Author: SmallWords
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Election Ads
With Ohio elections coming up, Ads for x, y, and z political candidates are jump scares around every corner. Oozing with claims, dripping with dreadful details, these ads are just as likely to scare you as to inform you. The commercials roll, and all of a sudden, the room gets darker in my estimation, and…
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Where Did the Literacy Go?
Rose Horowitch is back with her hot takes. She grieves for math scores, mourns for student attention span, and, closest to my heart, she portends the horrors of a post-literate society. Meanwhile, the legislative branch is brewing an even more frightening blow to literacy.
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Ferns and Fears
What fears have you overcome and how? Daily Prompt The irredeemable dyslexic that I am, I read this prompt very wrong. “What ferns have you overcome and how?” It made me think of the following ferns I came across a couple of days ago, at the Garfield Park Conservatory: But since we’re on the topic…
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Patagonia, Inc. challenges PRIDE
The camping equipment and clothing brand, Patagonia it taking the Drag performer “Pattie Gonia” to court. Patagonia’s complaints ring hollow. Let’s take a look at intellectual property laws and see why the brand thinks it should take on PRIDE during PRIDE month.
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Wordless Wednesday: Gloom on this side of the divide
But there were cheery flowers, and a bird flew overhead…
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Fiction is Real
The US is at war again, and it’s starting to seem like news stories are straight out of fiction. I would argue they are.