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The disgraceful ravings of Candace Owens

Joe McCarthy was famously undone by the rhetorical questions at a 1954 congressional hearing: "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" If the same queries were directed to Candace Owens at such a forum, she'd sail on unperturbed -- since she has no idea what "decency" means. The conspiratorial podcaster has embarked on an investigative series on Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk. In this context, "investigative series" means a loosely stitched together collection of sewerish falsehoods and innuendo smearing Erika Kirk. Perhaps ...

The big lie

Is it just me or is OZ in the air we breathe? For the last 2 years we have seen 2 remakes of the classic story with some additions (The “Wicked” series). Personally, this past October, I helped with vocal supervision for “C.O.A.C.H.” homeschool group’s fantastic production of the ...

Modern technology has limitations

Modern technology is wonderful, but it pales in comparison to the human mind. Recently I found myself on the Ohio Turnpike traveling through Northeast Ohio. Anyone familiar with their geography and who follows the weather even a little bit, understands that the turnpike there is right in ...

Transforming through change, a modern pioneering lifestyle

When a lobster outgrows its shell, it wedges itself between two rocks and moves around until the old shell cracks and breaks loose, freeing the new shell and uncovering a bigger body. When a snake grows beyond the limits of its container, the skin sheds and leaves a translucent memory of what it was before the transition of growth. When a baby is born, new lungs are introduced to air, cries fill the room. The mother’s body is transformed, holding both pain and joy with both hands. Change and transformation is a baseline for existing and yet somehow, we are always surprised when it ...

Am I the problem? Or is it all fated.

I recently matched with someone on a dating app and we started ‘chatting.’ We graduated from the dating app chat box to exchanging numbers and texting. I thought this was a good sign. Our conversation was sparse and mostly was focused on trying to make a “dinner date” happen. I ...

Mamdani’s NYC flirts with chaos

A brutal cold snap has gripped New York City and much of the East Coast, freezing streets, sidewalks -- and, it seems, any remaining sense of civic restraint. In Washington Square Park, a group of adults began hurling snowballs and other objects at responding officers from the New York City ...