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  You Talkin’ To Me, Pal? – The Dos and Don’ts of Digital Discourse

  It felt like all eyes were on him as he sat there pondering his last words — an utterance that had come from his heart, and which he thought would take the dull, cruel conversation in another, healthier, direction. But the

  August 19, 2020 • Commentary • Views: 346

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  Adventures in Homeschooling Open Up New Possibilities

  The threat of mandatory temperature checks and mask wearing in schools has some parents at the tipping point, where they start to plot a future with tutelage of their kids moved firmly under their supervision and roof. This was

  August 12, 2020 • Commentary, Featured News • Views: 402

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  Vax Zealots Try to Put Their Message in A Bottle

  My mother was a nurse in London in the 1960s, where respiratory illness was prevalent amid the industrial pollution of the day. The hospital wards would be filled with patients in tents, meticulously maintained and cleaned to

  August 6, 2020 • Commentary, Featured News • Views: 518

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  Truth is Erased by The Racial “Whitewash”

  I have to admit that my skin color has been a problem for me throughout my life: it’s pale, prone to blushing and gets incinerated by the sun in the blink of an eye. I envy anyone who has a complexion that isn’t reactive and

  July 11, 2020 • Commentary • Views: 602

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  PC Brigade Marches Towards A Life of Hard Knocks

  One of my favorite low-budget films from the 1980s was John Carpenter’s Escape from New York — an urban nightmare, where the imperial US is perpetually at war and the degeneracy of society results in a whole city being

  June 15, 2020 • U.S. News • Views: 333

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  Welcome To A World of Smoke & Mirrors

  The Great Awakening, eh? That term gets thrown about social media these days. First time I saw it, I immediately tried to place myself among it; as someone who might be more awakened; someone who has been exposed to more hidden

  May 27, 2020 • Commentary • Views: 385

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  Citizen Journalists Usher in A Changing of The Old Guard

  As I watch the hashtag “Obamagate” spiral upwards on social media – despite the hosts’ technical chicanery to the contrary – it really feels like the collective mind is fracturing into two distinct realities: one

  May 13, 2020 • Commentary, Featured News • Views: 485

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