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After the slap heard round the world, I must admit there’s one thing I still can’t wrap my brain around. It’s just conflicting. I don’t understand. Please don’t assume I understand why Will Smith got up and hit, slapped, whatever-you-want-to-call-it
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To illustrate the main point of today’s post, we could focus on the recent, 94th Academy Awards. But Hollywood seems increasingly less popular and even lesser in touch with the totality of society. Sometimes I think we celebrate the wrong things. This year's show, no less, got
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As multiple media voices seem to amplify their chosen angle, it’s helpful to know who is who and what their bias is in order to avoid manipulation, fake news and misinformation. To be clear, sources on both the left and right engage in intentional manipulation, fake news and misinformation.
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No doubt we learn from one another. If willing. We sharpen one another. We grow. Become wiser. Learn more. And as passionate about our perspective as we may be, it is always prudent to invite the respectfully-stated perspective of another… especially from those closer to the situation and outside
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As we’ve been poignantly reminded in recent weeks how fragile and precarious the world can be, emotions seem to be running a little higher. And when emotions run high, it’s easy to become fixated on specific people. (With the unfortunate plethora of media bias and hence agenda, some
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We were walking to the gym in the morning Florida sunshine, as is our regular Monday routine. My son — for those of you who don’t know him — is this vivacious, articulate, musically-gifted 20 year old. There are days he claims to be a rap star. I just think
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The former actor… comedian… Now the sixth and current president of Ukraine. A few notes first about the man, who seems quickly becoming more… He was a political outsider when announcing his candidacy just over 2 years ago. He was said to be for the people and against the so-
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As one who asks and encourages the asking of good questions, it’s fascinating the plethora of questions we all have about Ukraine… what’s going on… how far will this go… what will happen to the Ukrainian people… how much more will this inflate prices here… and how should
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The world is watching. So now what? What should we do? I suppose if there was one knowingly right way to proceed, we would have done that already. So noting the strategic ambiguity, let’s go here today. The Soviet Union originally cofounded the United Nations (UN) in 1945. After
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Consistent with the President’s annual State of the Union address, the Intramuralist routinely shares our “State of the Government” perspective, in which we have long respectfully shared the conviction that the current US government is too partisan, too influenced by money, too big, too financially imbalanced, and too far
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It feels a little funny to me to be sitting at the keys of my computer in the comforts of my own home today… having a cup of coffee… quietly delighting in my daily, refreshing quiet time. It was a full week, in fact… work, walks, even time for a
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On the first non-football weekend of 2022, sports fans were treated to a far less ethical degree of fanfare. At the conclusion of CBS’s nationally televised NCAA basketball game between the universities of Michigan and Wisconsin, the Wolverines’ head coach Juwan Howard struck the face of a Badgers’