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Why we are engineered for another 9/11; the TSA is working backwards

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The media and blogosphere is going nuts with this recent hulla-balloo over the TSA pat-downs and full-body scanners. In news segment after segment, after the guest tirades about lack of privacy, dignity, pornography scan and whatever else is the convenient … Continue reading

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Quit scaring us and quit calling us ignorant. The great Park51 mosque debate

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I’ve been mulling over this issue of the Park51 community center containing a mosque for the past week now, trying to reconcile in my own head the disconnect I have with an unconditional freedom of and from religion and the … Continue reading

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The BP oil gusher needs empathy to cap more quickly

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Down two blocks and over one, there is a house that has two special-needs kids. Every morning at 6:27am, a over-sized school bus with tinted windows roars up to their door and whisks them away. The driver must always be … Continue reading

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Blame the terrorists.. again

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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 … Continue reading

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Put the smart guys in charge, please

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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 … Continue reading

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9/11 through the eyes of Gen Y

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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 … Continue reading

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Scott McClellan from a dog’s point of view

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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 … Continue reading

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