In some ways, I wasn’t surprised to see my son on YouTube trying one of those pickles you see in convenience stores. You know the ones. These. And […]
society
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Video games did more than improve my reflexes. Really.
I’m a gamer. And I’ve learned four key things from them. Photo by David Grandmougin on Unsplash These lessons mostly come from multiplayer games here – whether tabletop […]
health / healthcare / society
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I don’t wear the red on my sleeve.
“Why aren’t you wearing red today?” The co-worker’s voice is shrill, sanctimonious righteousness dripping from her tone. “Don’t you know that wearing red today shows that you support […]
parenting / society
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It’s time to quit stigmatizing single parents and start acknowledging them.
I was a single parent when being a single parent wasn’t okay. Photo by Sebastián León Prado on Unsplash Well, it was for me; I was a male […]
music / society
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What song popular during your life are just wrong now that you look back on them?
Today at work, I’m not in control of the music… which means that we’re listening to a lot of pop songs from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. And […]
feminism / sexism / society
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The important news about Harvey Weinstein isn’t what he did.
The important news about Harvey Weinstein isn’t what he did. Don’t get me wrong – what he did (and really, is there any point in putting “allegedly”?) is […]