I took the SAT in 1979. Like most of my classmates, I didn’t do any prep work. Kaplan and other test-prep companies weren’t a big thing back then, and the College Board hadn’t been forced yet to publish copies of previous SATs (those very valuable prep tools finally became available in either 1980 or 1981). …
The municipality I worked for on Long Island for 21 years wasn’t diverse by woke standards. Ninety-five percent of my co-workers were white like me and every supervisor had male plumbing like me. The private company I worked for nine years prior to retiring was diverse by woke standards. Roughly 50 percent of my co-workers …
Senator Warren definitely has a bee in her bonnet when it comes to billionaires, especially Elon Musk. It galls her that most billionaire wealth is in the form of unrealized capital gains and can’t be taxed under the current tax code. So Senator Warren wants to change that, and her effort to sway public opinion …
In the movie The Fly, the character Seth Brundle was a legitimate trans-fly. At the beginning of the movie, as a result of a horrible mishap, he began transitioning from a human to a fly. At the end of the movie, the transition was complete. He was a fly. His human hair, teeth, and organs …
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“You gotta watch it. It’s violent as hell, but it sucks you in.” This is how my brother introduced me to the Squid Game several months ago. And he couldn’t have been more right. Mrs. Groovy and I watched the first episode and we were hooked. The most poignant part of season one for me …