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The slap heard ‘round the world
The slap heard ‘round the world by Rob Okun 813 words One small step backward for man, one giant leap backward for kind men. Inverting the famous words Neil Armstrong uttered after walking on the moon a half century ago feels appropriate in the aftermath of the Will Smith slap heard ‘round the world. For many years, I led batterer intervention groups, working with men either
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A modest proposal for peace in Ukraine
Maybe, as the human world stands at the brink of possible nuclear annihilation given the antiquated launch on warning system of Russia and its 2,000 “small or tactical nuclear weapons” that Putin may have to “use or lose” depending on the fog of war, it is time to actually consider an “equal protection of the…
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McCarthyism v2.0
In 1954 one of the greatest frauds in US politics culminated in 36 days of televised hearings. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin had come to prominence by leading the campaign to expose communists in government…