Category: Humour
Something funny or a humorous perspective on some topic or thing.
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White House Correspondent’s Dinner
The White House Correspondents Association was founded in 1914 and has held a dinner nearly every year since 1921 to celebrate the reporters who cover the presidency and raise money for scholarships. CNN Provided full coverage of the event itself, from 8PM to midnight, preceded by a one hour preamble and a two hour post-dinner…
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The Ablution Area
In the rich tapestry of the English language, the label ‘Ablution Area’ presents itself as a peculiar choice for such a universal and unpretentious activity as attending to nature’s calls. One might reflect on whether its selection is a quirk of the whims of translation, perhaps aided by an overzealous interpreter with a thesaurus, or…
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Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision,…
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Time to Reassess?
After just 3 hours, the jury awarded E. Jean Carroll 83.3 million dollars in her defamation law suit against Donald Trump. Trump claims that this outcome is just one part of a broader witch hunt being waged against him by Biden through a weaponized Department of Justice. Clearly there must be some truth in Trump’s…
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Misdirection
To come to conclusion as to what is a good personal accounting package is no less subjective than assessing the qualities of a fine wine, a painting, or Chinese Opera. Appreciation is subjective. Once past the bar of functionality–taking care of debits and credits–a personal accounting package needs to be intuitive, even for those who…