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  • Sledding Down the Slippery Slope

    Sledding Down the Slippery Slope0

    A friend who was just noodling around the AccuWeather site found a blog post called “Why Have Midwestern Cities Banned a Beloved Winter Pastime?”           The piece, which seems like it might just sit in a slush pile on AccuWeather‘s news desk and await recycling every snow season, discusses a few horrible

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  • Pandemic Exposes Flaws of Education System, Educator Says

    Pandemic Exposes Flaws of Education System, Educator Says0

    I would guess that the neighbor kids living across the street from me are a microcosm of America’s youth population. The oldest hates the distance learning that has been inflicted upon him in recent months. His younger sister, however, loves the secluded learning environment, and would be happy if she never had to go back

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  • Footprints in the Snow: The Burgling of America

    Footprints in the Snow: The Burgling of America0

    Roughly twenty years ago, a man in Asheville, North Carolina left his home in the wee hours of the morning, walked a couple of blocks to a convenience store, burglarized the store, and returned home with his loot. Unfortunately for our thief, snow had blanketed the city earlier that night. After responding to the burglary

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  • 2020: The Year ‘Expert’ Credibility Died

    2020: The Year ‘Expert’ Credibility Died0

    If there were ever a time to “question authority,” as the old counterculture slogan of the 1960s urged, the authoritarian age of COVID-19 is that time. Two thousand twenty will go down in American history as the year that public health “experts” got everything wrong.           It’s not just that their judgment

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  • Cancel Culture and the Golden Age of Musical Theater

    Cancel Culture and the Golden Age of Musical Theater0

    My mom loved listening to Broadway musicals and particularly favored South Pacific. By the time I left for college, she had played that record so often I had memorized most of the songs and can still belt them out. I also saw the movie with her—I’m generally not a fan of musicals on film, and this

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  • A Reading List to Drive the ‘Woke’ Crowd Crazy

    A Reading List to Drive the ‘Woke’ Crowd Crazy1

    At the beginning of the year, a couple of my coworkers challenged me to join the yearly book challenge on Goodreads. While I am still wrapping up a few of my selections, I’m on track to finish my goal, and it’s rewarding to see the finish line in sight. Having done this challenge, I took

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