Day: October 6, 2017

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Minnesota “nice”

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It might be nicer not to say “sorry”: A study of more then 1,000 people in Frontiers of Psychology found that people reported feeling more hurt about a social rejection when it contained an apology […]
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Finishing School

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We’re not the top species on the planet because we’re nice.  We are a very aggressive species.  It is in us.  And people talk a lot about how well the military turns kids into killing […]
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Awakenings

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We were probably the last kids of any generation that actually believed our government would never lie to us.John Musgrave, USMC on Vietnam Episode 2 by Ken Burns
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Freedom

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We as Americans should have understood the desire of the Vietnamese people to have their own country.  I mean we did the same thing to the Brits.Robert Theault, Special Forces on Vietnam Episode 2 by […]
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Dien Bien Phu, 1954-05-07

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On the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu, 1954-05-07: We should have seen it at the end of colonial era in Southeast Asia, which it really was.  But, instead we saw it in […]