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More and more download the traditional “Mouth App,” where you apply your mouth to every event. Content is irrelevant.  Hollywood types and TV News commentators are big users.
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Haunting you every day are the Done twins, Coulda and Shoulda.  They create regret and remorse, but are often resolved calling on their brother, Woulda.
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It seems the Vatican’s true view of child sexual abuse by priests is that it’s a clerical fringe benefit. You know, room, board, and boys.  And now apparently,  nuns are on the menu.
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There are those who pretend and those who pretend to pretend.  Such as to "greatness."
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What does a college do when applicants have low standardized test scores (e.g. ACT, SAT)?  Eliminate the requirement.  Dress it up in high-minded reasons pertaining to diversity and economics, showing how open-minded you are. Welcome Creighton University in Nebraska, the latest joining a number of other colleges doing the same.  This follows many of the weaker graduate schools removing graduate versions of the same (e.g. GRE), also dressed in the clothing of lofty-sounding logic.
https://www.omaha.com/news/education/higher-education/creighton-will-stop-requiring-standardized-test-scores-from-most-applicants/article_b157a143-5d3c-5428-b0c1-4df005027f2c.html

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