Category: Opinions/Editorials
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I Once Made An Amazing Basketball Play … That My Coach Hated
Though I now love basketball as an adult, I wasn’t into it at all as a child. In fact, I didn’t really start playing basketball until I entered seventh grade. I’m guessing a four inch growth spurt (also, my last growth spurt) prompted this interest in the sport. I liked it a lot, more than…
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Something Awkward Happened To Me At Work Today
As a teacher, there are ample opportunities for one to embarrass oneself. I’m in front of teenagers about five hours a day, every weekday, for ten months out of the year. In the past, I’ve always been worried about unstoppable bodily functions. I won’t go into specifics, but you get the idea. That’s always been my…
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The Worst Football Hit I Ever Experienced
If you had the pleasure of playing football with me, you know I wasn’t the top talent to ever go through Beardstown High School. In fact, it seemed as though I got progressively worse as my experience grew. I’m joking. … Mostly. I loved running the football. Loved it. Defense, though? I didn’t care for…
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Dan Le Batard, Alexa, and Me
Alexa and the Amazon Echo always kind of freaked me out. Amazon is pretty direct in admitting that the Echo is always listening for “Alexa,” its activation phrase. And then, about a year ago, stories started circulating that people could hear a faint laughter emitting from it. This unsettled me to the point that it…
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Ben Affleck … I’ll Miss You
You may remember that I’m a strong supporter of Ben Affleck’s Batman. In fact, I wrote a lengthy article a few years ago encouraging Affleck to stick with the role. While Michael Keaton will always be my favorite Batman, with Adam West coming in second, I thought Affleck playing an older, beaten-up Batman worked really…
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Bill Maher Is Mostly Wrong, But He’s Also a Little Bit Right
I read an article over at ScreenRant describing an editorial by Bill Maher basically taking comic book fans to task. More specifically, taking adult comic book fans to task. This seems to be a complicated story. It appears to have started when Bill Maher wrote a blog post called “Adulting.” In it, he basically reacts…
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This Season Of The Handmaid’s Tale Will Be My Last
We’re not Hulu subscribers, so when everyone heaped praise upon The Handmaid’s Tale, we had to wait until it came out on disc to experience it for ourselves. We were able to finally watch it a few months ago, and we can attest that it deserved all of the acclimation it received. Sure, it was…
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No Bad Days Allowed
Yesterday a student asked me if I ever get in a bad mood. She told me she had trouble imagining me being angry or upset. I laughed and told her that I’m just like everyone else–I have good days and bad. I then explained to her that when you’re a teacher, you adopt something similar…
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President Donald Trump Has Exceeded My Expectations
President Donald Trump has always been a unique figure during my lifetime. I grew up with him acting as a bombastic promotions man. Yes, I knew he was in business, but I primarily experienced his face on board games, appearing on World Wrestling Entertainment television, talking with Howard Stern on the radio, feuding with Rosie…
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