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So many relationships come to end because of shame.

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Teen speak seems a ball of confusion to me. If you know, tell me what's going on.

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Hack sports journalism is the sad standard of today, as evidenced by Steve Simmons of The Toronto Sun at this week's Toronto Maple Leaf press conference.

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The challenges of learning come from within.

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Institutional feedback can be highly inconsistent. One moment you're the go-to, the next you're out of the system.

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It's a trembling line from fear to anger and back again.

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Questions are the headlines of today.

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Cormac McCarthy wrote many profoundly powerful novels. This isn't one of them.

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Gambling On the Moon

Artemis II is about to take us back to the moon, where as noted by Buzz Aldrin in his 1974 memoir, there is a starkness of shadows and the unusually brilliant white, a contrasting white like no white I had ever seen. Armstrong’s brilliant white Upon returning home, Aldrin wrote about staying in bed. When I wasn’t in bed, I sat staring at the television set. If a man reflects at all, it is…

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The American Dream is the American Tragedy.

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The Oscars continue their path down the road of irrelevance.

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When help doesn't mean help, and there's nothing you can do.

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A Little More Epic Fury, Valued Customer?

‘Kind’ regards. ‘Best’ as well. But what are regards if not kind and best? Are vitriolic regards a thing? ‘Most’ is needed too, as sincerely isn’t enough, respectfully neither. This sycophant language – or is it language sycophancy? – spouts from all corners. We’re all ‘valued’ customers, appreciated too. Until the card is declined. Then we have a epic problem. Which brings us to Trump’s need to…

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That Millenia-Old Myth

My girlfriend saw her ex across the room and was insistent about talking to him alone. I could hear everything they were saying, and then I couldn’t. She was gone when I looked over again. “She had to sort something out with him.” That was the waitress, a once lovely woman with too much mascara. “I hope you have a healthy relationship.” “The lies of love and how this millennia-old myth has kept…

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How Does Mike Czirfusz Handle This Rage?

Bullying is the avatar of these ill-tempered days. Whatever the argument – beliefs, politics or sport – the road to take is straight to hell. And while I know that this rage-baiting is all drivel, that people taunt because they’re scared and stupid, they remain an exhausting pain. I was taunted throughout my high school days. Craig Nettie, Adam Moreland and Andrew McAlpine took turns mocking me…

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Things that appear important one moment mean nothing the next. I flit to whatever comes next, getting hit, somehow surviving, capitalism outraging and comforting me all at once.

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Everyone, each and every one of us, disappoints in the end, not just our government lying and hoarding, but our family and friends not there, our nearest and dearest terribly sorry that they forgot whatever it was.

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