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  • #MeTourism: The Hidden Costs of Selfie Tourism

    #MeTourism: The Hidden Costs of Selfie Tourism2

    Technology has changed the way we travel. Smartphones, travellers’ comments and photos, search engines and algorithms can all inspire and empower us to plan complex journeys all over the globe within minutes. Planning and booking tourism has always had an element of risk. One has to commit upfront – there is no sample to try

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  • ‘Man-Flu’: It’s real?

    ‘Man-Flu’: It’s real?0

    It’s day six of the man-flu: my head pounds, body aches, and some foul demon is still sucking the marrow from my bones, so heavy are my limbs. Surprisingly, my wife who is “100-months pregnant” and may be going into labor at any moment has been mostly doting, urging rest so that I can pull the

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  • University Offers ‘Problem of Whiteness’ Class, Again

    University Offers ‘Problem of Whiteness’ Class, Again0

    The University of Wisconsin-Madison will reintroduce a class this spring that teaches students why being white is a bad thing. The “Problem of Whiteness” course—part of the African Cultural Studies program—makes its mission to help students “understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy.” The class will also investigate how

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  • 1 of Every 5 Government Employees Has a 6-Figure Salary

    1 of Every 5 Government Employees Has a 6-Figure Salary0

    The U.S. government pays employees a total of about $1 million per minute, according to a watchdog group’s report on the sprawling federal bureaucracy. Looking at 78 large agencies, the nonprofit organization OpenTheBooks.com found that the average salary of a federal employee exceeds $100,000 and that roughly 1 in 5 of those on the government

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  • ‘The Last Jedi’ is Awful and Disney is Ruining Star Wars

    ‘The Last Jedi’ is Awful and Disney is Ruining Star Wars0

    In 1964, shortly after the release of Disney’s adaptation of P. L. Travers’ charming 1934 book Mary Poppins, J.R.R. Tolkien sent a letter to one Miss J.L. Curry of Stanford University. In the letter, Tolkien complained about the corrupting influence Walt Disney’s movies had on literary works. “Though in most of the ‘pictures’ proceeding from his

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  • Why So Many American Children Respect Nothing

    Why So Many American Children Respect Nothing0

    For the last 20 years or so, there has been one regular item on my Christmas list. That item is the annual anthology of old-fashioned Christmas stories entitled Christmas in My Heart. The series has been running for over a quarter of a century now, and even if I don’t ask for the latest edition,

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