January 2012
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...”
– Isaac Asimov
December 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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“This Crowded Room” - Freedom or...
By The Numbers: The 2011 Primetime Emmys |... →
Number of Awards Handed Out Sunday Night: 25 Number of POC Winners: 0 Number of Individual Acting Nominees: 81 Number of POC Nominees: 6* * Idris Elba (Luther, The Big C) scored two nominations…
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August 2011
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FaceSpace - If Facebook and Myspace Merged - The... →
July 2011
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The new party of Reagan →
Nobody knows what Reagan, who died in 2004, would make of the current fight over the debt limit. But 100 years after Reagan’s birth, it’s clear that the Tea Party Republicans have little regard for the policies of the president they claim to venerate.
Tea Party Republicans call a vote to raise the debt ceiling a threat to their very existence; Reagan presided over 18 increases in the debt...
Tax cuts alone aren't solution →
“While I don’t especially like paying taxes, I also know they go toward making our city and our country a better place to live. Even the great icon of conservatism, Ronald Reagan, raised taxes when more revenue was needed. Brian Mulroney’s hated GST was a component that allowed the Chretien Liberals to balance the budget.
Yet to balance the budget the Tea Party demands only...
“Sunlight in a Jar” - The Lucksmiths
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June 2011
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May 2011
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Two words to put the Ruth Ellen Brosseau brouhaha... →
“Nor is the NDP the first Canadian political party to have seen a weak candidate elected on the strength of his or her political affiliation. The proof of this assertion, surely, is in the Conservative Party’s Alberta caucus.
Indeed, out here on the Great Plains of Alberta we not only elect unqualified and inexperienced candidates, as long as they’re some variety of...
March 2011
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February 2011
7 posts
Top Chef's Recipe for Gender Bias →
January 2011
15 posts
Gap Between Rich And Poor Named 8th Wonder Of The... →
“It’s breathtaking,” said Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, a longtime champion and benefactor of the rift’s conservation. “After all we’ve been through in recent years, there’s no greater privilege than watching it grow bigger and bigger each day. There may be a few naysayers who worry that if it gets any wider, the whole thing will collapse upon...
Why is Captain America ruling our screens and not... →
“Captain America already has a huge new movie, which flaunts the World War II setting in a kind of Private Ryan-style war movie with supervillains. And meanwhile, David E. Kelley shopped around a Wonder Woman TV pilot to every network, with no takers. (Although Kelley insists the show isn’t dead, and he’s going to try again.) And Entertainment Weekly had a huge feature a couple...
