Month: September 2023

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Loyola Asked the Wrong Guy to Mentor

I do admit: Perhaps a simple “no” would have sufficed. Billy Madison Wrong GIFfrom Billy Madison GIFs But, I’m just not a “simple no” kind of guy. The following is my response to Loyola-Chicago’s request that I participate in some mentorship program: I suspect this program will indeed be helpful to a number of students.…
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The Perpetual Emergency Excuse

With 9/11 on the minds of Americans again, it is interesting to see how sentiment regarding it has moved from misplaced rage and nationalistic xenophobia to recognition of something larger lost than even those who died that day. The great Dave Smith was partially right: more from A Twisted History of the United States, 1450-1945:…
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