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A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

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Jan 1
A List of Predictions Made in 1925 About 2025

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Women will dress logically in one-piece hygienic suits WIRELESS AGE IN YEAR 2025 IS PREDICTED London. A fantastic picture of a world run by wireless in the year 2025 A.D. is painted by Professor A.M. Low, noted educator, who predicts that light will be broadcast by wireless, all means of locomotion will be controlled by wireless, and women will at last dress logically in a one-piece hygienic suit, warmed by wireless. --The Tampa Times, 3 Sep 1925
People will live to 150 20 Years Added to Human Span of Life  Century Hence We May Reach Age of 150  Savant Says Man May Become Immortal  --Seattle Union Record, 9 Apr 1925
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Dec 22, 2024
The 2024 Headline of the Year Nominees

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2024 Headline of the Year nominee (September) Zoo admits that their pandas are ‘painted dogs’ after backlash from visitors ‘That’s the Temu version of a panda,’ viewer says  Olivia Hebert Los Angeles --The Independent, 20 Sep 2024
2024 Headline of the Year nominee (March) Leave car keys at front door for thieves, advises Toronto Police --India Today, 15 Mar 2024
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Nov 8, 2024
A List of People and Things Blamed for Ruining America

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Absence of whiskey Absence of Whiskey Is Ruining Nation, Says Aged Veteran By the Associated Press NEW YORK, Aug 10 - Declaring that the lack of whisky is breeding a “race of ping pong players,” Nathan Douchy, 91 year old champion of rum and tobacco, has spoken his mind about what this world’s coming to. –The San Angelo Daily Standard, 10 Aug 1925
Flirting Flirting Evil Is Ruining the Nation By the Rev. PERCIVAL H. BARKER of the First Congregational Church of Maywood N.J. FLIRTING IS A POTENT CAUSE OF THAT COARSENESS AND BESTIAL VULGARITY WHICH ARE DOING SO MUCH AT PRESENT TO IMPACT THE BEAUTY AND DIMINISH THE POWER OF AMERICAN HOME LIFE, DEGRADING MARRAIGE TO THE LOW LEVEL OF A CONVENIENCE AND TO THE STILL LOWER LEVEL OF SENSUALITY. FLIRTATIONS FOSTER THE SOCIAL EVIL. –Bluefield Evening Leader, 22 Oct 1910
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Oct 9, 2024
A Brief History of Students Today Aren’t Prepared for College

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2024 High School Students Think They Are Ready for College. But They Aren’t --EducationWeek, 21 Feb 2024
2015 Too many students unprepared for college --Portage Daily Register, 17 Mar 2015
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Aug 27, 2024
A Brief History of Baseball is Dying

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2022 Opinion Guest Essay  Baseball Is Dying. The Government Should Take It Over. April 6, 2022 --New York Times, 6 Apr 2022
2010 Baseball's dying. Who's got the will?  Every summer, I celebrate the ultimate privilege tempered by infinite sadness.  --Sun-Journal, 11 July 2010
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Aug 21, 2024
A List of Predictions of When America Will Have Its First Woman President

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2017: "someday" Chelsea Clinton predicts woman president -- someday  Chelsea Clinton mostly stuck to the subject of childhood obesity Friday at a Variety magazine event honoring prominent women and their charity work -- except for her last line.  Responding to a pointed quip hours earlier from emcee Vanessa Bayer that none of the honorees' mothers was president, Clinton said that maybe not, "but someday, someone's (mother) will be." --Press Journal, 23 April 2017
2005: "2016" Here are some predictions about the future of politics:  2012: Michigan extends term limits.  2016: U.S. elects its first female president.  2024: U.S. elects its first African-American president.  --Lansing State Journal, 17 September 2005
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