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Peer pressure is a problem that plagues more than just teenagers.  The immersions of media combined with existence in the…
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Popular lore posits important life decisions as a simple fork in the road, the choice as simple as properly calibrating…
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Proud to have used the tiny pulpit of my last column in furtherance of an important social cause, I was…
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As is customary, the courtroom’s occupants rise when the judge enters.  But, that ritual is a vestige of a different…
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Processes move with astonishing speed, faster than our past selves could ever have imagined.  Yet our present selves, accustomed to…
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The passport control line was a menagerie of accents, skin colors, fashions, and tolerances for the concept of the queue. …
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Mirrors as a physical entity are predictable; a given mirror will reflect the same way every time.  But our perception…
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I was only unnerved because I watched the doctor’s face as he delivered the news.  Normally clinically impassive, his increased…
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Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, I inherently believe in the promise of our species.  Recently accosted by a surly,…
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Doesn’t it shock you to remember that there was a time in America literally called the “Era of Good Feelings?” …
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