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Inclusion or Extraction?
This week’s column is late – for several reasons. (On) first, baseball intervened, and I spent four glorious days in the Arizona sun with my daughter. As we watched our belo... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Mar 19, 2012 at 8:13 pm by underdog, a resident of another community |
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The Power of Appropriate Apology
There's an old story that I've heard often enough that it may be true -- it concerns a law student who had to bring her 8 year-old son to contracts class one morning. The sub... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Mar 16, 2012 at 5:50 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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College: the best seven years of your life?
Among the various incendiary claims that ignited a particularly conflagratory week on the campaign trail, was one that bears upon post-secondary education in these United Stat... |
Tom Cushing |
906 |
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on Mar 1, 2012 at 1:37 pm by Dirk, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Coming to grips with the contraception kerfuffle; and Colvin v. DSK
I have been trying to sort out the Great Contraception/Religious Liberties/Women’ Health blemish that has erupted recently. That’s not as easy a task as it ought to be, becau... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Mar 1, 2012 at 9:23 am by C. R. Mudgeon, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Just Like a Train-wreck
A check-in is due to the slow-motion train wreck by which the GOP Faithful have been eat, err … vetting their candidates. It really has been a fascinating study in political... |
Tom Cushing |
842 |
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on Feb 21, 2012 at 8:45 am by cardinal, a resident of the Diablo neighborhood |
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Halftime
To paraphrase Clint Eastwood's raspy Super Bowl ad for an Italian car company: “It’s halftime in California.” As reported elsewhere hereabouts, the monumental struggle betwee... |
Tom Cushing |
704 |
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on Feb 10, 2012 at 2:05 pm by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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The Hayden Bill, the Governor and the least among us
Please Note: I was all ready to opine on the depleted state of the GOP aspirants, and how quickly Obama has won me back – and then THIS happened in Sacramento. While I promis... |
Tom Cushing |
1008 |
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on Feb 1, 2012 at 12:16 pm by San Ramon Oberver, a resident of the San Ramon neighborhood |
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Of Downers and Coddled Cattle
Lost behind yesterday’s sexier headlines about the Supreme Court’s unanimous privacy ruling on warrantless electronic surveillance, was the setback they dealt California’s unh... |
Tom Cushing |
681 |
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on Jan 24, 2012 at 5:22 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Who’s minding the Fed?
You are invited this week to step into my way back machine, and, if you dare, listen-in on the Fed’s Open Market Committee deliberations, circa 2006. There, the best and brigh... |
Tom Cushing |
730 |
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on Jan 18, 2012 at 4:43 pm by CDSI Research, a resident of another community |
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A Train to Nowhere?
I am generally a fan of massive public works projects. BART and the Golden Gate and Bay bridges locally, the space program and the interstate highway system are all examples ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jan 13, 2012 at 7:21 am by Dick K, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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A few thoughts on restoring the middle class
Last week, I complained that none of the candidates for the highest office in the land are talking about what really ails the country – the steady decline of the middle class,... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jan 12, 2012 at 3:38 pm by nanna, a resident of the Walnut Creek neighborhood |
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Is Violence Falling Out of Fashion?
As the global village binds itself ever more closely, it’s difficult to avoid media coverage of anything that “sells newspapers,” in whatever form you actually now get your cu... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 31, 2011 at 8:36 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Thoughts About Iraq: Is there a way to feel good about it?
Like most Americans, I saw footage of the last Americans loading out of Iraq with relief and pride in our troops’ ability to fight a hostile enemy in a worse environment, half... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 28, 2011 at 12:04 pm by American, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Does Race Still Matter in the 2012 Presidential Sweeps?
I predict that this week’s epistle will cause a bit of a ruckus. I’m not sure, though, since I have been surprised on several occasions already over these twenty-some weeks. ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 19, 2011 at 1:07 pm by Sam, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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It’s not your rich uncle’s 1%
What’s the first image that pops into your head when you think of the super-rich? Is it a mustachioed Monopoly card personage, a Thomas Nast cartoon fat cat, Bernie Madoff? ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 18, 2011 at 10:34 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Razing Cain?
The misbehaviors of politicians are the most predictable entertainments since the invention of comedy. Although the venal instincts of our would-be ruling class run a broad g... |
Tom Cushing |
792 |
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on Dec 5, 2011 at 12:51 pm by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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The Great American Shake-out
As the Congressional Super-Committee blunders toward stalemate, one has to wonder what this latest demonstration of the federal government's wretched inability to govern porte... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 1, 2011 at 2:10 pm by Fred, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Kicking cans, or kicking cans?
Observing political jargon is a fascinating business, as lawmakers struggle to find ways to frame issues their way, and appeal to their respective bases. Pithy terms like “jo... |
Tom Cushing |
765 |
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on Nov 22, 2011 at 12:18 am by Reaity, a resident of the San Ramon neighborhood |
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Business: too big to succeed?
Item: Grocery chain manager calls the cops on pregnant couple, with small child, who forgot to pay for a sandwich. Adults are hauled-off to jail; child placed in protective c... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Nov 5, 2011 at 9:53 am by American, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Where IS the beef?
Wendy’s hamburger chain is trying to revive its classic ad campaign, and it poses The inquiry we need to be making of our leaders.
The fundamental problem that ails this ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 20, 2011 at 6:12 pm by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Religion and Politics III: Foreign Policy.
Well, this may be a mercifully brief edition, as I’ve been basking in the green Sierra. My overheated synapses were gloriously sanctified in the restorative waters of Huntingt... |
Tom Cushing |
800 |
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on Oct 12, 2011 at 10:05 pm by Normal mainstream republican, a resident of the San Ramon neighborhood |
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Religion and Politics II, Domestic Policy
A high school acquaintance recently surfaced on my Facebook. He is currently the minister to a so-called 'subversive' Lutheran congregation in the east. When I inquired about... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 12, 2011 at 9:21 pm by Normal mainstream republican, a resident of the San Ramon neighborhood |
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The Berkeley Bake-sale Blues
The world needs a Berkeley. From the Free Speech Movement (FSM) days of Mario Savio and many others, this Bay Area burg has been synonymous with Progressive politics. The camp... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 12, 2011 at 9:14 pm by Equality for all, a resident of the San Ramon neighborhood |
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A Butterfly’s Hurricane?
As the saying goes, when a butterfly flaps its wings in Thailand, the wind blows in Michigan. In other words, everything is connected to everything else in the natural world.... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 12, 2011 at 3:58 pm by Hal, a resident of another community |
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There's something happening here
With apologies to the Buffalo Springfield, what it is really Ain�t exactly clear. What we know is that thousands of disaffected, mostly young people have descended on lower... |
Tom Cushing |
857 |
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on Oct 5, 2011 at 12:27 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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