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Here we go! Issue 361 of Uncommon Sense is at your disposal. People often imagine that they need to shield themselves, cloak themselves in a protective Kevlar cocoon, be invulnerable. Not always the right approach. The Self-Development column explains. The Elephant in the Room column demonstrates that, due to the crazed radicals on the Left, […]

There is a peculiar piece of advice floating around these days that says personal growth requires us to “be vulnerable.” Like many pieces of advice, it contains considerable truth—and just enough ambiguity to get us into trouble. Vulnerability does not mean wandering through life emotionally naked, announcing every insecurity to anyone unfortunate enough to be […]

Welcome to the WMBA. No, that isn’t a typo. Let me explain. If the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) ultimately decides that biological males may qualify for its teams simply by pretending they are women, then perhaps intellectual honesty requires changing the name. The Women’s and Men’s Basketball Association (WMBA) has a nice ring to […]

Here’s one of those wonderfully clever websites that you probably never knew you needed until you tried it. PlayPhrase.me is essentially a search engine for spoken words and phrases in movies and television. Type a word, expression, or short sentence into the search box, and PlayPhrase immediately begins serving up short video clips in which […]

Let me come clean right at the outset: I am not a trained chef. I’ve never attended culinary school, I don’t own one of those tall white hats, and no one is going to confuse me with Wolfgang Puck. But I do love to cook. There is something wonderfully therapeutic about working in the kitchen—chopping, […]

Building Your Power of Expression Aforementioned, adj. Pronunciation: əˈfôrˌmen(t)SHənd Meaning: This word denotes a thing or person previously mentioned or referred to earlier, especially earlier in the same conversation, document, or piece of writing. In conversational English, it basically means “the thing/person I mentioned before.” Usage: “I will be playing various songs from the aforementioned […]