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LinkedIn Creates Circles

By David W. Boles on November 7, 2008 8:32 AM | 16 Comments
I believe in the power of circles.  I believe in mending broken circles.  I believe in creating new arcs that lead to closing circles.  When I was invited this week to become a member of LinkedIn, I was wary at first, because I do not like social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace because showboating and friends-gathering is more valued than finding information and tending intimate circles. LinkedIn is unique.  LinkedIn is clean and cogent.  LinkedIn is about creating business contacts -- and the whole idea behind the service is you only add people to your network that you already know.  You can check out my LinkedIn profile -- and add me to your network if you know me -- by touching the button below.

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What Must Be Won

By David W. Boles on November 3, 2008 7:50 AM | 34 Comments
We are on a historic precipice of discovery or dismay.  The stakes have never been higher in my lifetime for the preservation of freedom against the epic oppression of the human spirit.  Will we stand and fight?  Or will we allow the good of us to be pushed over the cliff, yet again, by those filled with deception, viciousness and hatred?

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The Human Shame of Proposition Two

By David W. Boles on October 29, 2008 8:17 AM | 17 Comments
Do farm animals have rights?  Do they deserve legal protection during their lives before they meet their deaths on your dinner table?  In California, Proposition 2 is November 4 ballot initiative -- better known as the "Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act" -- and I wonder why we even need to provide that protection and why we don't naturally have it in us to humanely tend those that feed so many as part of our basic human nature.

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Our Moral Genetic Code: Religious Transcendentalism and Scientific Empiricism

By David W. Boles on October 23, 2008 9:26 AM | 10 Comments
In a fascinating essay published in The Atlantic in 1998, Edward O. Wilson digs into us to try to understand -- The Biological Basis of Morality -- and he leavens our understanding of faith and facts by pitting religious transcendentalism against scientific empiricism.  Wilson argues, in a thought-provoking and wide-ranging article, that the fate of the human condition rests in tempering a harmony between those opposite, and irreconcilable, philosophies.

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Troubled Teens? Dump Them in Nebraska!

By David W. Boles on September 22, 2008 6:47 AM | 33 Comments
The great state of Nebraska is learning the hard way -- in vicious examples -- of the dire importance of precision in the law.  The Cornhusker State is dealing with the humiliating dumping of teenagers under their new "Safe Haven" -- a law written so broadly that any minor child is eligible for abandonment into state care -- without any legal or financial repercussion for the parent or custodian.

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Do We Love Pets More than People?

By David W. Boles on August 12, 2008 9:46 AM | 18 Comments
Dealing with the death of a pet is, for some people, an event from which they never recover.  Where once we just buried pets in the backyard under a foot of dirt -- or dumped the carcass in the trash bin like garbage--many now honor their deceased pets with cremation, mausoleums, headstones and other burial rites that were formerly reserved in the domain of people.

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The Danger of Celebrity Twinning

By David W. Boles on August 8, 2008 8:34 AM | 10 Comments
Lisa Marie Presley -- the single spawm of King Elvis -- announced this week she is pregnant with twins.

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Marrying an Ugly Girl

By David W. Boles on August 7, 2008 6:51 AM | 12 Comments
I was riding on a dollar van yesterday -- you pay a local step van driver to sweep you up and down the streets so you don't have to walk -- and I overheard a conversation between a wrinkled and crusty old man and pock-faced younger boy:  "Marry an ugly girl," the old man said in a heavy Spanish accent, "and you'll be happy the rest of your life because she'll be grateful for the attention and content with the ring on her finger."

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From Seattle Slicker to New York Vagabond

By Gordon Davidescu on June 12, 2008 6:43 PM | 15 Comments
Gordon Davidescu wrote this article.

Sometime around the middle of last August, I realized that I had to move away from Seattle and get back to New York City. I could hear the words of none other than David W. Boles from a few years ago; this is more curious because I have never heard his voice. He wrote me then, when I was first moving out here, to tell me that it was just going to be a matter of time before I came back. Well I am certainly glad that we didn't make a money wager on that because it was only a couple of years later when those words began to come true.

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Loving Electricity as Jersey City Melts

By David W. Boles on June 11, 2008 7:55 AM | 18 Comments
Jersey City is melting!

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