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Health Care Reform: It is a Lie
Yep it’s a lie. After the summer of discontent, and the President’s speech last night (with it’s heckling) I’ve written up my thoughts on the current health care debate. Health Care Reform: It is a Lie I wish we were talking about the issu...
Agenda for America
Agenda for America: After Quantanamo lets make Jet travel safe again. The LAT reported that 208 passengers have been convicted of terrorist activity under the Patriot Act over the past few years, often for raising their voices to Flight Attendants....
Don’t jump to conclusions…
It’s human nature; we find the quickest way to apply a map to a simple fact and extrapolate from it grand conclusions. The biologists say it’s evolutionary. It’s hard wired in us, they say, and it’s part of what makes us greater than the apes...
Old media brands are the answer to the “cesspool”? Naw…
Buzzing around the web has been the story that Google CEO Eric Schmidt called the internet a “Cesspool”. Cnet reported that “the Internet is a "cesspool" where false information thrives...Schmidt gave the magazine publishers hope for their futu...
The conformity of non-uniformity - Our day at the Apple store
After having someone's phone number ported to our iPhone, and spending the night getting it fixed, we think about the homogeny of the rebellious Apple store employee...
