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Tag: economic hardship

  • Latest Unrest in Haiti — Our Island Neighbor Needs More than a Bandaid

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    As the news comes in about the kidnapped American and Canadian missionaries in Haiti, I know we are all concerned. Everyone hopes that these people are quickly released unharmed. However, the continued unrest in Haiti needs more than a temporary solution. Our island neighbor has too long been ignored by the United States, treated poorly…

  • Know Your Place

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    Once, when I was standing on the platform of the AmTrak station in Tupelo, I saw a starving family. A few years later, when I was at the Varsity in Atlanta, I saw a woman take a bite from a chili slaw cheese dog, frown, and pitch the bulk of it into the trash. It…

  • The Problematic Nature of Amazon’s Hellier

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    Victor Cypert
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    Amazon’s docuseries, Hellier, details an investigation by three apparently terribly ignorant “paranormal researchers” into the presence of small “goblins” living in a mineshaft near the moribund mining town of Hellier, Kentucky. Despite being rife with pseudoscience and obvious bad actors (as in agents, not hired thespians), the show emphasizes the growing and alarming disparity between…