I lost count of the number of natural and man-made disasters that tormented our country in 2018. As of this writing, the latest was a magnitude 7.0 earthquake with an epicenter just north of Anchorage, Alaska. Significant structural and infrastructural damage ensued, but thankfully no lives were lost, this time. The same cannot be said …
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Recently a Dutch man attempted to have his age legally changed from 69 to 49, citing several personal episodes of age discrimination, the most prominent of which was his inability to connect with potential dates, twenty years his junior, on Tinder. His argument can be summarized by this quote: "We live in a time when …
Several years ago I purchased 5.5 acres of land in a rural area north of my home in Knoxville, Tennessee. My original intent was to build a house on it, and I may still someday, but really I just wanted some land. At the time someone told me, "That's a wise investment, because they ain't …
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