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Criticizing the President and CEO of the great humanitarian organization called Samaritan’s Purse, not to mention he’s the son of the 20th century’s most prolific evangelist, is by definition dancing with danger. But I do have a bone to pick with Brother Franklin Graham, and to be honest, it’s the same bone I’ve been picking …
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What could better epitomize the Donald Trump version of a great America than sweaty gladiators beating each other up in a cage on the White House South Lawn while bloodthirsty rich men and women in tuxes and evening gowns cheer them on? Hunger Game spectacles such as these have been done before. Think Nero and …
It’s called the “Sunk-cost Fallacy.” Definition: The Sunk-cost Fallacy is the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial. It causes irrational decisions by focusing on irretrievable costs, commonly known as …
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You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a land whose boundaries are that of imagination. You've just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone. In order to get the reference, you have to be old enough both to have seen the 60s TV …
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Barney: Welcome back to the show, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Author, pastor, activist, and martyr. Bonhoeffer: Thank you. Glad to be here. Barney: We left our discussion last week comparing your historical context with our hysterical one––hysterical, not in the sense of humorous, but as in bizarre, even manic. Everyday we 21st Century Americans wake up to some new whacky thing our president …
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