Opinion

By Walter Geiger

I cannot recall when I first stumbled across Facebook but I remember I was initially unimpressed and thought this sort of like coloring books – just for kids.

Turns out I was wrong and, yes, I am aware that there are coloring books for adults. There are even coloring rooms for students at Georgia State University. That’s the safe place the kids there fled to when they stumbled across some pro-Trump graffiti penned in chalk on campus and could not get their mommies on the cell phone. [Full Story »] 

By Mike Ruffin

When I was a third grader at Gordon Grammar School, I became interested in the Battle of the Alamo. I don’t remember why, but I did.
I thought about Googling it, but then I remembered that the Internet hadn’t been invented yet. So I asked my mother to take me to the Carnegie Library to get a book about it.

After checking to see if they had any new Hardy Boy mysteries, which they didn’t (they always had the same two that I’d already read and, no matter how much I begged, they never got any others), I looked around and found a book about the Alamo that looked interesting. It was a pretty hefty volume, but I managed to tote it to the desk and set it before the lady working there. I don’t know if she was a librarian, a volunteer, or Andrew Carnegie’s greatgreat- niece, but I remember what she said. [Full Story »] 

By Randy Vining

I read an article in the paper last week about a study that showed that acetaminophen may reduce our ability to feel empathy. The author went on to talk about empathy and our society’s lack of it. In the article, the author even explains that we are all different and we have different experiences even if we come from the same background. He goes on to talk about “judging” others by our experiences. [Full Story »] 

By Mike Ruffin

Have you taken acetaminophen lately? It’s not surprising if you have, since 23% of Americans do so regularly. You may take it without realizing it, since it’s an ingredient in more than 600 medicines.

I ask because I’m concerned about the seeming lack of empathy I perceive in many of us. Empathy is the ability to understand and share in someone else’s pain because you can imagine what their experience is like. Evidently, acetaminophen may be partly to blame for our failure to empathize.
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