What do George Soros and Buddhist bodhisattvas have in common?

March 8th, 2008

If it seems odd to connect a famous financier and philanthropist with mystical powers gained through enlightenment and transcendence, don’t worry–it is odd. But there’s a common key that I found, and that is the key of flexibility in philosophy.

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Covering political rallies: Who decides what TV cameras show?

March 4th, 2008

We know that candidates dicker with presidential debate sponsors on everything, such as what television cameras may or may not show. Candidates demand control. We expect this at debates. But who decides what cameras show at political rallies?

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Who has access to your personal data? Everyone–except you

March 2nd, 2008

Last month the Associated Press cast a harsh light on a dark secret of many big public industries–that workers have far securicam.jpg too much access to personal data of customers, and misuse and abuse it accordingly.

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Sen. McCain and sex? It only seemed like a good story

February 24th, 2008

Perhaps the most disingenuous word a journalist can deploy is “seemed.” As a transitive verb, “seem” is used “to suggest uncertainty” — not, as The New York Times failed to do, tie one set of facts to another set of facts and thus conclude with certainty “we gotcha.”

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Flash: Sen. Denny quits prez race, cites cost of buying superdelegates

February 23rd, 2008

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For the moment, consider me as two-term Sen. Denny. That makes me more a professional fundraiser than a politician. I need money to acquire influence while in office in case I run for president. That’s because superdelegates cost money.

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Cartoonists to Protest Lack of Color in the Comics

February 19th, 2008

You could call it a sit-in, of sorts. Perhaps a sketch-in would be more appropriate, a comic call to arms, with cartoonists of color protesting for greater presence in newspaper pages. Protesting in the best way they know: drawing about it, en masse, all on the same day.

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Bush orders clampdown on flights to US

February 19th, 2008

EU officials furious as Washington says it wants extra data on all air passengers

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Myths Dispelled, Dreams Broken

February 19th, 2008

While in Berlin for the release of a new documentary he helped produce, music legend Neil Young shocked reporters Friday with the revelation that music cannot change the world.

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Ban books? Ban ideas, ban imagination, ban a future

December 8th, 2007

To ban a book is to ban an idea. Some ideas are good; some are bad. But good and bad are judgments each of us must be free to make — and learn to make.

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Pssst! Want a cushy news corporation CEO job?

December 4th, 2007

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The compensation of the new CEO of Journal Register Co., a media corporation, will leave you flabbergasted, considering the company’s stock price tanked by 90 percent while he was a director. And his predecessor gets very nice parting gifts, too.

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