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Brill’s Pill, Distilled
I’ve admired Steven Brill since our much shaggier days; his early, spot-on exposee of the Teamsters was an act of journalistic courage. He has recently faced an even more form... |
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on Mar 28, 2013 at 5:17 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Your Hopes for the Pope?
“May God forgive you!” were the first words spoken by Pope Francis, to the conclave of Cardinals that had just elected him Pontiff. Although that may not have been any more t... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Mar 28, 2013 at 6:53 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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China’s Other Hobby
News that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has been seeking to liberate data from all manner of American computing systems has dominated the high-tech news this week. I’m... |
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on Mar 7, 2013 at 10:31 pm by Dave, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Let's go to The Hap! (oh baby)
Well, you can run it, you can jump it,
You can sniff and you can dump it, at The Hap.
The Park is open for the season,
There be chasin’, there be teasin’, at The Hap.
Co... |
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on Mar 1, 2013 at 1:43 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Valentine’s week: spit and vinegar?
Romantic that I am during this week devoted to love -- set between the birthday celebrations of our two greatest statesmen -- I was hoping for a thaw in the chilly conjugal re... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Feb 20, 2013 at 7:00 am by Seuss Apologia, a resident of another community |
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The Rise of the Drones
If you had reliable intelligence on the location of an Al Qaeda lieutenant in remote Pakistan, and a Hellfire-equipped drone handy, would you kill him with it? What if he was... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Feb 9, 2013 at 7:16 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Stats or Stories?
"Human beings," a famous paleontologist once said, "are the primates who tell stories." Indeed, as we learn more about tool use and moral behavior as practiced by other specie... |
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on Feb 8, 2013 at 8:20 pm by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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The Details: Devils or Angels?
Last week, we learned that there is, indeed, now a fundamental right for individuals to keep and bear arms, supplied by the US Supreme Court in 2008 and 2010 (the precedents, ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Feb 4, 2013 at 11:54 pm by Dave, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Absolute, on the rocks
Wow – and I’m referring not to the privately paid-for Inaugural gown, which was stunning enough, but did anyone happen to catch the actual Inaugural speech – especially since ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jan 28, 2013 at 6:07 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Mudbath, Redux?
Well, I was all set to write something about Executive Orders, and how there have been almost 14,000 of them -- hoping to comfort the nervous and/or trigger-happy. Those Orde... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jan 25, 2013 at 3:46 pm by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Solving Medicare: Short and Long-term
On the assumption, perhaps dubious, that sanity may prevail and the House will take the debt-ceiling hostage gun from its own head, let’s look forward to other matters. I jus... |
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on Jan 15, 2013 at 8:42 am by Citizen Paine, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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2012: The Year in Verse
-- with apologies all around.
'Tis more or less New Year's, and all 'round the 'Ville,
You will now be subjected to bad dogger-el.
The year just completed we'll stumbl... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jan 8, 2013 at 6:47 am by Anonymous, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Horrific Toll. Simple Truth.
With the ancient Mayans now universally exposed as bad-at-math, it falls to me to write this week’s column. It will be brief, but heart-felt, and, I suspect, not uncontrovers... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 26, 2012 at 11:13 am by cardinal, a resident of the Diablo neighborhood |
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RC Holiday Bonus: Vote for the Best Fiscal Ciffhanger!
If you'll return with us now to the tales of yesterweek, you may recall that the Concord Coalition's game of Principles and Priorities invites players to resolve the Fiscal ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 23, 2012 at 10:41 am by The AlaMojos, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Food Stamps Food Fight
As I wandered the web a few days ago, this dust-up between CNN correspondent Soledad O’Brien and Senator Jeff Sessions caught my ear: http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 19, 2012 at 7:08 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Squaring the Pentagon
I think we can all agree that the single most fundamental duty of government is to provide for the national defense, from which all else flows. It is a testament to the succe... |
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on Dec 12, 2012 at 1:31 pm by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Fiscal Cliff-diving: Play the Principles and Priorities Game (with Prizes!)
Okay, we all know that Congress is in disrepute with The Electorate -- otherwise, why would we have returned so many Incumbents to their seats in the Capitol? We also harbor ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 3, 2012 at 11:24 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Belly Button Lint
It’s navel gazing season again, as it is in the wake of every general election. Both sides are analyzing the results of this month’s electoral festivities, from very differen... |
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on Dec 1, 2012 at 9:24 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Of Petraeus and Portia
This has been a big week for empathy in my household -- starting with the elections, as we watched those who lost bear-up bravely under crushing disappointments. My week a... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Nov 15, 2012 at 8:07 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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The ObamaNation
Here are some immediate thoughts arising out of last evening’s festivities – the night ended earlier than I had feared it might; that said, it takes time to formulate useful, ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Nov 10, 2012 at 12:27 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Debate 3: Horses and Tumult and Barnum – Oh My!
The “miscellaneous impressions” format worked so well last week in promoting a searching policy conversation -- let’s try it again.
1 -- The overriding theme of this debate... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Nov 4, 2012 at 8:31 am by cardinal, a resident of the Diablo neighborhood |
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FEDs vs. Frankenstorm
I’m not a big devotee of conspiracy theories, human-or-divinely inspired. People are generally unable to either collaborate adequately or keep a secret, and my Deity acts wit... |
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on Nov 3, 2012 at 4:27 pm by Dave, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Debate 2 Recap: the Rumpus on the Campus, or The Brawl at Town Hall
Here are some miscellaneous impressions from the rancorous second presidential debate at Hofstra U. this week. I suspect that you may want to add a few of your own.
1 --... |
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on Oct 24, 2012 at 9:07 pm by Unworthy petty partisan, a resident of the San Ramon neighborhood |
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A few final thoughts on the A’s, and a Polls Update
Baseball season came to a bittersweet end last Thursday evening, as the A’s bowed-out of MLB’s post-season tournament – three-games-to-two to the Tigers. Thus ended, for now,... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 17, 2012 at 2:26 pm by cardinal, a resident of the Diablo neighborhood |
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First Debate Recap: Christmas in October
As much as I regret the necessity, I suppose it’s time to climb down off my American League West Division Champion Oakland Athletics-induced euphoria and comment on the First ... |
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on Oct 11, 2012 at 7:15 am by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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