Have you ever heard of paying someone to be your friend? If not, prepare yourself, for renting a friend or hiring a person to “snuggle with” is a rising new business. According to The Atlantic, “Samantha Hess and Becky Rodrigues are paid to hug people. Cuddlers for hire, they will hold clients close, in a
READ MOREAmy Fabbrini and Eric Ziegler of Redmond, Oregon, did something this Christmas that many parents take for granted: they celebrated it with their child. The couple’s 10-month-old son Hunter had been in foster care almost since the day he was born. But last week, The Oregonian reports, a judge declared that the state had not
READ MORE“THANK YOU to our patrons. We look forward to a GREAT 2017” read the chalked sidewalk sign outside a small New England natural foods store near my home. Do you see a hidden message in this sign? Some thought the word “GREAT” was a code word of support for Trump and began to boycott this
READ MORE“Cancel culture” has become so pervasive that even former President Barack Obama has weighed in on the phenomenon, describing it as an overly judgmental approach to activism that does little to bring about change. For the uninitiated, here’s a quick primer on the phenomenon: An individual or an organization says, supports or promotes something that
READ MOREFormer CBS investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked a chilling question on Wednesday: Have U.S. intel agencies become “politically weaponized”? It sounds like an absurd question. It’s the type of speculation respectable journalists (and editors) normally would not raise at a cocktail party, let alone attach their byline to in an op-ed. But Attkisson, whose own
READ MOREIn September 2018, the Vatican signed an accord with the Chinese Communist Party in an effort to better the situation of Chinese Catholics and to normalize relations with China. A month later, the Chinese destroyed two Marian shrines, and prohibitted Catholics under the age of 18 from attending Mass. These incidents were only the beginning of
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