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  • The Three Things Every Good Man Wants to Do for Women

    The Three Things Every Good Man Wants to Do for Women0

    “Anything you can do, I can do better,” runs the old song from “Annie Get Your Gun.” Although once a humorous look at the battle between the sexes, today the song is a fitting anthem to the reign of girl power in society. Women, it is thought, can and should do everything that men do.

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  • The Three Stooges Make a Comeback

    The Three Stooges Make a Comeback6

    “The rewards for being sane are not many, but knowing what’s funny is one of them.” Thus spoke the late novelist Kingsley Amis through a character in his work, Stanley and the Women. Whether I am sane may be a point of contention, especially since the hammer blows from the political and cultural disasters of

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  • The Three Rs: Let’s Pass Them Along to Our Young People

    The Three Rs: Let’s Pass Them Along to Our Young People0

    Room 241, a blog maintained by Portland’s Concordia University, reports these dismaying statistics regarding the current state of the Three Rs – reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic – in America. More than 30 million American adults cannot read, write, or do math above a third-grade level. Seventy-five percent of American prison inmates either never graduated from high school

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  • The Threat to Free Speech at Missouri

    The Threat to Free Speech at Missouri0

    According to various news sources, the police at the University of Missouri are asking students to report “hateful and hurtful speech”. Here’s the document reported by The Daily Caller: As the police admit, hateful and hurtful speech “are not crimes”. Yet, they also indicate that the University of Missouri can take disciplinary action. And here

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  • The Third Worlding of America

    The Third Worlding of America0

    Whether it is forest fires caused by decrepit infrastructure, the use of intelligence agencies to target domestic political opponents, growing inequality, or a rejection of our political traditions, America more and more feels like a third world country. First, consider what it meant to be a first world country. This has always been a small

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  • The Therapeutic Power of Stories

    The Therapeutic Power of Stories2

    Stories hold a powerful sway over the human spirit. They reach us on the deepest levels, moving, inspiring, instructing, and even healing us, as modern therapeutic practice has shown. Stories and poems consolidate and interpret random occurrences and emotional and sensory activity—the raw inputs of experience—into a meaningful whole. This allows us to understand reality

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