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  • ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’… through the Elections

    ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’… through the Elections0

    William Howard Taft was “multi-chinned” and weighted about three-hundred pounds. In 1908 he was elected as the 27th president of the United States. But according to scholar Neil Postman, he would never even make a presidential ticket today due to the nature of television. In his classic Amusing Ourselves to Death Postman writes:   “The

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  • ‘Ammonite’ May Be the Least Feminist Movie of 2020

    ‘Ammonite’ May Be the Least Feminist Movie of 20200

    Hollywood’s first treatment of the pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning invented an entirely fictious lesbian love story, taking the focus away from her compelling narrative as a self-taught genius forced to operate on the outskirts of British geology due to her gender. As a result, Ammonite may be the least feminist movie that comes out this year. Known

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  • ‘American Refugees’: New Book Offers Some Surprises About Those Fleeing Blue States

    ‘American Refugees’: New Book Offers Some Surprises About Those Fleeing Blue States4

    By now, most readers are aware of the ongoing exodus from blue states to red states, from places like California and New York to the Carolinas, Texas, and Florida. Some of these migrants are retirees in search of warmer weather. Some are millennials in U-Haul vans looking to lower the cost of living or in

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  • ‘Always Packin’: Have Americans Become Lazy About Personal Safety?

    ‘Always Packin’: Have Americans Become Lazy About Personal Safety?0

    The year before she hit it big in the action flick “Speed,” Sandra Bullock played a police officer helping Sylvester Stallone catch Wesley Snipes in “Demolition Man,” a movie set in the crime-free, futuristic utopia of San Angeles. In one scene, as Snipes attempts to construct a gun, lightly-armed policemen close in on him. He proceeds

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  • ‘Adulting’ School is Great – If It Happens in Elementary School

    ‘Adulting’ School is Great – If It Happens in Elementary School0

    By now many have heard about the “adulting” school in Maine, which teaches young, college-and-career-age professionals to live responsible and self-sufficient lives. Among the topics covered in adulting school are cooking, household management, and financial basics. Not surprisingly, the adulting school has been met with outrage, not because the American public disapproves of the subjects

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  • ‘Adulting’ School Founded to Teach Millennials How to Be Adults

    ‘Adulting’ School Founded to Teach Millennials How to Be Adults4

    In the last several years, there’s been growing alarm over the fact that many young people can no longer perform basic skills. In fact, one survey goes so far as to say that there are 20 basic skills – ranging from reading a map to baking bread – that are in danger of extinction in

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