Category: Commentary
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7 songs I’m ashamed to admit I secretly love (considering that I’m a man)
The Wanted. They are an English boy band who has a new song (video above) called “Glad You Came.” Now – I’m obviously not in their target demographic, but I absolutely love this song. I listen to it multiple times a day. It got me to thinking: as embarrassing as this song is for me…
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Tonight’s storm: How the weatherman said it was, how it actually was
A few weeks ago on Facebook, a number of people were posting those “this is what my friends think” pictures. I was reminded of those photos this evening when I was listening to some of our local weathermen in Columbus describe the severe thunderstorms that rolled through the city. It’s like “How the weather actually…
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The perspective tragedy gives on what really matters
It’s so easy to lose perspective. It’s so easy to complain out of habit, to get frustrated when things don’t go perfectly. We have our waiter make a mistake with an order and respond like they’ve committed some type of wartime atrocity. We complain and we get bitter. I think it’s not because the things…
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BGSU tragedy: shared grief I’ve observed from alumni
I was out to dinner with my family this evening. The conversation swirled around various topics, but I was mostly in a different world, thinking of the deaths of three young sorority sisters in Alpha Xi Delta and I struggled to muster up much of an appetite to eat my meal. At a couple points,…
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Thoughts and mourning: Bowling Green tragedy
For Bowling Green Greeks and for the BG alumni still connected to the university, I feel that this morning’s tragic news of three sorority sisters dying in a car accident is Bowling Green’s “you remember where you were when” moment. All day long, my Facebook has been full of fellow Falcon alumni and undergrads expressing…
Josh Benner 