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A connected world that’s leaving so many feeling disconnected is counterintuitive and troublesome, yet it’s humanity’s new reality. And this new reality is impacting the next-generation workforce at an alarming rate. Seventy-three percent of Gen Z report feeling alone either sometimes or always—the highest level of any generation. The mental health challenges experienced by Gen Z are like nothing any other generation has faced. Only 45 percent of Gen Z report “excellent” or “very good” mental health, which is the lowest of any generation. Ninety-one percent of Gen Z adults say they have experienced at least one physical or emotional...

A liberal TikToker is going viral after complaining the only masculine and chivalrous men she can find are conservative. A self-professed 'liberal', her posts often prove polarizing, and regularly show a pining for progressive men. Her most recent exploit - posted to 35,200 followers this past Thursday - was little different, but did serve as a slight deviation from the rest of her online oeuvre. In the video, she questioned why she cannot find a left-leaning man who's 'willing to play the more traditional masculine role in the relationship' 'As a liberal woman, it is really hard to find a...

The world is ending because we’re running out of people. Or at least, one world—the one where people think babies cause problems. In this bleak dystopia—i.e., Current Year America—only half of women under age 45 have children. But this is only half the story. The other half of the story—the weird half—is they think those numbers are good news. More women avoiding motherhood? That is progress now, dear.

A new survey released by researchers at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education shows that loneliness is on the rise in the United States and depicts how it can lead to a wide range of other health problems. “Making Caring Common” is a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The group conducted the survey in October and published it this month in a project report. The survey results suggest that 36% of all Americans feel “serious loneliness.” This grouping includes 61% of young adults and 51% of mothers with young children. The report was done based on an online...

The US Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, Don Cochran, said Sunday that the man responsible for the explosion that shook Downtown Nashville on Christmas morning has been positively identified. ... It was also revealed Sunday that a song played before the audio warning and countdown. The song was “Downtown,” the 1964 hit by Petula Clark. The investigation continues into a possible motive and officials are probing whether Warner was a believer of the 5G conspiracy theory. Some people believe 5G towers cause cancer or are used by the federal government for spying on citizens. According to ABC News’...

Aging is inevitable. However, if you want to slow down the process, you should consider having no more than two children, a new report suggests. To do so, they solicited more than 500 people to examine photographs of middle-aged women. The images were categorized into three sections: those with two to three kids, those with four to five and those with seven to nine. After examining the results, they found that women with fewer children were seen as younger and healthier than those with more children. In fact, the lowest scores were given to women with seven to nine children....

Bender's NFL LIVE THREAD Week 11 Thursday, Nov 16, 2017 (All times Eastern) Tennessee at Pittsburgh 8:25 pm NFLN Heinz Field Sunday, Nov 19, 2017 Arizona at Houston 1:00 pm FOX NRG Stadium Baltimore at Green Bay 1:00 pm CBS Lambeau Field Detroit at Chicago 1:00 pm FOX Soldier Field Jacksonville at Cleveland 1:00 pm CBS FirstEnergy Stadium Kansas City at N.Y. Giants 1:00 pm CBS MetLife Stadium L.A. Rams at Minnesota 1:00 pm FOX U.S. Bank Stadium Tampa Bay at Miamin 1:00 pm FOX Hard Rock Stadium Washington at New Orleans 1:00 pm FOX Mercedes-Benz Superdome Buffalo at L.A....

Posting constant status updates on Facebook may be annoying for others, but sharing your life on the world’s most popular social network could also be a sign of loneliness. People who spent the most time on social media had twice the odds of having greater perceived social isolation, a study of more than 1,700 people published Monday in the academic “American Journal of Preventive Medicine.” Social isolation, a state in which an individual lacks a sense of social belonging, true engagement with others, and fulfilling relationships, is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, the researchers said. For example, social isolation...

Cheer Up the Lonely Day When : July 11th Cheer Up the Lonely Day is an opportunity to make a lonely person happy. Any time you can make someone happy, you've done a good thing, and should be proud of yourself. Lonely people have few friends and loved ones. They may have lost loved ones over the years. They may be elderly. They see people on an infrequent basis. Spend some time today cheering up lonely people. It's easy to do.....just spend some time with them. When you visit, bring happy things to talk about. Keep the conversation upbeat,...

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An online radio host is sounding the alarm over a brand-new law he claims grants the federal government massive new powers to saturate Americans with domestic propaganda at U.S. taxpayer expense. “This law allows the federal government to have sweeping power to push television, radio, newspaper and social-media propaganda onto the U.S. public,” warns Michael Evans of America’s Voice Now. “It removes protection for Americans from the ideological diarrhea that will pour forth from this administration like ejected vomit.” Evans is referring to the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, and Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash.,...

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For more than a year, the bearded man consuming a shrimp salad at an Upper West Side cafe has been a prophet of doom, warning that the economy could slide into a "third depression" unless our leaders come to their senses and follow his advice. "I felt like a really lonely voice," says Paul Krugman, an unknotted blue tie draped around his neck. "It's been really frustrating." But he keeps hammering away, demanding action in one New York Times column after another, hoping "to establish a counter-narrative against what everyone else is saying." The 57-year-old commentator feels vindicated after predicting...

In a bombshell new development in the AL GORE SEX SCANDAL, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that the former vice president has finally been interviewed by police in the Molly Hagerty case. Sources close to the investigation reveal that detectives from the Portland, Oregon, Police Bureau traveled quietly to San Francisco on Thursday for the secret meeting with the 62-year-old Nobel Prize winner. "Al Gore has finally been interviewed face to face by detectives in the Molly Hagerty case," a close source told The ENQUIRER. "Details of what was disclosed in the police interview by Gore --and exactly how long...

LAGOS, Nigeria – Internet postings purportedly written by a Nigerian charged with trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day suggest a fervently religious and lonely young man who fantasized about becoming a Muslim holy warrior. MSM makes me sick

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd must have woken up on the far-left side of the bed Tuesday given the number of prominent conservatives she chose to abuse in her article published Wednesday. In "Daisy Chain of Cheneys", Dowd went after former Vice President Dick Cheney, his two daughters Liz and Mary, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, former Vice President Dan Quayle, Rush Limbaugh, the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol, and OF COURSE George W. Bush. This was really quite a venom-dripping hatefest even for Dowd (h/t Jennifer Rubin):

I always thought the most unattractive thing about her was her freckles, which I associated with the malignancies affecting my younger brother, but most others in my high school class saw that she was fat, something I myself did not overlook, but minimized because of the freckles seemed a greater affliction. I never knew the fat girl very well, if at all. The fat girl was from the south side of town, Old Families and Old Money, with its own grade school, while I was from the north side of the town, New Families and New Money, and a nouveau...

This is from Wikipedia: Rudi Bakhtiar joined FOX News Channel (FNC) as a general correspondent in January 2006, and held that role until July 2007 when her contract was not renewed

Actress Lindsay Lohan, who recently finished a month-long rehabilitation program, said she has been hitting the clubs because she is lonely. "Though it's hard in L.A. not to go out, it gets lonely," she told Nylon magazine. "Being an actress is lonely, and I never want to be alone. I hate sleeping alone." Lohan lives in Los Angeles but currently is staying in her hometown of New York City at the request of her siblings -- Michael, 19, Ali, 13, and Dakota, 10, People magazine reported. "I work hard enough and I know how to take care of myself. I...