728 x 90



Latest Posts

Top Authors

  • Celebrating the New Masculinity of Millennial Dads

    Celebrating the New Masculinity of Millennial Dads0

    Go to any family-friendly place and you’ll see them. They are men in their late 20s to early 40s, pushing strollers, wearing backpacks full of baby supplies, and sometimes sporting baby carriers with infants tucked inside. Many of them have beards, wear baseball caps, and proudly flaunt their dad bods. They call their kids “buddy”

    READ MORE
  • Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Thanksgiving

    Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Thanksgiving0

    Okay. This is just sad. Nearly half of all Americans will ask guests to provide proof of vaccination status this Thanksgiving, Andrew Stanton of Newsweek reports. Others are asking the unvaxxed to provide proof of a negative COVID test, while half of American households will require guests to wear masks during the Thanksgiving festivities.  I

    READ MORE
  • Celebrating New Year’s with The Twilight Zone

    Celebrating New Year’s with The Twilight Zone0

    For those of us who love vintage television shows, New Year’s means The Twilight Zone Marathon, a tradition of over 30 years’ standing which airs on the cable Syfy Channel. A classic fantasy/science fiction TV series created by Rod Serling (who also authored many of the scripts), The Twilight Zone is an enduring piece of

    READ MORE
  • Cecil the Lion Named for Racist, Imperialist

    Cecil the Lion Named for Racist, Imperialist0

    • July 29, 2015

    If you know anything about the colonization of Africa in the 1800s, you might be wondering about where “Cecil the Lion” got his name. You see, there was an Englishman named Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) who left quite the mark on the African continent. You might know his name because of the foundation he left which

    READ MORE
  • CDC’s COVID Back-to-School Guidelines Sound Traumatizing

    CDC’s COVID Back-to-School Guidelines Sound Traumatizing0

    When schools reopen in the U.S. amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, they will be even more restrictive than they already were. Schools have long controlled students’ movements and imposed constraints on where they can go, when, and with whom. With virus concerns, those controls will increase in quantity and intensity. NPR recently proclaimed that “disruption

    READ MORE
  • CDC: A Quarter of Young Adults Contemplated Suicide During Pandemic

    CDC: A Quarter of Young Adults Contemplated Suicide During Pandemic0

    In economics, we talk a lot about unintended consequences. It’s easy to forget that societies are complex ecosystems. Legislators often pass sweeping changes hoping to achieve one result, not realizing it will create countless other consequences not intended. Some of the unintended consequences will be positive, but many of them will not be. A case

    READ MORE