I worry about today’s generation. Whether you know them as “Generation Z” or “iGen,” they are the people born after 1995 who have grown up with their own smartphones and social media accounts. As a Gen-Xer, I am two generations removed from these young people, and I struggle to understand and identify with them. Am […]
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Sliding into the reclining chair, I notice Animal Planet on the ceiling-mounted television. Some man wielding a tranquilizer gun has taken down an Alaskan bull moose. I’m almost drawn in, but the hygienist, garbed in germless gloves and goggles politely requests I open wide so she can descend down my masticating mineshaft to scrape, sandblast,
The Unofficial Organ II:1 [Translator’s note: In February of 1933, the Nazi party faced an election which threatened to disappoint their hopes. Shortly before the election, the Reichstag, home of the German Chamber of Deputies, caught fire in twenty places simultaneously. The Nazis instantly blamed the Communists, though it was widely suspected that the Nazis
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At this late stage of my existence, tattoos have unexpectedly become a significant part of my life. It’s like I have woken up as a character inside the Sunday comics. Tattoos are everywhere and I don’t understand how this trend has occurred. I grew up in an era when tattoos were a major league sin
Three of us, one black, one white, and one biracial, attended the November 21, 2018 released film, Green Book. This film is a comedy/drama based on a true story in which a working-class Italian-American bouncer, Tony Lip, becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist, Dr. Don Shirley, on a tour of venues through the
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Alex Jones is lucky that lawsuits are all that he is facing.
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