In Honor of Black History Month After last week’s horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, it’s tempting to romanticize the past and imagine that obtaining an education was once not as dangerous of a proposition as it is now. However, the young people who led the charge to desegregate […]
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You may have wondered about the interesting giant steel sculpture in front of the parking garage in central downtown Colorado Springs. It’s a clock! Since it’s only the hands, you may need to take a second look. The creator of that clock was one of the more interesting characters of Colorado Springs history. Starr Kempf,
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I teach a college course called United States History Since 1945. It’s a fun class because the students and I get to reflect on U.S. social, political, economic, and military history of the last seventy odd years. It’s one of those classes where I can show the hilarious episode of I Love Lucy called “Job
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Except for children, the infirm, and the elderly, I think anyone who decides to eat laundry soap deserves whatever happens. I’d rather not have to pay for their upkeep if they survive as vegetables. The Darwin Awards can always use new candidates, and the Tide Pod Challenge certainly qualifies. For the uninitiated, the Darwin Awards
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One of the biggest surprises about William Lobdell’s book Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion—and Found Unexpected Peace is the respectful tone he maintains toward not only religious people in general, but Christians in particular. Given the book’s title—and considering some of my own life experiences–I expected the author to be bitter.
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