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  • How Politics Is Like a Nigerian Email Scam

    How Politics Is Like a Nigerian Email Scam0

    Comes this e-mail to me today from one Mr. Bintou Ojabo, with the subject line reading “I need your full trust”: DEAR ONE, PLEASE PERMIT ME TO INTRODUCE MY SELF TO YOU, MY NAME IS BINTOU OJABO, I AM 19 YEARS OLD, I AM THE ONLY CHILD OF LATE MR.DAVID OJABO WHO WAS A FAMOUS

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  • Why Don’t More People Teach Manners?

    Why Don’t More People Teach Manners?0

    As I was walking out the door of a CVS last week, a woman walked right into a man standing in place and kept going without a word. The man was visibly perturbed, and finally after a few seconds asked with exasperation, “Could you please just say ‘I’m sorry?’” He sounded desperate, as if in

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  • Whatever Happened to ‘Go Outside and Play’?

    Whatever Happened to ‘Go Outside and Play’?0

    CNN recently ran an article in which a number of older, more experienced mothers weighed in on the difference between raising children today and raising them 30 to 50 years ago. Each of the mothers contributed interesting insight, but veteran mother Judy Wallace hit upon one of the big elephants looming in the realm of

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  • The Evolution of King Arthur

    The Evolution of King Arthur3

    The early trailers for Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) were released last (northern) summer, which means my favourite season in life as a medievalist academic is coming: the season of The Truth About King Arthur. It doesn’t matter if the movie itself is good or bad: the question I will be

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  • Professor’s Anti-Trump Rant Caught on Video, Goes Viral

    Professor’s Anti-Trump Rant Caught on Video, Goes Viral0

    Via CBS News: A political discussion in a college class touched off a firestorm, CBS Los Angeles reports. A college professor went off on President-elect Donald Trump in her Orange Coast College class. There are now threats of legal action. The human sexuality teacher, Olga Perez Stable Cox, called Mr. Trump’s election “an act of

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  • People Can’t Stop Talking About ‘Post-Truth’; So what is it?

    People Can’t Stop Talking About ‘Post-Truth’; So what is it?0

    It’s official, folks: the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is ‘post-truth’. What is the meaning of this Orwellian-esque concept?  The definition appears straightforward: “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” The term ‘post-truth’ isn’t new though. It’s been

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