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Zany Misadventures in News, Weather & Sports
I take the morning newsfeed with my coffee. We got a real clickbait problem.
Scientists Think They Found Remnants of Noah’s Ark: Scroll, scroll, scroll. Read, read, read. Nothing but a catalog of explorers with various scientific credentials over long chunks of history and technological advancements; and no clues of any evidence whatsoever for remnants of Noah’s Ark.
The Best TV Show Released the Year You Were Born: Just another waste of time that ends up with me feeling old.
Opinions: The Christian Right’s Version of History Paid Off on Abortion and Guns: Democracy Dies in the Washington Post.
When we all agree that the world’s climate breakdown is great news in terms of beachfront properties and endless summers, will it finally feel stupid enough for we as a civilization to grow up and change?
So many of our civic priorities are FUBAR. It is way too easy to blame social media. While many among us must use various social media platforms in our jobs, logging on is most always a choice that begets series upon series of choices. We can learn alot about our own and others’ conscious choices regarding a hierarchy of needs and the search for meaning, respectively, in the writings of authorities such as Abraham Maslow and Viktor Frankl.