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5/31/2022
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Blood money
Dozens of sitting Republican senators have received bribes money from the National Rifle Association (NRA). The majority of the money was spent in support of senators who voted against universal
5/30/2022
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Memorial Day
Maybe this Memorial Day should honor the innocent victims of mass shootings. Like the innocent children and teachers killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Slain by a teenage gunman and laws that
5/29/2022
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Is “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” by Gil Scott-Heron the greatest song ever?
Gil Scott-Heron was a college student when he penned his iconic and timeless signature song-poem. It was titled after a 1960s Black Power slogan and written in response to The Last Poets' spoken-
5/28/2022
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American cowboys
Sadly life is not a movie. The ideal of the American cowboy, the tall white man riding high in the saddle who knows right from wrong, works hard and fights harder against injustice, is a complete and
5/27/2022
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Fifty senators
That's all it takes to stop the carnage. To stop innocent children and mothers and fathers and sons and daughters and grandmothers and friends and lovers and everyone from being slaughtered by
5/26/2022
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Viva hate!
Now isn't the time to ignore Donald Trump. Especially the rising rhetoric at his hate-filled rallies as we head to the midterms. Of course, we'd rather turn away. We'd rather mock Trump and
5/25/2022
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How to reduce your waist and live longer
Your waistline is a key indicator of your health. Carrying too much fat around your middle not only makes your, er, tubby, but also increases the risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Every extra
5/24/2022
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Medical marijuana
Older Americans are turning to medical marijuana. A survey of 1250 Medicare recipients over sixty-five found that one in five respondents are using medicinal cannabis to treat one or more health
5/23/2022
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Living well with persistent pain
On a scale of one to 10, with 10 being the strongest, how would you describe the pain you're feeling? All pain is real and all pain is subjective. You may feel excruciating pain and yet be told
5/22/2022
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Is “I Am a God (Feat. God)” by Kanye West the greatest song ever?
Industrial and electronic lurching, urging, throbbing omnipotent hip hop. Dancehall vocal sample and paranoid sawtooth synths over a deep pulsing bass as Kanye West furiously raps about loyalty,
5/21/2022
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Cross the street
Josh Spector recently shared a nice piece of advice. Every morning when you go for a walk through your neighborhood you probably take the same route. It's reassuring. It's calming. But once in
5/20/2022
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Shame
It was a hearing on Capitol Hill to investigate the deadly insurrection. One police officer described how rioters attempted to gouge out his eye and called him a traitor as they sought to invade the
5/19/2022
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Never feel tired during the day
Cocaine and caffeine can certainly put a jump in your step. But their energizing effects are spiky and short-lived. Caffeine increases alertness by blocking the effects of adenosine, a brain chemical
5/18/2022
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It’s fascism
You've got to call it out. There's no point in pretending to be polite or considerate. Or trying to get along. Republicans can call you a communist or a socialist without a second thought. They
5/17/2022
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Our democracy is on fire
Our democracy isn't fragile. Our democracy is completely broken. If Democrats fail to hold both houses in 2022 we won't have to worry about 2024. The American experiment will have failed. On
5/16/2022
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How to overcome procrastination
Procrastination is a human condition. We all procrastinate. We can dodge, hide, justify with the best of them. The standard reasons are plentiful and easy to identify. It's difficult to get started
5/15/2022
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Is “Rapture” by Blondie the greatest song ever?
Funky guitars and church bells chime over an insistent new wave syncopated beat. Debbie Harry's preening, keening vocals sing about wall-to-wall nightclubbers and distracted twenty-four-hour
5/14/2022
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It’s the little things that count
Look closer than you think imaginable. Look for the small, unconventional and usually overlooked things. That's where the answers are. Waiting for you to see them. Take nothing for granted.
5/13/2022
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Let’s start cleaning our cells
Yes, the housework can wait. We have far more important things to clean. Beginning with our cells. Autophagy is the (wait for it) natural, conserved degradation of the cell that removes unnecessary or
5/12/2022
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Johnny Depp meets Hunter S. Thompson
It's December 1994, past midnight in Apsen, Colorado. Johnny Depp is sitting at the back of the Woody Creek Tavern, way back, past the Polaroids and bumper stickers and stolen number plates. Past