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Content warning: alcohol Hi friends, Granted, I don’t know a lot (anything?) about American right-wing media, but even I have enough familiarity by osmosis to be surprised when I was featured in an episode by the controversial conservative commentator/podcaster Candace Owens last week as her origin point for evolving views on alcohol. Granted, I was described as “some random blogger” but in that apparently popular episode, she references and then actually reads aloud from an article I wrote on my then-blog in 2017 about my own relationship with alcohol, an essay which eventually made its way to Relevant Magazine a year later where it has lived ever since.

Sometimes you just want to gear up on the line of scrimmage. Whether you’re loading up the LOS on base downs, or packaging a 50 Front to match a certain look or situation, there’s a time and place for the 50. Here are a few starting points. In simple terms, the 50 Front includes five Defensive Linemen on the line of scrimmage. A basic alignment in a 50 Front would look like this:

This fiftieth issue of Steps To A Humanity Of Organisation (yay!) looks at the phenomenon of ‘toxic positivity’, how to spot and how to avoid it in our conversations at work (and everywhere else). I fear there’s a lot of it about, and some of that might be seen as being ‘solution focused’. It isn’t. Ever been told, in the face of a tough situation, to “look on the bright side”?

Welcome back to “One First,” a weekly newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to all of us. Every Monday morning, I’ll be offering an update on goings-on at the Court; a longer introduction to the Court’s history, current work, or key players; and some Court-related trivia. If you’re enjoying the newsletter, I hope that you’ll consider sharing it with your networks (and subscribing if you don’t already).

Hamilton Morris (born April 14, 1987) is an American journalist, documentarian, and scientific researcher. He is the creator and director of the television series Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, in which he investigates the chemistry, history, and cultural impact of various psychoactive drugs. Join us at the Budokon retreat. Intro music “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; “Family Affair,” by Sly and the Family Stone; “Do You Want my Job?” by Little Village.

This Sunday, “Past Lives” is up against films like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” at the Academy Awards. While I don’t think Celine Song’s extraordinary movie will win for Best Picture, I do think she has a great shot at earning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Of course, “Past Lives” is an American film set partially in South Korea and with half the dialogue in Korean. But this got me thinking about some of my favorite Korean films that I wanted to share with you.

Katie Dalebout guest-hosts the show to interview Christy about her new book, The Wellness Trap! Christy shares why she wanted to write a book about wellness, the potential harms of integrative and functional medicine (and why we’re understandably attracted to these approaches), the connections between wellness culture and diet culture, the legacy of the “hysteria” diagnosis and why women are still having to push back against the idea that symptoms are all in our heads, the role of social media in spreading wellness mis- and disinformation, and more.

You can almost hear the tentative sigh of relief in the opening line of Berkshire Eagle critic Milton R. Bass’s review of Panic in Year Zero!: “Although the bomb shelter scare of a year ago has died down to a tremor nowadays, a lot of Americans still wonder about what they would do if the nuclear bombs did drop.” The Eagle ran the review as Panic played at the Palace Theater in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, alongside Prisoner of the Iron Mask, a fellow release from the low-budget specialists at American International Pictures.

The last two on the list of the Seven Deadly Sins are Greed and Sloth. I call these ‘boundary’ sins. They are either concerned with partitioning things to ourselves or living without boundaries or restrictions. With Greed, we selfishly hoard objects and relationships. And then crave to control even more, when we aren’t satisfied with what we have. But with Sloth, we take no responsibility for what God has entrusted to us.