What is Happening in American Culture?
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My Pet Peeve: When Words Become Weapons
Some things just set me off Everyone has a pet peeve. Some people are irritated by slow drivers in the passing lane. Others can’t stand people who leave shopping carts in the middle of a parking lot. Mine is a little different. What bothers me is watching words lose their meaning because people find them…
The Death of the Middle Ground
Spend ten minutes on social media and you’ll quickly discover that America is angry. Conservatives are convinced progressives are destroying the country and that socialism is just around the corner. Progressives are convinced conservatives are destroying democracy and introducing Fascism to destroy our liberties. Every election is described as the most important in history. Every…
Are We Becoming Easier to Manipulate?
I recently read a study examining the relationship between literacy and voting. What caught my attention wasn’t the politics. It was the literacy. As I ready through the article I was reminded of several recent interactions on Facebook posts with people who seemed to understand the words they were reading but lacked the ability to…
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