Filthy Lucre

Dr. Words defines Karma in part as “the theory of inevitable consequence”.  But last week in a red carpet interview, Sharon Stone wondered out loud if the earth quake that devastated China is karma.  She also thought it to be an interesting revelation that followers of the Dalai Lama wanted to help the Chinese people […]

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Hillary Clinton is not an honest woman.  But no one can accuse her of being a flip-flopper.  Okay, maybe she flip-fops on issues like Iraq by voting for the war, voting to not fund the war, disagreeing with the war she voted for, but never admitting she made a bad vote.  And maybe she flip-flopped […]

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Following up to the post about Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, here is another post about Roman history.  This time from Elizabeth Rathgeber, who also wrote the post What to do about Sudan?.
I believe that Augustus and Niccoló Machiavelli would certainly agree much more so than disagree on how to be an effective ruler. The young Augustus […]

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Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was a Roman politician who became plebeian tribune during the 2nd century BC.  Gracchus caused quite a bit of turmoil during his time.  Born in 168 BC, Gracchus died in 133 BC at the hands of the more conservative Roman Senate.  Below is a first person narrative written by Naaman Abreu.  Naaman […]

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Sudan, located in northeast Africa, is the largest country on the continent and is compact in shape. It occupies an area 967,494 sq miles and is approximately one-fourth the size of the United States. Some of its neighboring countries are Chad on the west, Egypt to the north, Ethiopia on the east, and Kenya, Uganda, […]

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In September of 1999 Patrick Naughton, an executive at Disney Interactive and one of the core members of the team at Sun who created Java, was arrested in Santa Monica for allegedly arranging an encounter with a 13 year old girl that was supposed to lead to sex.  But Mr. Naughton didn’t do a lot […]

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Sometime on Thursday May 1st, beneath the videos of sneezing pandas, exploding coke and Mentos, and Batman commercials, a 16 year old girl named Crystal uploaded a desperate plea for help.  In this video a young girl is crying and asking for help because the district attorney in Orange County, Florida has dropped the case […]

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“West Virginia had other things on their mind tonight” - Terry McAuliffe
The above quote came from a member of the Clinton camp as they tout their latest victory in a state filled with the Clinton demographic; uneducated white Americans. How this became the group that supports Clinton is beyond me, other than she is […]

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I’m sure I have made my support of Senator Obama, and my disdain of Hillary Clinton known to anyone that knows me.  I think we have a rare opportunity with Barack Obama to have a president that will lead through character.  The last president I think I can actually say was a good man was […]

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Growing up in the 80’s I had the role of President played by an actor.  Ronald Reagan became the person I identified with as my President.  And because I lived in California at the time of the election, I always viewed him as a popular president.  Reagan defeating Jimmy Carter was the first election I […]

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