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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Schools Should Teach Nowology
Everyone has a strong opinion about education. But the controversies are always about the same topic: testing, teachers unions, funding, merit pay, vouchers/school choice, charter schools. Is college...
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Respect for Religion
Cultural norms are that religion must be respected while other beliefs, cultural and political, receive no such deference.
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New Music, Old Rockers and Young Punks Forever
Originally Published by Breaking Modern: Used to be, bands peaked out early. The good ones cranked out three or four great albums before drugs, complacency, exhaustion, fights over girlfriends or money...
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One Hour a Day Earbud Limit? WHAT?
Originally published by Breaking Modern: The World Health Organization (WHO) now warns teens and young adults that they are at high risk of hearing loss if they listen to music on headphones more than...
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CDs are Dead. Long Live the CD!
Originally published by Breaking Modern: Compact discs are dead. I realized this recently while shopping for a replacement for my dead 25-year-old Sony CD player; where there used to be lots of brands,...
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United Rhapsody: Gag Me with A Pop Culture One Percenter
Culture has always been class-based. Rich people went to the opera; the poor listened to heavy metal. But what we read and watch and listen to is becoming segmented into more striations with wider gaps...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Are Millennials the Most Ageist Generation Ever?
Ever notice how those who complain about being victims are themselves at least as likely to be perpetrators of the same offense? Examples that come to mind for me include the United States and Israel,...
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Police Projection
Police in Indiana banned a hip-hop performance that would have been done remotely, via hologram. What?
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Welcome to the Digital Dark Ages: Movies and Books Get...
Historians and archivists call our times the “digital dark ages.” The name evokes the medieval period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which led to a radical decline in the...
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Your Government in Action
When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, the US government should have began immediately shipping hundreds of masks to every American family from some giant warehouse somewhere. Now it’s the third year...
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