His store manager was livid when Jose showed up for his shift. “Jose,” he bellowed, “Go send Frank home and start his separation paperwork. I’ve had it, this is the second time this week he’s showed up drunk.” Jose was working as an assistant manager for a few weeks as part of a course preparing […]
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“New Cadet, step up to my line. Not over my line, not short of my line, but to my line.” It was my first day at West Point. I could hear The Cadet in the Red Sash up ahead greeting each new victim in line with those words. One by one, New Cadets would step forward,
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It is what it is. Here we go again. God moves in mysterious ways. We’ll just have to agree to disagree. Boys will be boys. Ever hear any of these phrases? Use any of them yourself? Any idea what they all have in common? They are what Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton refers to as “thought-terminating
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The moon landing was faked. Paul McCarty died in 1966 and was replaced with a body double. Chemtrails are a thing. The earth is flat. Birds aren’t real. The Denver Airport is headquarters for the Illuminati. Odds are you have at least one relative or friend who buys into one of these ideas. Heck, you
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In the spring of 1920, Carlo Pietro, an Italian immigrant to the US, was living the American dream. He had started a successful arbitrage business that was paying investors handsome dividends and providing a comfortable lifestyle for himself and his new bride. If you were living in Boston in the summer of 1920, you definitely would
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