It’s 40 years this spring since I graduated from high school, and it’s easy to feel old when you realize how much the world has changed during those years. But if you really want to feel old, compare the changes in the past 40 years with those that occurred in the four decades before that!
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The leagues could compromise and adopt a 14-game schedule that starts in late winter (to avoid Canada’s worst weather) and ends in late summer, with a dedicated bye week during the NCAA Final Four, and perhaps another during the NBA Finals.
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Is it a coincidence that Comcast’s data caps suddenly appeared during in the midst of this pandemic, when workers are more dependent than ever on the internet? Are they just sticking it to remote workers and others isolated during the crisis, or is there some other motivation?
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Like many people, I’d never heard of Schitt’s Creek until the show had wrapped its final season. I became aware of it when the show and the entire cast won Emmy awards, and when I was looking for a new comedy, I thought I’d give it a try.
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In a desperate attempt to retain their audience, newspapers and broadcast networks changed their mission. Instead of simply reporting the facts, they started interviewing spin doctors on both sides of the political fence. In short, they replaced devotion to the truth with a quest for balance as their prime directive.
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Bee Gees never wanted to be known as a disco act. They just happened to be experimenting with R&B at the same time disco hit, and their association with the movement was sealed when they contributed five songs to what became, at the time, the top-selling record of all time: the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, disco’s musical bible. It was so enormous that it overwhelmed just about everything else about the Bee Gees’ success.
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