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Ten Years Ago Today in This Blog
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Dilbert
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I've been reading about explorers, trappers, traders, voyageurs, and mountain men my entire life. It's good to see others getting involved.
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Here is video of the final 11 kilometers of today's Gent-Wevelgem race in Belgium. Peter Sagan wears the rainbow jersey because he is the reigning World Champion in the road race.
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To the editor:
Goldberg dismisses Trump supporters as uninformed. He's wrong.
In California, it's easy to change political party affiliation. It takes a few minutes; I know because I just did it.
I changed my affiliation from Democrat to Republican in order to vote for Trump in the primary, and I know that if he is aced out of the nomination, I will hold my nose and return to the Democratic Party. I am highly educated and politically centrist.
Trump is winning because people are sick of all the media and entrenched power brokers trying to maintain the status quo. There's change coming, and it will be good for everyone, even pundits who will be proved wrong when the final votes are counted.
Louise Greene, Pacific Palisades
Note from KBJ: Welcome, Louise. We're taking back our country this fall—from the feminists, environmentalists, progressives, cosmopolitans, race hustlers, abortionists, perverts, free traders, and global-warming hoaxers.
From Today’s Los Angeles Times
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I learned a new word today: "cisgender." How could I reach the age of 59 (in 12 days) without knowing that I'm cisgender? The comments on this post are humorous.
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This essay may be worth some of your valuable time. I'm ambivalent about the speech codes, multiculturalism, political correctness, micromanaged sex, and progressivism of college and university campuses. On the one hand, I wish campuses were dedicated to free speech and the dogged pursuit of truth; but on the other hand, since students are paying through the nose to attend, they should be able to dictate the conditions in which they live, work, and study. If 18- to 25-year-olds want to be treated like kindergartners, so be it. But they can't expect professors like me to stay on campus any longer than is necessary to teach my courses and attend meetings. I find the campus environment oppressive and unsafe, like a prison. How anyone could view it as a "safe space" is beyond me.
Academentia
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