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The Miss Universe Pageant–Eighty Contestants from Eighty Countries, And They All Look the Same
I was watching the Miss Universe Pageant the other night. It was a brief break from the usual weekend activities and a respite from the world of background checks and corporate research. I came in around the middle of it, or what I thought to be the middle of it, when they weeded it down [...]
Corporal Punishment for White Collar Crimes and Those Who Betray the Public Trust
Anyone with eyeballs and a set of ears has either scene or heard at least one of a dozen news announcements that the FBI will be investigating IndyMac Bank for fraudulent practices. CNN writes that the government is looking into the bank engaged in fraud while granting mortgages to high risk borrowers. IndyMac is listed [...]
The Death of Satire…the New Yorker Obama Cover
It’s hard to miss all the controversy raging over the New Yorker Magazine cover, depicting Barack Obama as a flag burning Muslim and his wife, Michele, as an Ak-47 toting radical guerrilla. The media is apoplectic. Pundits and politicos are practically dripping with self-righteousness. As I sit and write this, Bill Bennett blunders about its [...]
The Soul of the Machine
Automated Content Will Unmake Existence By Jason Lee Miller – Fri, 07/11/2008 – 12:53pm. Hug a writer today Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts—those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence—then why bother existing? For the entire article go [...]
Shelly Berman and Lily Tomlin Are Finally Off the Cell Phone
Californians are finally acquiescing to the new laws prohibiting one handed cell phone use in the car. California Moves to Curb Bad Habits of Motorists By JENNIFER STEINHAUER LOS ANGELES — On any given day on a California freeway, it is not uncommon to see a young woman, phone cradled against one ear, carefully painting [...]