September 2007 Archives

All Men are Dying of Prostate Cancer

By David W. Boles on September 28, 2007 10:58 AM | 12 Comments | 2 TrackBacks
I was having dinner last night with my attorney and a medical doctor friend of ours. The conversation eventually turned to the issue of mortality and average aging and what kills men.

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Choose Your Eyes or Your Ears

By David W. Boles on September 27, 2007 9:19 AM | 16 Comments
We are celebrating "Deaf Awareness Week" in the USA as we honor the work and achievements of the Deaf on a worldwide scale. 

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Writing No Longer Matters

By David W. Boles on September 26, 2007 8:48 AM | 26 Comments
The Boston Globe reported last week many top American universities are ignoring the writing portion of the SAT exam when deciding whether or not to admit high school students into their programs of study.

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Republicans Branding Black Stereotypes

By David W. Boles on September 25, 2007 8:42 AM | 10 Comments | 1 TrackBack
Is the Republican Party in the USA Racist? Are the GOP -- "The Grand Old Party" -- kind to Blacks and other minorities, or is their entire purpose and strategy to demonize Blacks and win elections off their backs while only pretending to want and welcome Black skin into power?

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The Moral Obligation to Listen: Ahmadinejad at Columbia

By David W. Boles on September 24, 2007 8:02 AM | 24 Comments | 2 TrackBacks
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be speaking today at Columbia University in the City of New York -- and as a graduate of Columbia -- I applaud putting into action the mandate and creed that was embedded and steeped into me from that fine Ivy League university: The Moral Obligation to Listen.

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Jena is No Selma and the Politics of Boredom

By David W. Boles on September 21, 2007 9:59 AM | 13 Comments | 3 TrackBacks
The march on Jena, Louisiana yesterday is being compared by some in the Black community as a "modern day" march on Selma, Alabama in 1965 and Jena is serving as a political sounding board for Jesse Jackson to accuse Barack Obama of "Acting White" for not supporting the "Jena 6."

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White Like Them: Obama Caught Not Being Black

By David W. Boles on September 20, 2007 7:51 AM | 28 Comments | 2 TrackBacks
We already know Barack Obama has a castrating wife and the pain of public observation grew even more extreme as Jesse Jackson recently accused Barack Obama of "acting White."

Now we must wonder if being born into Black skin is enough to be considered "Black" in America -- or does the droplet still triumph in the polling place?

Or is there a behavior and an attitude that must be sustained in order to carry out the wishes, dreams and hopes of the "Black" experience that defines a man beyond the blood?


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Isiah Thomas and His Black Bitches

By David W. Boles on September 19, 2007 10:09 AM | 22 Comments | 3 TrackBacks
Isiah Thomas -- former basketball great, Hall of Famer, and currently president of basketball operations and head coach for the New York Knickerbockers -- recently said under oath in videotaped deposition for a sexual harassment suit against him and the Knicks that it is more offensive for a White man to call a Black woman a "Bitch" than if a Black man did the same.

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Latin American Slang

By David W. Boles on September 18, 2007 9:46 AM | 8 Comments
Over the past year or so I've noticed a strange colloquial response in America from those who claim a Latin American culture and heritage.

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O.J. Simpson and the Genius Criminal Mind

By David W. Boles on September 17, 2007 8:41 AM | 11 Comments | 2 TrackBacks
O.J. Simpson is back in our face again!

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Searching for Meaning and Relevance

By David W. Boles on September 14, 2007 9:35 AM | 18 Comments
When you do a search on the internet, are you more often looking for meaning or relevance? We search for: Meaning in others and relevance in our thoughts.

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The Semiotics of Dry Crying

By David W. Boles on September 13, 2007 9:28 AM | 11 Comments | 2 TrackBacks
One of the hardest tasks for an actor to complete every night on stage is realistic crying with tears and snotting and red eyes and pomegranate nose. The mark of the young and ineffectual actor -- 99% of them -- is trying to cry by faking. I call those fakers "Dry Criers" and they're easy to mark both on stage and in real life.

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Do Books Create Sound?

By David W. Boles on September 12, 2007 7:57 AM | 16 Comments
In a previous article -- Audio Books: Is Hearing Reading? -- we asked aloud if listening to a book with your ears provided an identical experience as reading one with your eyes.

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A Ground Zero Grave with No Headstone

By David W. Boles on September 11, 2007 7:52 AM | 17 Comments | 1 TrackBack
Are you burned out on 9/11? If so, is that a tremendous moral crime for which there is no remedy? How can we -- as a world of nations -- have so quickly become so tired and weary of an event that smothered the end of any sense of freedom we have left a mere six years ago? The bigger crime is an ongoing inexcusable wallowing mass of death and despair at "Ground Zero" that started as this:

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A Return to the Workhouse

By David W. Boles on September 10, 2007 10:30 AM | 22 Comments
When Ebenezer Scrooge wondered aloud in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" -- "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" -- in response to a request for a charitable donation, that inquiry should make us wonder today if, indeed, we should make a reformed visit to the workhouse ideal.

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What Makes Beliefs Brittle?

By David W. Boles on September 7, 2007 9:33 AM | 35 Comments | 2 TrackBacks
Belief systems give us comfort in times of dismay and provide us light in moments of darkness. Stories, songs, morality plays and images memorialize Beliefs in forms beyond the mind.

What then, I wonder, happens to Beliefs when they become brittle? By definition, Beliefs are required to be unbending and statutory, but we have all met broken people who have had their Belief system shattered. How do Beliefs become brittle instead of unbendable? Are broken Beliefs the result of a loss of faith? Or does the Belief itself crumble without the active participation of the Believer?

Last Call for Suicide on the Tappan Zee

By David W. Boles on September 5, 2007 6:27 AM | 10 Comments
In a remarkable move confirming the Tappan Zee bridge in New York is a perfect suicide machine -- over the last decade more than 25 people have leapt 138 feet in the air to find death in the Hudson River below -- the New York State Thruway Authority installed "suicide prevention phones" on each side of the bridge.


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Writing Four Books in Five Months

By David W. Boles on September 4, 2007 10:16 AM | 11 Comments | 6 TrackBacks
It has been a wild week and I am pleased to announce I will be writing three new books for Thomson/Cengage Publishing.

I recently finished my Google Apps Administrator Guide book for Thomson and we are now doing three more books together.

Two books will be published before the end of 2007 -- that means I will have written four books in five months for Thomson and while that is a witty and wacky writing pace, that's the publishing business: You're either wanted now -- RIGHT NOW! -- or you suffer in silence. 
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