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  • Our Failing Students Are Crippled for Life

    Our Failing Students Are Crippled for Life0

    Thirty-odd years ago, I taught adult basic education two nights a week in a minimum-security prison in Hazelwood, North Carolina.            The men in my classes had committed a variety of crimes. The majority were incarcerated for drug-related felonies, mostly possession and dealing. One major dealer from Charlotte was rumored to

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  • Our Failed Leaders and Our Sorry State of Affairs

    Our Failed Leaders and Our Sorry State of Affairs0

    Ignorance. Incongruity. Irresponsibility. Ineptitude. Stupidity. Sometimes willed-stupidity. Pick any combination of the above words, apply them to some of our governors and mayors, and you’ll find the moniker fits them snug as a glove. Never in my entire life have I seen so many of America’s elected officials guilty of such a massive collective failure

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  • Our Expectations Are Making Us Miserable

    Our Expectations Are Making Us Miserable0

    HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm offers a hilarious look at an ego on steroids. In each episode Larry David (co-creator of Seinfeld), playing himself, tries to make himself more comfortable by making the world go his way. In the process he steps over other people while hoping they still see him as a nice guy. He

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  • Our Divisive News Media Needs Clark Kent

    Our Divisive News Media Needs Clark Kent0

    When I was a kid growing up in Boonville, North Carolina (population 600), my public library was the comic book and magazine section near the front of Weatherwax Pharmacy on Main Street. Because I occasionally spent the 12 cents to buy one of the comic books, Mr. Weatherwax tolerated my hours spent sitting on that

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  • Our Disturbing AI Future: Google Gemini Said <i>What</i> About Hitler?

    Our Disturbing AI Future: Google Gemini Said What About Hitler?2

    In the early years of its founding, Google adopted the motto “Don’t be evil” as its guiding moral principle and an expression of the company’s aim to provide users with “unbiased access to information,” as stated in its original code of conduct. In May 2018, that motto went missing. Around the same time, Google executives

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  • Our Digital Drugs Affect More Than Just Children

    Our Digital Drugs Affect More Than Just Children20

    When it comes to children, we’re more than ready to acknowledge that screens have had a negative impact on their well-being. Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” is proof. As of April, that book had spent 52 weeks on the New York Times’ best-seller

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