Thursday, December 30, 2010

Finding Happiness

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Everybody wants to be happy as we go into the New Year. Shopping and gift giving alone may not have done trick. New Years resolutions may ...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Hard Goals for the New Year

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In just a few days time, hundreds of millions of you will be setting those New Years Resolutions. But so few of them will be kept. Why is i...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

The Sports/Entertainment Complex

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As we spend more and more of our Holiday time watching sporting events, as the business of sports continues to grow exponentially, the line ...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Rebecca Solnit's San Francisco Atlas

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Sometimes we live in places for years, without actually knowing them. To a real extent we live in a kind of "state of mind." Our ...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Got Milk?

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Americans are some of the least healthy people on the planet. Despite great medical care and research and one of the highest standards of l...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Next Generation Democracy

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Tip O'Neil's famous maxim that "all politics is local," is as true today as ever. However the methods and techniques of t...
Monday, December 13, 2010

A Kidnapping from Two Sides

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The war in Afghanistan is, by most accounts, not going well. This month the administration will be conducting a full review of our Afghan p...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Imaginations of unreasonable men

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If you believe that our future will indeed be better then our past, then you must believe in the imaginations of unreasonable men. For it i...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Wall Street Grifters

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Matt Taibbi is perhaps our most audacious financial journalist. In referring to Goldman Sachs as a "great vampire squid wrapped aroun...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Words & Money

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Back in the early 80 it’s estimated that there were over 50 companies that controlled or influenced media in the US. Today that number is l...
Monday, December 6, 2010

Where have all the leaders gone.........

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Few Presidents, let alone few American, might justify a biography of three volumes and over one million words. Yet Theodore Roosevelt's ...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Performance of Politics

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Presidential power passes in our nation, as in no other democracy. Our process of electing leaders, what it demands from them to meet our e...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Vampires and Angels and God, Oh My!

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For over thirty years, Anne Rice has captivated us with her imaginative faction. She has become one of the most beloved novelists of our ti...
Monday, November 29, 2010

All the running he can do.....

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As Republicans now face the reality of trying to govern and run congress with a rather diverse group of freshman legislators, so two years a...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Take two aspirin and see a shrink....

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What are the limits of the medical establishment? How can prejudice and sometimes just lack of answers from Doctors result in a patient suf...

The Journey of American Woman 1960 to the Present

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While we talk a lot about dramatic and dynamic change in our society, it’s worth noting that much of that rapid change has happened in the p...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

A sixth crisis?

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Since the end of WWII, argues Dana Allin , co-author of the book The Sixth Crisis: Iran, Israel, America, and the Rumors of War ,  there ha...
Monday, November 22, 2010

The cradle of civilization...for now?

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We study history not just to collect facts and dates, but rather to understand where we came from, to ascertain the patterns of human affair...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Health Care...Solved

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As the past year will attest, if we wait for Washington to solve the health care crises, we could be waiting a very long time. Yet in spite...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

The information toll road?

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The subject of net neutrality, the idea that everyone should have the same access to the web, is certainly the subject of much debate. But t...