March 2008 Archives

McMenamins and The Kennedy School

By Gordon Davidescu on March 31, 2008 7:10 PM | 17 Comments

Gordon Davidescu wrote this article.

When I was a kid and we took a long road trip from New Jersey to sunny Orlando, Florida for our first visit to Walt Disney World, one of my parents made an observation about strip malls. No matter where we went, it seemed, the stores were pretty much the same. They were the same on the outside and the same on the inside. What a peculiar thing, I thought. At home we had such stores as The Princeton Record Exchange and dozens of other small stores - owned and operated by individuals or small groups of people, not large corporations.

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American Hungering: Starving Freedom on Food Stamps

By David W. Boles on March 31, 2008 7:47 AM | 13 Comments

What happens to a free nation and a freedom of spirit when the economy is so bad families are forced to go on food stamps in order to survive? Freedom dies in growling stomachs.

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Out of the Ashes: Firing Up Blogging Burnout

By David W. Boles on March 28, 2008 8:36 AM | 69 Comments

If you write a personal blog -- are you now, or have you ever been -- a Burned Out Blogger? If so, how did you pull yourself from the ashes?

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Can Two Ones Become a Second?

By David W. Boles on March 27, 2008 8:58 AM | 12 Comments

Is it possible for two ones to ever become a second?

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Abusing Sexual Harassers

By David W. Boles on March 26, 2008 9:56 AM | 22 Comments

I was shocked to hear a story about alleged sexual harassment in the workplace. I'm curious if you have heard similar horror tales -- or if this incident was just an unfortunate, hoary, happenstance.

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A Movable Faith: Taslima Tempts Fate in Europe

By Dananjay Anandan on March 25, 2008 6:58 PM | 8 Comments

Dananjay Anandan wrote this article.

In exile from Bangladesh since 1994, Taslima Nasreen lived in many countries before finding refuge in India.

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Tarnishing the Jewel of National Public Health: Exempting Mandatory Childhood Vaccinations

By David W. Boles on March 25, 2008 8:17 AM | 19 Comments

We do not live in a time of plagues. Our children are healthy. We -- as a world of nations -- came together in a herculean, unselfish, effort to successfully eradicate Smallpox from the face of the earth through mandatory vaccinations even though, at times, those vaccinations caused death and illness in those who got shot or inadvertently exposed.

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Android Assassins: Inventing the Death Wish

By David W. Boles on March 24, 2008 9:05 AM | 6 Comments

Have we met our match in inventing our own assassins? Is it part of our evolutionary, technical DNA, to foster devices that intend to kill us? Have we have created a death wish covenant with technology?

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Testing Faith in the Public Square: Got God?

By David W. Boles on March 21, 2008 9:18 AM | 17 Comments

Do you believe in God?

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Starbucks in Declination: Brewing Trouble, Not Coffee

By David W. Boles on March 20, 2008 8:03 AM | 33 Comments

Is Starbucks a brand in declination and a failing business? Has the reality of paying $8.00 for a latte finally hit bean bottom of a pitless pocketbook as people realize they can no longer afford fancy coffees if they can't first pay their mortgages and mounting credit card bills?

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Marlee Matlin Dancing Deaf with the Stars

By David W. Boles on March 19, 2008 9:08 AM | 9 Comments

Marlee Matlin -- a gorgeous and talented 43-year-old Deaf actress and Academy Award winner -- made her debut last night on Dancing with the Stars, but few people realize the magnitude and the magnificence of her accomplishment.

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Blind and Black and the Governor of New York

By David W. Boles on March 18, 2008 9:04 AM | 25 Comments

Yesterday, David Paterson was sworn in as the 55th governor of the State of New York. Governor Paterson is also first Blind and Black man to hold that high office.

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Gangland Holiday: Happy Pinching Day!

By David W. Boles on March 17, 2008 9:27 AM | 6 Comments | 1 TrackBack

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Will you be drinking into drunkenness today?

Are you wearing green right now?

Will you be pinching those who aren't wearing green?

Do you even participate in this non-holiday celebration?

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Contextual Texting: ou812 prolly 153 2mr 4eva

By David W. Boles on March 14, 2008 6:59 AM | 44 Comments

Can you decipher the gibberish in the title of today's post? If you under 15-years-old you certainly can. If you're over 40 -- you might need a clue.

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Spitzer's Hooker Scandal: The Governor's Girl Revealed

By David W. Boles on March 13, 2008 10:08 AM | 39 Comments | 1 TrackBack

We now have a face for "Kristin" -- Ashley Youmans (aka Ashley Alexandra Dupré), a 22-year-old, fresh-faced, New Jersey nymph -- to go with our Spitzer Hooker Scandal.

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A Meme of Belonging: The Twenty-Five Percenters

By David W. Boles on March 12, 2008 7:37 AM | 24 Comments

With the Governor of New York spending $80,000 on hookers -- should we be surprised to learn 25% of teenage American girls are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, genital herpes and trichomoniasis? If you're a Black female teenager, your infection rate is 50%.

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Client 9: The Empire State Governor John

By David W. Boles on March 11, 2008 10:56 AM | 22 Comments | 2 TrackBacks

Eliot Spitzer -- Client Nine -- is now forever known as "The Empire State Governor John" -- after getting caught up in an FBI/IRS sex ring sting where it was discovered he appeared to be cheating on the wishes of his wife while smashing the dreams of his three daughters and vetoing voter faith by simply seeking sexual release with a call girl.

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I am My Own God, Centerless Grinding and Why Crowds are Not Wise

By David W. Boles on March 10, 2008 8:31 AM | 26 Comments | 1 TrackBack

Crowds are not wise.

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The Sum of Life Equals Three

By David W. Boles on March 7, 2008 7:46 AM | 30 Comments

Can you sum up your life in three words?

Freud was a fan of the power of three. Here's my try: Lonesome, yearning, sharing. What are your three words and why did you choose them?

Big Brother 9: Shitty Shorts and Poopy Panties

By David W. Boles on March 6, 2008 9:19 AM | 9 Comments | 1 TrackBack

I am a fan of Big Brother

on CBS television even though the "reality show" is filled with miscreants, the dishonorable, and the verifiably wacky.

Each season of Big Brother descends deeper into debauchery and a cruel malfeasance blasted on everyone within eyeshot and earshot of each other -- and while one recoils from the idea of actually watching the disassembly of lives in real time -- one cannot help but find delight in the evolutionary machinations of a house full of people fighting each other for a $500,000.00 USD prize.

This year's Big Brother is the first "winter" edition, but that doesn't mean the show, or the people starring in it, are any better than the previous summertime versions.

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Sometimes to Win is to Lose

By David W. Boles on March 5, 2008 9:19 AM | 20 Comments | 1 TrackBack

Hillary Clinton is Karl Rove in a dress.

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Victoria's Secret: Sexy or Slutty?

By David W. Boles on March 4, 2008 8:17 AM | 24 Comments

Victoria's Secret has an image problem.

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One in 99: Number One as the Prison Nation

By David W. Boles on March 3, 2008 8:14 AM | 14 Comments

The United States is now the number one nation of the incarcerated in the world. The Pew Center on the States released a new report that one in 99 Americans is a prisoner in the nation's overcrowded jail and prison system.

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