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What Glee Got Right

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What makes football players cry? Maybe losing a game, but I haven’t seen that…often. In fairness, that could be because my school’s team has more than their share of experience at dealing with loss. No, the television show Glee got it right tonight, which is something I have only very rarely been able to say. Finn, the football player and

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Orwell Was Right

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Note: I wrote this before Edward Snowden, and when the world was more innocent, even post-9/11.   Clandestine. That’s a word I don’t hear very often any more–a fabulous word with rather seedy, sinister undertones. Civil rights. That’s a phrase I don’t hear very often, either. I think there’s a correlation there. You doubt me? Consider Chicago. The video surveillance system

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