Category: 2010
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Why my dad married my mom, I think
IT'S A PRETTY GOOD LOVE STORY, my mom and dad. As I have mentioned before, every Thanksgiving Dad tells the story of how they first met. This is how it…
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Welcome to Neologismia and other made-up words
ALL MY COLUMNS ARE WRITTEN IN WORDS. Mostly the same old words (e.g., the, be, to, of, and, a, in, that, I). This gets boring for me, so I am…
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Chapel Hill’s problem is Chapel Hill
THE PROBLEM WITH CHAPEL HILL is often it doesn't seem to know that it is the problem with Chapel Hill. (By Chapel Hill I don't mean the all the town's…
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It’s little ol’ me versus the killer deer
I AM AT WAR WITH THE DEER. Over the years I have killed two of them – but, understand, they were trying to kill me first. Back when it was…
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“Are you stupid?” A gaffe of Olympic proportions
VANCOUVER, via satellite — It would have gone down as one of the great gaffes in sports history, if it had been in a sport that anyone cared about. It…
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Inflating Carolina: Achieving a workable solution
GRADE INFLATION IS SUCH A PROBLEM for the University of North Carolina that I can't even find a list of UNC's recent valedictorians. Why not? Probably because printing it out…
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Inflating Carolina: The root of the problem
CAROLINA, AND ABOUT EVERY OTHER COLLEGE in America, has a problem with continually inflating grades, having become an institution where all the students are above average — almost literally. As…
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The New York Times v. Citizens United v. FEC
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ABOUT the recent Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Some of the organs of the major mass media, which I won't mention by…
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The Devil and the Reverend Dr. Robertson
I MAY BE STEPPING IN THE VIPER'S NEST, but here I go. Following the earthquake in Haiti, televangelist Rev. Pat Robertson made this statement: "They (the Haitians) were under the…
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Coaches association expels Duke’s Cutcliffe
WACO, Texas — Meeting in emergency session, the executive committee of the American Football Coaches Association voted unanimously to expel Duke University head football coach David Cutcliffe from its ranks…
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