As I watch our parties and government in action each day, I think a great deal about our founding fathers. While I’m sure they had hidden agendas, egos and self-interest to manage as they bonded against the British, somehow they were able to create a nation on ideologies that were and still are unprecedented in the [...]
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Last weekend, Public Television rebroadcast a documentary they originally televised in 2006 called “Living Old”. I was both mesmorized and mordified. In 2006, the fastest growing segment of the US population was over 85 years of age. Since none of us got any younger, I assume that it’s only accelerating. Filled with interviews of those [...]
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There seems to be alot speculation now about who should have predicted our economic woes and warned all of us of the impending financial collapse. While I understand this can be a valuable exercise in reestablishing trust by determining who might be trustworthy, there is a broader question that may need to be answered. Were [...]
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I’m really conflicted. I love getting access to the Times, Post and Tribune from multiple cities at the touch of a button but it is at the cost of my Sunday indulgence. For decades, there has not been a substitute for coffee, brunch and the paper, the newspaper – in your hand, the fresh print [...]
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While we may not be able to remember what we even said yesterday, there is potentially someone with a video or audio recording ready to play back our contradictory statements from one day to the next. Yet without these video archives reminding us of yesterday’s facts, we would stauchly argue that we’d never said such [...]
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