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9/11

Blame the terrorists.. again

January 19, 2009

Generation Y isn’t lazy, impatient, demanding, high-maintenance and self-absorbed. They are just living life fully, in the moment, every day. Why? Because of terrorism.
Huh?
Yes, says Tamara Erickson in a recent podcast posted on Bnet.com. GenY came of age during the era of terrorism and that affected them so much that they seek to be in [...]

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Put the smart guys in charge, please

October 1, 2008

Susan Suess Kennedy wrote an article recently for the Huffington Post examining why Americans have such a disdain for smart people. A popular terms among the non-intellectuals and shallow thinkers is “elistism.” The undereducated white guys chant this, along with “drill baby, drill” (which I don’t really get as a mantra, but ok..) Here’s the [...]

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9/11 through the eyes of Gen Y

September 11, 2008

Tim Weaver write this article today about 9/11. A short snippet.
I’m not saying that we should not defend ourselves from terrorists and other foreign threats. I’m not even saying that the war on terror is a lost and hopeless cause and a horrible squandering of our resources. All I’m saying is that we can’t let [...]

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Scott McClellan from a dog’s point of view

May 31, 2008

There is a lot of talk about Scott McClellan’s new book. Comments from it range of “now, we know the truth” to “he is bitter” to … oh, who really cares. Just everyone shut up already. If you want, buy and read the book, if not, just quit talking like you know anything.
Here is the [...]

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The real death of the Dayton Daily News

April 20, 2008

For those of you who may not know, I was with the Dayton Daily News from 1998-2002. It was perhaps the most meaningful period of my life, in which I learned how to write objectively, think independently, treasure really, really talented people around me, learned how to change the world with little more than a [...]

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