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October 12, 2025

Movie Review: Is ‘After the Hunt’ Worth the Catch?

“After the Hunt” is a psychological-thriller, set against the backdrop of Yale University, that aims to explore how people from different walks of life – mainly socioeconomic and generational – view the world. To reveal these disparities, the movie uses…

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September 21, 2025

Does Social Media Have Us Out Here Craving Praise at the Expense of Perspective?

“Tell me lies tell me sweet little lies.” — Little Lies, Fleetwood Mac (1987) These lyrics from songs pre-dating social media give credence to the fact that only wanting to hear good things, easily digestible things, is nothing new. But…

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September 10, 2025

Music Throwback: My Top 3 Lloyd Songs and Why I Like Them.

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Sometimes, when I feel down and out, I listen to music. Back in the day I had an Aiwa 3-CD changer stereo to get my music fix. I don’t care what nobody say, that machine sounded amazing. I wonder if…

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July 30, 2025

How the Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka Controversy Following the French Open Helped Me Understand Obscure Bible Verses

I am a C I am a C-H I am a C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N… I would finish, but I can’t remember the rest of that song. If you went to Sunday school, a Christian school or Vacation Bible school, perhaps you can….

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June 24, 2025

My Commencement Speech Series: Jason Gay Addresses University of Wisconsin – Madison Graduates

I chose Jason Gay, not because I already knew who he was like the first three speakers, or even because I was familiar with the prestige of the school he was speaking at, the previous speaker. I chose him for…

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June 23, 2025

My Commencement Speech Series: Sal Khan Addresses Graduates of Carnegie Mellon University

Unlike the previous speakers, I’d never heard of Sal Khan before he popped up in my search results. I picked him based solely on the school he was speaking at without being privy to what merited him to be there….

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