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Time Passes Quickly                        #277 By Hank Silverberg              We are at spring break for my college classes this week, and I need the rest. This past week I had to listen to about 35 speeches from two classes. For the most part, the students are catching on and doing their work. But sometimes one of them does something unintentionally that really irks me. And ironically it ties into all the fuss over the age of the two major party presidential candidates.  This particular student did an Informative Speech on the value and function of Electric Vehicles in comparison to the traditional internal combustion engine.  He made a few mistakes, but that's okay. You learn that way. However, I called him out for one line.  In reviewing the history of electric vehicles, he said, "and in your time, Professor..." Well dawg, gone that got me angry. First, he's talking to the entire class and he shouldn't be singling me out. But he also included some ageism, imp

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