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Can Highly Sensitive People Succeed in Parenting?0
- Family
- September 11, 2018
Do you struggle with loud noises? Startle easily? Get immediately overwhelmed by certain environments or find it incredibly difficult to switch off? Chances are you have a High Sensitivity Personality (HSP), or, in scientific terms, you may have Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS). And if you’re an HSP parent, you probably jump out of your skin
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What New York’s 9-11 Memorial Says about Today’s Society 0
- September 11, 2018
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum are deeply ugly. Those two gaping pits, a vision of the abyss, mar that tragic earth. Like gashes that never healed, but rather festered into black necrosis, the 9/11 memorial reveals a sickness; a sickness not of the body but of the soul. That day changed America in
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Mark Knight is Our Best Tabloid Cartoonist. Is His Serena Williams Drawing Racist?0
- Culture
- September 11, 2018
Is the Mark Knight cartoon of Serena Williams racist? It depends on where you sit. Let me start with three opinions: I have long thought Mark Knight the best and most intelligent tabloid cartoonist in Australia. I find it inconceivable that he deliberately sat down to draw a racist cartoon and accept his explanation of
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Mike Rowe’s Brilliant Response to the Kaepernick Nike Ad 1
- Politics
- September 10, 2018
By now, you’ve probably heard all about Colin Kaepernick’s Nike ad, which ran as follows: Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt pic.twitter.com/SRWkMIDdaO — Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) September 3, 2018 Following the ad, Nike stock plunged and conservatives had a heyday making knock-off memes, inserting the images of their favorite Democratic whipping
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3 Reasons Why We Should Get Rid of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings 0
- Politics
- September 10, 2018
I think it’s time to seriously consider getting rid of these hearings for Supreme Court nominees. The Constitution doesn’t require a hearing. All it says is that the Senate must give advice and consent. You can do that with a simple up-or-down vote. And let’s be real: Do we really think one senator’s vote is
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Who Had the Bright Idea of Transferring Men to Women’s Prisons?0
- Politics
- September 10, 2018
The other day I was told by a rheumatologist working for the National Health Service that there was a note in my records recommending me for a PSA test (a marker for prostate disease) because of my age. A PSA test for a woman? What is going on in the NHS? Ah, but the note
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Can Highly Sensitive People Succeed in Parenting?0