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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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C.S. Lewis and the Lavender Inner Ring 0
- Culture
- September 10, 2018
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Does Family Bonding Reduce ADHD?0
- Culture
- September 7, 2018
It’s hard to deny that cases of ADHD have exploded in recent years. This is particularly true for boys, whose ADHD diagnoses, as the chart below shows, increased from 11 percent to 15.1 percent between 2003 and 2015. It’s easy to look at this increase and blame any number of things. Smartphones. Video games. Lack
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