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Georgetown forward Ish Massoud suffered a hand injury during yesterday’s 78-64 loss in a scrimmage against Pitt that is likely to sideline him for the early part of Georgetown’s schedule, and potentially even longer than that, according to multiple sources in and around the Georgetown program. As of last night, Massoud was set to get an X-ray on the hand, but the early belief after talking with multiple sources is that Massoud broke his hand.

And we’re back! Well, we never left. We’re always here for you. And another new episode of Parenting is a Joke is waiting for you with the charismatic Seth Herzog! You see him in sketches with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Showand just know, while he’s there he’s also thinking about his two 5-year-old twins. Has anyone else here planned an important event, hired a babysitter only for them to bail?

Reading The Stranger by Albert Camus made me realize why some philosophy has helped me to be clearer, happier, and more effective than ever, but some philosophy is a useless brain rot.  Becoming a father has made me both more action-oriented and more contemplative at the same time. Trying to educate myself so I can make the best decisions is what led me back to philosophy after abandoning it in my late twenties because I wanted to do more and think about stuff less.

I was shocked to learn that Rico Carty will be indicted into the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame.  Shocked because I could not imagine that he had not been inducted years before. Before there was the magnificent Hall of Fame trio of Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz, before there was the Murder’s Row of Acuna, Jr., Riley and Olson, before there was Dale Murphy and … ncG1vNJzZmicmKqwrHrSrpmsrJGYuG%2BvzqZmqWeTpLuovsCtrKWZpJ68r7%2BMraZmrJiaeqOxxKBkm6ep

BAR HARBOR—Space heaters. Layers. Closing the doors and keeping them closed. These are all the ways that the Conners school students and staff dealt with yet another break in its heating system for the past two weeks. The problem occurred approximately two weeks ago and the boiler for the Conners building had to be shut down and we had no heat, Principal Dr. Heather Weir Webster explained to the school board Monday afternoon.

I’ve noticed a gap in discussions of polyamory, which is that there isn’t much accurate, frank discussion of the disadvantages of polyamory. From monogamous people you get “actually, all poly people spend all their time overwhelmed with jealousy” or “what if your girlfriend ignores you to spend all her time sleeping with Chad” or “poly people are not capable of love.” From poly people you get “well, polyamory leads to personal growth, and some people just don’t like personal growth.

If you follow parenting Instagram, you probably already know what’s hot and what’s not in the realm of discipline. Punishment, it seems, is out — some parenting experts claim it’s ineffective, while others argue that it also undermines the parent-child relationship. I’m generally not a fan of sweeping moral statements about parenting — it’s certainly easier and more attention-grabbing to package advice in stark, black-and-white terms, but the fact is, reality is often much more nuanced.

A few days ago, like most of the world, I heard about the sudden death of Mandisa. I’m going to be honest and tell you that it has hit me very hard. I had a dream about her a few days ago. I’ve been processing my thoughts about it with my husband. I’ve been praying about it. I’ve reached out to friends of mine who knew her and none of them are res…

(HUDSON, N.Y., November 17, 2023) - The first time I heard the “new” Beatles single, “Now and Then,” I was in the back seat of a car on the way to the airport. The driver had his radio tuned to what sounded like a local AM station – I didn’t know they still existed – and the song was played with little fanfare beyond “the new single by the Beatles.” I wasn’t totally surprised to hear it – I knew it was release day but I hadn’t yet had a chance to listen properly, which for me means through headphones connected to a popular “hi-res lossless” streaming service.