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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 2020: America’s Wake-Up Call

    2020: America’s Wake-Up Call0

    Who could have predicted how dreadful a year 2020 would be? By this New Year’s Eve, 19 million to 20 million Americans will have contracted a deadly virus in a pandemic that exploded out of China to carry off 333,000 Americans, one of every 1,000 of us. As 2021 begins, Americans will be dying at

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