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Do You Believe in the Scarlet Pumpkin?

By David W. Boles on October 31, 2008 8:01 AM | 38 Comments
We know a Scarlet Letter is the historical, puritanical, mark of an adulterer.  Do you find the modern day Maryland "Scarlet Pumpkin" below to be enough of a warning against pedophiles and violent sex offenders to be effective on Halloween eve?

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Sorry, But Thanks

By Gordon Davidescu on October 27, 2008 8:08 AM | 16 Comments
Gordon Davidescu wrote this article.

One day last week as I was waiting to go to the synagogue where I regularly go to services. I noticed a young woman standing across 96th street holding a cup of, what I assumed to be, coffee. I remember thinking to myself that because it was a Jewish holiday on that day, I was not able to buy myself my own cup of coffee and would have to accept a cup of instant coffee instead. I briefly looked at the cup of coffee cup and then looked back down at the street.

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Heroin Punks Getting Three Years a Bag

By David W. Boles on October 10, 2008 9:53 AM | 14 Comments
I was in a cab yesterday, and my driver pointed out a drug arrest happening across the street in the Jersey City Heights.  He was more interested in the bust than I was.  "There, see?" he asked.  "Three guys in handcuffs.  Seven cops and three unmarked cars pinning in the white car.  That was an undercover horse bust.  Big one.  You won't see those guys on the street again."

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Men in Cars Stalking Women

By David W. Boles on October 8, 2008 9:59 AM | 26 Comments
We know why men toss women into swimming pools, and we know why men have a DNA requirement to try to make women laugh, but what is it about men driving cars and harassing women on the street?  It seems as if the stereotypical wolf-whistle has moved from the sidewalk of a construction site and into the anonymous, mobile, safety of the driver's seat.

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Midwestern Muslims and Iowa Immigration

By David W. Boles on September 23, 2008 9:03 AM | 16 Comments
Yesterday, we investigated the failure of Nebraska's fiftieth out of fifty Safe Haven law to protect teenagers from dumping by misbegotten parents.  Today, we learn about another Midwestern mudfest flinging scorn and rage against Somali Muslims who wish to say evening prayers during work hours at a Grand Island, Nebraska meatpacking plant.  So far 86 people have been fired in this face off between commerce and religion. 

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Reading the Audience

By David W. Boles on September 10, 2008 6:55 AM | 10 Comments
If you've ever appeared before a live audience -- or if you've created something that was presented to a live audience for you -- you are well aware of the symbiotic power between performer and audience and you have learned to immediately recognize the subtle clues an audience provides to tell you if they're with you or not.  Getting them with you is hard; keeping them with you is harder.

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Comcast Kills the Internets

By David W. Boles on September 5, 2008 8:56 AM | 18 Comments | 1 TrackBack
I was a fan of Comcast for about five minutes until I learned this week that Comcast plans to kill the Internets by placing a cap on bandwidth.

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Business is Not Family

By David W. Boles on August 26, 2008 6:37 AM | 14 Comments
Historically, many businesses have started as family operations.  Everyone was blood related.  There was a clear chain of command and an unspoken plan for pressing down the power and handing over control of the company.

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One Bad Apple: Going App-less on the iPhone 3G

By David W. Boles on August 23, 2008 6:20 PM | 25 Comments
Apple has set forth upon us a bad iPhone 3G -- and if you dare to complain about it -- or find ways to hope to deal with the matter on the official Apple forums... you will be silenced with the deletion of your discussion thread.

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Death of a Slave as the New American Dream

By David W. Boles on August 20, 2008 6:28 AM | 21 Comments
Is this beautiful rendering of a "Death of a Slave" an erotic meeting of impermanence and inevitability -- or is it more a cold, moral homily, against the wages of living a sacred life?

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