Every now and then, I come across an article that causes me to have a “Wait, is this satire?” moment. Those moments have always ended with a laugh and the realization that yes, said article is indeed a joke. Until today, that is. The article that caught my attention was produced by Slate and entitled
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Jazz musician Louis Armstrong claimed he was born on the Fourth of July. Although subsequent research has shown that he was actually born on August 4, Armstrong is no less an American icon, a performer who reconciled people through the joy of his music. What is not so widely known is that this great entertainer
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The many authors we hail today as cultural and literary geniuses are often assumed to have been recognized as such during their lifetimes, living successful – at least financially successful – lives. However, that assumption is often not the case. The five authors below were not as popular during their lives as they are now
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In a recent article for The Washington Post, author Meredith Hale shares some rather humiliating experiences she recently endured at the hands of her daughter’s 8-year-old friends. The first was being ordered to eat an old, crusty fragment of bagel picked up from the floor. The second was being intentionally slapped in the rear. Hale
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Few today would disagree that we live in a morally confused age. Most of us have a sense of right and wrong. But if pressed to explain why we believe what we do, I suspect you’d encounter a great many blanks stares and incoherent responses. Much of this is attributable to the rise of emotivism,
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Yesterday’s fraudulent and illegitimate vote to install a constituent assembly in Venezuela is the definitive step towards consolidating a de jure dictatorship in that country. The constituent assembly will enjoy supra-constitutional powers, which means that its prerogatives go beyond writing a new constitution and include, inter alia, dissolving and removing all existing institutions—including those controlled by the opposition or held
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