May 2013
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Twitter Diplomacy
“I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea or as I call him ‘Kim’, to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose,” Rodman said on Twitter. He later called the tweet a direct response to a Seattle Times editorial that dared him to ask Kim for the release if the two are really buddies.
If you had told me that Dennis Rodman would become a self-appointed goodwill...
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April 2013
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The Decision
Let us be decent and honorable and do what we can to spare Jason Collins the burdens of history. Let us be humane and not make of him the vehicle of our hopes for a better world. Let us be, for lack of a better word, Christian enough not to make out of Collins’s undeniably brave decision to announce that he is gay the vessel into which we pour enough of our own precious tolerance to...
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WatchIn the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, our patriotic brethren at Fox show us how to stand up for our Constitutional rights. Or as Jon Stewart describes it, jettisoning the Bill of Rights like Han Solo dumping his cargo at the first sign of an Imperial Cruiser.
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Cultivate Your Curiosity.
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Season 6. AMC. 9:00 PM.
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We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principal goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
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How Disney Acquired Lucasfilm
One weekend last October, Robert Iger, chief executive officer of Walt Disney (DIS), sat through all six Star Wars films. He’d seen them before, of course. This time, he took notes. Disney was in secret negotiations to acquire Lucasfilm, the company founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas, and Iger needed to do some due diligence.
The movies reacquainted Iger with Luke Skywalker, the...
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The People's Critic
Moviegoing is basically a passive pastime. You buy the ticket, head into the theater, sit, behold, and leave — happy, sad, mad, moved, amped up, let down, confused. The movies happen to you. But Roger Ebert, who died yesterday at 70, happened to the movies and, by extension, he happened to us. For a quarter of a century, he sat across from Gene Siskel and changed the act of moviegoing and...
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Federal Judge Goes With Plan B
A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make “morning-after” emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age, while blasting top Obama administration officials for interfering with the process.
Read the full article here at Reuters
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Easy on the ears, soothing for the soul.
Stardust...
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Shallow Means, Deep Ends
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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Wise Words From The Greatest
I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn’t eat. Thought I’d put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, “We don’t serve niggers here.” I said, “That’s okay, I don’t eat ‘em.” But they put me...
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UN & Global Arms
Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?
No! It’s the United Nations passing a historic treaty.
To the surprise of many observers, apparently the international peace organization still exists
On Tuesday, the UN approved the first-ever treaty to regulate the $70 billion international arms trade industry. The treaty, which had 154 votes in favor, 3 against, and 21 abstentions (most notably major...
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Marriage Equality
With Malice toward none, & Charity for all.
#TeamBatmobile
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Life, Love, and Literature
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort.
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered.
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of...
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Kids & Drugs: The Rise of A.D.H.D. Diagnoses
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a steep rise in the number of kids being diagnosed with A.D.H.D.
Nearly 1 in 5 boys between the ages of 14-18, and almost 11% of all school-age children, have been diagnosed with the disorder. What is worse is that two-thirds of those diagnosed receive prescription stimulants for it such as Adderall and Ritalin. While the idea...
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Justin Timberlake: The 20/20 Experience (Album...
Consider ‘N Sync’s 2001 hit “Pop”, a defensive track co-written by Justin Timberlake that takes aim at boy-band haters. “All that matters is that you recognize that it’s just about respect,” he sings. The song was on ‘N Sync’s final album, Celebrity, which sold nearly two million copies in the U.S. in its first week— and by that point...
March 2013
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Sell Your Soul? Why not an IPO Instead.
Meet Mike Merrill, a 30-year-old-man who decided to sell his soul to investors at $1 a share. Each share would give an investor the opportunity to have a portion of the profits he would receive outside of his day job as a customer service representative. He would sell .9% of himself, while retaining the other 99.1%.
The twist? His shares would be non-voting, thus leaving his fate in the hands...
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Wise Words From a Decent Man
Words can be twisted into any shape.
Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul.
In the final analysis, words mean nothing.
The wisest man is the silent one.. Examine his actions.. Judge him by them.
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Congress Clears Way for Immigration Reform
Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Or maybe you can just polish a turd.
Following an embarrassing defeat at the polls in November, particularly due to the fast rising percentage of minorities that make up the electorate, it seems the Republicans learned in defeat that it is quite difficult to lure votes from the fasting growing demographic in the country by calling them illegal...
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North Korea Declares War
In the past few weeks, there has been a lot of clatter coming out of the Korean Peninsula, as Kim Jong Un, having failed to listen to the album Watch The Throne, has decided to throw racks at said throne.
When he first took over the country after the death of his father, Kim Jong Ill, there was hope that he would diverge from his father’s path and bring to North Korea the reforms it so...
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A New Seoul For South Korea
Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill architecture will be designing two eco-friendly skyscraper in Seoul South Korea dubbed the Dancing Dragon Towers. [[MORE]]These gorgeously designed towers are as smart as they are beautiful. Their reptilian-like cascading windows act as a working air circulation system. The building’s design allows the overlapping exterior wall system to create a...
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Original Gentleman: 21 Questions with J.Cole
Recently, New York Magazine, sat down for an interview with the one and only, and most talented young rapper in the game, J.Cole.
He gives his usual cache of insightful answers, from learning not to give money to panhandlers, to the guilt of finally earning money, to the most quotable portion of the interview, more specifically, his description of what his job entails.
Read the full interview...
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February 2013
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January 2013
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Wise Words From a Decent Man
Wise Words From a Decent Man
Either I go crazy or they stop acting so shady, lately I’ve been wanting yes’s and they keep giving me maybes.
