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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... |
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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 |
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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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Bringing up Bibi
I recall the foreboding I felt in 1967, at the prospect of a war between tiny Israel and its Arab neighbors. It seemed impossible for these latter-day Davids to defeat the Ar... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Sep 20, 2011 at 11:39 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Driving the Hippo
When I was a cub employee at a Fortune 50 company on the Other Coast, a mentor once told me: “Sprout, this company is like a huge hippopotamus, floating slowly down a lazy tro... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Sep 15, 2011 at 12:47 pm by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Where have you gone, Butch and Sundance?
One of the commenters in the Religion and Politics series calls himself “Normal mainstream republican,” a title that might as well have read “Endangered Species.” He got me... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Sep 8, 2011 at 12:58 pm by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Religion and Politics, Part 1 (uh-oh)
America is a nation founded in major part by refugees to whom religious expression was important enough to risk the perils of an ocean voyage and brave the challenges of fro... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Aug 19, 2011 at 8:19 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Just who IS this Obama guy, anyway?
It’s tempting to begin this week’s epistle with an inquiry about whether anybody feels better about last week’s DC debacle, from an investor’s vantage fully 15% below where yo... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Aug 11, 2011 at 5:41 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Pretending to resolve a make-believe crisis in a way that nobody can understand
Is everybody happy now? Relieved anyway, because we dodged a bullet, forged a compromise and snatched victory from the jaws of default? Does it make any difference:
- tha... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Aug 8, 2011 at 12:57 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Ike’s Farewell, Revisited
I recently came across President Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the nation, circa 1961, on a Great Speeches CD. It’s impressive in its predictive power and in its moderatio... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Aug 2, 2011 at 3:57 pm by Mark Patrick Brown, a resident of another community |
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It’s Not Your Founding Fathers’ First Amendment
I have always had profound respect for the First Amendment’s genius, considering it the most fundamental expression of America’s respect for individual freedom. It guards u... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 29, 2011 at 4:23 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Wealth, unions, the beleaguered middle class and the last cookie
As the story goes, a unionized public employee, a middle manager, and a Wall Street CEO are seated at a table, with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO takes 11 cookies, looks at ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 14, 2011 at 3:50 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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What price retribution?
Some interesting internal conversations occur when there’s tension between two competing beliefs inside any one person’s head. For the many Californians who support both the ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 13, 2011 at 7:34 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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