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Opinion: Loving TV to death
A well-respected Australian magazine on coronary disease reports that watching too much TV, even if you are not overweight, can shorten your life. The original study didn’t get much attention because the publication has limited circulation, which makes sense, since most of its…
Opinion: Principle of opinions
English is a tricky language. Words like “set” can be used in as many as eight different ways. We can set a coffee on the television set as we watch the US Open tennis set. When the vocabulary musters up distinct spellings, they often mimic each other in sound. We might say that…
Opinion: Performing under pressure
I get a lot of medical advice from readers — not great medical advice, just a great deal of it. Thanks, but no thanks. I have a good physician and a superior AI program. Marriage advice? Financial advice? Writing advice? Send it all my way, but, please, no medical advice. That…
What was Indianapolis’ song of the summer?
When DJ Jim Cerone looks out over a crowded dance floor, he sees dozens of people with distinct musical tastes. Each person has a separate list of favorite songs on Spotify, or different tunes they know from their catered TikTok feed. “Then you put 200 of those people in a room…
Opinion: Path of least resistance?
Political philosopher, historian and lifelong Midwesterner Russell Kirk said in “The Essential Russell Kirk,” “The integrated man is governed by the permanent things.” To Kirk, the “permanent” things were more than death and taxes. The list included a transcendental moral…
Letter: Astonished by the disconnect
Editor, Allison Brown’s Sept. 8 letter about witnessing voting at her school 55 years ago, and the civic pride it sparked, was a lovely read. But I confess a different reaction every time I read letters like hers from older generations: astonishment at a disconnect from the…
Letter: Practical reform needed
Editor, John Blackman’s (Aug. 25) letter was wrong on many points, but more importantly, it was wrong to frame immigration as a partisan issue. Reasonable people on both sides agree our immigration system needs reform. Fear-mongering will not help anyone. The Biden statistic…