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Scarily, Football Helmets, Which Do A Fine Job Of Protecting Against Scalp Laceration And Skull Fracture, Do Little To Prevent Concussions And May Even Exacerbate Them, Since Even As The Brain Is Rattling Around Inside The Skull, The Head Is Rattling Around Inside The Helmet.

When Our Culture Shifts, It Tends To Overcorrect, Throwing Out Everything Associated With An Era We've Moved Past, Rather Than Saving What Was Good And Combining It With What Is New.

Humans Have A Fraught Relationship With Beasts. They Are Our Companions And Our Chattel, Our Family Members And Our Laborers, Our Household Pets And Our Household Pests. We Love Them And Cage Them, Admire Them And Abuse Them. And, Of Course, We Cook And Eat Them.

There May Be No More-radioactive Term In The English Language Than What We Now Almost Always Refer To As The 'n-word' - Itself A Coy Means Of Linguistic Sidestepping That Is A Sign Of How Perilous It Is To Utter The Thing In Full, Even In Conversations About Language.

A Close Family Member Once Offered His Opinion That I Exhibit The Phone Manners Of A Goat, Then Promptly Withdrew The Charge - Out Of Fairness To Goats.