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  • Lou Gehrig and the Culture of Victimhood

    Lou Gehrig and the Culture of Victimhood16

    Over the weekend, I had the fun of revisiting one of my long-time favorite films, The Pride of the Yankees. For those unfamiliar with The Pride of the Yankees, the movie portrays the life story of baseball legend Lou Gehrig, who died at the age of 37 from ALS, the disease which now bears his

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  • Lost Innocence: Let’s Give Children a Childhood

    Lost Innocence: Let’s Give Children a Childhood3

    Back when I used to own a bookstore in Waynesville, North Carolina, a grandmother with two adolescent grandchildren visited our shop. The kids were soon sitting on the floor, absorbed in books, and the grandmother engaged me in conversation, telling me, as so many grandparents did, how much they loved reading. Then she said, “I

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  • Lost in translation: five common English phrases you may be using incorrectly

    Lost in translation: five common English phrases you may be using incorrectly0

    English is a language rich with imagery, meaning and metaphor – and when we want to express ourselves we can draw upon a canon replete with beautifully turned phrases, drawing from the language’s Latin, French and Germanic roots, through Chaucer and Shakespeare right up to myriad modern wordsmiths – not to mention those apt aphorisms

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  • Lost in the Gender Twilight Zone

    Lost in the Gender Twilight Zone0

    Taylor Beggs is a female wrestler in Texas who is “transitioning” to a male. She recently won the state girls wresting championship to the dismay of many of the other girls competing, some of whom dropped out rather than face someone with a competitive advantage. The process in which a person “transitions” from one gender

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  • Losing a Dad Changes the Biology of Children

    Losing a Dad Changes the Biology of Children0

    A fascinating piece of research related to father loss is highlighted by an article at Family Studies. Most studies of the effects on a child losing his or her father through death, divorce or incarceration, rely on survey questions to measure health. But the new research, published in the US journal Pediatrics  this month, took

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  • Loony Tunes Live, Radical Edition

    Loony Tunes Live, Radical Edition0

    “Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” That warning comes to us as an ancient Greek proverb. You remember the ancient Greeks, right? Those guys we once considered some of the founding fathers of Western civilization before our academic institutions tossed them and all the other dead white men out the door?

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