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Who’s Cheating America: Unclean Hands Edition
Okay, so you run a company called Advanced Sterilization Products. Given that name, what’s the minimum you need to do? You need to have products, obviously, and they must relate to sterilization. Anything else? Well, they should be advanced. Now of course, that’s a somewhat subjective term, so there’s probably some room for disagreement between Continue reading
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Black Hole
I’ve always had a love-hate thing with deep space. On the one hand, I’m fascinated (note to terrible poets: I’m happy to consider a poem about space for our terrible poem breakdown series). On the other hand, I find myself overwhelmed by the feeling of insignificance when thinking about anything farther away than the moon. Continue reading
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Who’s Cheating America? The Smoke-Filled Room
Cheaters – they’re everywhere! Politicians promise us up and down they’re going to put an end to cheating. Work Hard and Play By the Rules, Americans! Isn’t that the motto? Do that and you’ll be fine. Except… when the politicians are themselves the cheaters. And the story of their cheating has a twist you could Continue reading
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Who’s Cheating America? Gung Ho Edition!
Ah, remember the days when we Americans weren’t afraid of China? Back when our boogeyman was Japan? You know, the days when bumper stickers said “BE American, BUY American” and movies like this one ruled the screen? Why were the Japanese so much better than us in the ’70s and ’80s? Because they cheated? Of Continue reading
