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  • In Defense of Football

    11/15/2017 11:41:24 AM PST · by Kaslin · 25 replies
    American Thinker.com ^ | November 15, 2017 | Patrick Jakeway
    Last week at a roundtable discussion, Bob Costas opened another front by making the provocative prediction that parents will not allow their sons to play football because it "destroys people's brains" and that "if I had an athletically gifted twelve-year-old son, I would certainly not allow him to play football." Is football truly destroying the brains of boys across America? The gauntlet has been thrown. Many articles reporting Mr. Costas's comments cite the high-profile study conducted by Boston University published in July 2017 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). See examples here, here, here, here, and here....
  • Please, no more 1960s

    06/10/2004 9:21:50 AM PDT · by qam1 · 72 replies · 1,594+ views
    The Guardian ^ | 6/9/04 | Jonathan Freedland
    Has any generation in history ever banged on about itself more and with less merit than the baby boomers? Oh good, another 1960s retrospective. And another. And another. You can't move for celebrations of "the decade that changed the world forever". Tate Britain is honouring the art of the swinging decade in an exhibition starting at the end of the month. BBC Four is a week into its Summer in the Sixties season, while the Sunday Times magazine is devoting acres to the 10 years that shook the planet. Why this surge of interest? Has a milestone passed? Or is...