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Hypocrites
My reflection on today’s gospel: Matthew 23:1-12.
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Fixing the problem of college costs
Student loan debt recently broke $100 billion for the first time in history. It isn’t like we couldn’t see this coming. Virtually no wage increase for the bottom 95% over the last thirty years. Annual tuition increases above inflation rate. State payment cuts to universities. Decreased scholarship opportunities. The end result is college costs have…
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The excuse of fear: “nonlethal” force and the powerful
In the week between when the world discovered Sgt. Shamar Thomas, some dudes went crazy. The viral video of an Iraqi veteran chastising the New York police department for arming up against their own civilians as if it were a war zone was a wake-up call to the sleeping public. These public protesters aren’t impudent…
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Mixtape Monday: the slow build
One of my favorite parts about music is the slow build. What I mean by this is the song that starts simple, soft, and slow. And it gets you listening to it’s quiet and before you know it you are raptly focused on the words, listening for something. You don’t know what. And then it…
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A glimpse of the Republican Alternate Universe
There’s not believing something because it seems so wrong. There’s not believing because the wrong keeps happening. There’s believing because of precedent. And then there’s not believing again because the precedent is just too much. Tuesday night, the scales were tipped into lala land. After eight Republican debates, we have now found a list of…
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Phew! At least nobody got mauled…
So a guy lets loose 56 exotic animals, including lions, tigers, grizzlies, and wolves in Zanesville, Ohio, near Columbus. This no joke. This is a true story. He kept extremely dangerous animals. At home! In a cage! Bengal flippin’ tigers! So the guy lets them loose, cuts the cages to keep anyone from getting them…
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Monday Mixtape: the love song
Who among us hasn’t made a mixtape for someone they loved? Or at least were in love with at one point. It should come to nobody’s surprise that I’ve made a bunch of such mixtapes in my time and given them to…well, several…people. But, and this may sound cheesy, there is something about the mixtape for…
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It is not what we want
“This notion that ‘These media companies are just giving us what the public wants!’ No. They’re giving us what the media companies want; they’re giving us what the advertisers want. And they’re packaging it in such a way as to make it sound like it is our fault; it’s not.” –Jennifer Pozner Giving people “what…