Free Speech
Should the online Kirk haters be fired?
Some of the Kirk haters jumping for joy — including teachers, airline pilots, first responders — were fired from their jobs as a result of their comments.
Mutter Museum
Mutter Museum survives an attack from the Woke
It was a rejection of Mutter’s core mission, because of what?
Culture
Use your eyes and plagiarize. (That is a joke)
Plagiarism is always wrong, but it is not necessarily deliberate. By definition, plagiarism is using or closely imitating the language of another without authorization, and representing the work as one’s own by not crediting the author. It is a very serious ethics breach in journalism, and in other forms
Culture
Why I am awake, but not Woke
I am awake, I am not Woke. Thanks to loving, kind parents, my sister and I were taught there was injustice in the world -- racial, economic, and other -- and we should do what we could to fight it. (My parents were a mother and a father, not a
Culture
Defining Woke down
Today I voluntarily walk into the quicksand of Woke, which I generously award a capital W, so we can easily spot it. The danger in discussing Woke, like its ally CRT, is that we don’t have a universal definition. So I will invent one, as I did with CRT,
Politics
A million for every American
Although it has been tried here and there, a guaranteed annual wage didn’t become a thing until it was raised by 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Wang, who called it a universal basic wage. The guy who liked math proposed giving every American adult $1,000 a month, free
Coronavirus
Virus: Gut check on free stuff
Let’s look at the new economy, being shaped by World War III, against the coronavirus. If 78% of Americans were living paycheck-to-paycheck before World War III started, where are they now, when so many are receiving no paycheck? If only 39% of Americans could withstand a $1,000 emergency