News Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/news/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:08:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png News Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/news/ 32 32 Escaping Media Control https://mind-at-work.com/escaping-media-control/ Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:25:14 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5926 G. K. Chesterton  once commented on his experience of returning home after a trip to another country. He suddenly saw familiar things from a different perspective and with renewed appreciation for good things. Such experiences still happen today, almost a century after Chesterton's. But I also had another, quite different experience when returning from such [...]

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]]> “Tough Streetfighter from Queens” https://mind-at-work.com/tough-streetfighter-from-queens/ Wed, 02 Aug 2017 17:20:05 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2283 The appellation “tough street fighter from Queens” has been applied to both Donald Trump and Anthony Scaramucci to explain their verbal abuse of others, and in some cases, alas, to excuse it. I find the appellation objectionable for several reasons. One reason is that, though many of its users seem to regard “streetfighter” as a term [...]

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