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Joe Luca
Opinion: Why Did Dominion Take the Money Instead of Actually Winning Against Fox News?
Gone against Fox News. Won the case. Exposed the lies in open court and gotten the villains to take the stand in front of the American people. They chose money instead. From a viewpoint that we can ALL relate to - needing money - they said yes to a lot of it. They said yes to taking the lead, defending their name, and running with it out in the open, with social media and the world listening in on the depositions and testimonies.
Opinion: Artificial Intelligence -Does It Want To Help You or Take Away Your Job?
Artificial by definition means fake or synthetic. Whether referring to intelligence or a sweetener, it’s something manmade and exists to replace what comes naturally and at a far greater cost. Think, all the artificial flavors on the side of a box of cereal or crème-filled cookies.
Charles Bukowski - I Dare You to Read His Poetry - Will You Give Him a Chance?
Bukowski wrote angry. He wrote drunk. He wrote minutes after getting laid or listened restlessly all night to his neighbor trying to. Then he got up and wrote about what he knew. About the homeless. The dissolute. Whatever heartache was ripping through his life at that moment.
Opinion: Metal Detectors, Keeping Doors Locked, and Other Ingenious Ways to Stop Shootings in Schools
Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and a current GOP presidential hopeful in 2024, was speaking before a crowd in New Hampshire on Tuesday, hours after the school shooting in Nashville, and made her opinions about it known.
Opinion: What is Racism? (No, not that)
I’ve read the definitions and watched the YouTube videos and Frontline reports. I understand pretty much what everyone else understands it to mean. What’s lies behind or underneath it that makes a person not sit next to another human being, not smile at a baby of color, not want - ever - for their child to marry someone like that?
Opinion: Hockey - Grace, Fast Skating and “Shots” to the Groin, A Brief Evolution of a Sport
Do you remember Fred and Ginger dancing gracefully across the silver screen in many of the great musicals of the 1930s? Great music, and incredible dance routines, (many filmed in one take) with both making it all look so effortless.
The NFL, Concussions, Damar Hamlin, and the Illusion That It’s Just a Game
Caveat: I know little about concussions, other than that they hurt, have lingering effects and in recent years have been declared to be as common as scraped knees and pulled muscles. From everything I’ve read and listened to — things are a lot more serious. This article is my take on the game from the perspective of someone who played it for years, got hurt often, and thought smashmouth football was fun and might impress the ladies. Beyond that, no medical acuity is assumed here or pretended.
OK MIllennials: Boomer has had enough
Sometime in October 1952, my parents had sex and nine months later I was the result. A little small, a little jaundiced, and whether I wanted to be or not, added to the ranks of the Boomers, who were rapidly taking over the world and apparently making an effing mess of it along the way.
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