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whatever you want to call it, but it is often pretty annoying how it seems to be a tighter or awkward fit going back in than it was on its way out.
double entendre of the year, bro.
whatever you want to call it, but it is often pretty annoying how it seems to be a tighter or awkward fit going back in than it was on its way out.
When I was an active reporter, late-eighties, early nineties -- our town was covered by two daily papers that kept local bureaus here, a local tri-weekly, a weekly, an "altnerative weekly," and two radio stations. There were usually more reporters at a city council meeting than there were people actually serving on the city council, and as a result, local affairs were meticulously covered. Nobody got away with anything, and the town was a better place to live because of it.
Now we have one local paper, a weekly, with one reporter covering muncipal affairs. And the people who run this town get away with murder.
Trying to put mail back in the envelope in which it arrived. Maybe I just lack the dexterity/hand-eye coordination, whatever you want to call it, but it is often pretty annoying how it seems to be a tighter or awkward fit going back in than it was on its way out.
I knew that was coming, but I had to do it any way.double entendre of the year, bro.
Folding a fitted sheet always starts out with best intentions, but it sure doesn’t look like it when I have finished.That ranks right up there with folding a fitted sheet.
I knew that was coming, but I had to do it any way.
That ranks right up there with folding a fitted sheet.
I just kinda wad ’em up. I’ve checked out the online tutorials and practiced some and still can’t do it. Investing any more effort might be of some benefit, but really, I don’t care if my bottom sheet isn’t hotel-maid worthy, so I can’t see why anyone else would, either.
I'm closing in on two decades of teaching, among other things, the significance of plurality in a media - especially 'news' media - context and legal regulation to ensure the same (here in a Council of Europe country signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights, our equivalent of the Frist Amendment, Article 10, enshrines a right to receive a wide variety of information, the subtext being that freedom of expression is of limited value if the opinions expressed are formed solely on one, (state) approved narrative). One thing I have come to feel strongly about is this effect of the loss of local journalism (owing to nil money being made or invested), with the result that much of significance to the day to day lives of people goes unnoticed. Not only in terms of local government being held to account (UK political culture exacerbates this, as typically many who bother to vote in local elections view them purely through the lens of national politics and treat them purely as an opinion poll on the government of the day), but equally importantly in terms of reporting of local courts, presenting a significant drawback for 'open justice'.
I carry small hope that local news initiatives will begin to turn if the long term effect of the pandemic is, as many currently predict, people spending more time working and existing closer to home, and therefore paying more attention to local issues.
It's almost impossible to satirize a society that is, in fact, a parody of itself. I know -- I've tried: I did a radio bit recently ridiculing a certain prominent conspiracy theory and I found that even my wildest exaggerations were just minor alterations of that theory's actual beliefs.
The high cost of higher education in the United States.
Not everyone should get a four year college degree, but those who want one should not have to mortgage their future for decades. ..
Congressional relaxation of the student loan limit strictures prefaced advantage taken and voila, tuition unshackled
by well intentioned but naive souls, and the kids and their parents had the buck passed.
The Vietnam GI Bill was a joke.
Congress should rectify this greed grab by gowned robber barons.
All of which could and should have been avoided with a little foresighted pragmatism.
At the very least, no changing of core curriculum or major requirements after a student is enrolled. Changing the damned rules in the middle of the game is flat out dishonest.