December 9th marks the anniversary of the Christmas TV special which basically birthed all others: “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Most Americans know the plot well. The despondent Charlie Brown who just can’t work up his Christmas cheer amidst crass commercialism. The confident and obnoxious Lucy, who finds the allegedly perfect solution to Charlie Brown’s gloom.
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If you were to guess how much you spend on eating out per month, chances are you’ll miss the mark by a quite a bit. In a recent study, I found that adults tend to underestimate how much they spend on eating out by more than twice what they’re actually spending. This is a
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On November 3, the U.S. Global Change Research Program released the Fourth National Climate Assessment, a 477-page document filled with concern about Earth’s changing climate. The study concluded that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) cause dangerous global warming. But cannabis growers know something that climate scientists apparently don’t know. The Fourth Assessment is an
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The New York Times recently carried an interesting article on the wedding-cake controversy that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. The article pointed out that prominent lawyers who specialize in First Amendment cases are “vexed” by the controversy. The facts of the case are simple: A Colorado bakeshop refused to create a wedding cake
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WASHINGTON—Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., officially resigned in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. Franken’s resignation comes the day after several dozen of his Democratic colleagues called for the Minnesota Democrat to step aside. Before announcing his resignation, Franken called himself a “champion of woman.” “I was shocked. I
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TIME has spoken. The 2017 person of the year is not a mere individual, but a cohort of women labeled “The Silence Breakers” and pictured in the image above. These Silence Breakers are primarily the actresses who stepped out and spoke the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s despicable behavior over the last several decades. But they
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