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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... |
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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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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.
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Tom Cushing |
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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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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 |
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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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Meanwhile, back at the ranch ...
Anything I could write about the current state of the Presidential campaign would feel like piling-on, and the major issue in the US Senate derby seems to be whether the Repub... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 1, 2012 at 11:49 pm by Mike, a resident of the Alamo 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 VeepStakes: First, do no harm (who's your choice?)
The presumptive GOP Presidential nominee, Mr. Romney, is in the process of vetting potential presumptive running mates, using the title mantra as the campaign’s guide star. I... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 20, 2012 at 3:02 pm by underdog, a resident of another community |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Loans’ LIBORs Loused
Mention the term LIBOR in almost any group, and half will assume a speech impediment, a third will change the subject and the remainder will excuse themselves, eyes a-glaze. ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 19, 2012 at 11:47 am 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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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 |
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on Mar 1, 2012 at 1:37 pm by Dirk, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Prop 29 Fails to Cure Cancer, does not ensure World Peace!
Having recently tried to update a woefully stale TV viewing habit (I gave up after the untimely demise of Deadwood), I tried to get interested in Mad Men, starting with season... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jun 6, 2012 at 9:55 pm by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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What's in a Pronoun?
There may be no more loaded word in the English language than "you."
It can be a fond term of endearment, as in, let's see, the phrase "I'm So-o in love with You" crooned by ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 30, 2012 at 9:30 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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ObromneyCare, Part Deux: Estimation Boogaloo
Okay, where were we? After a description of the major features of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA for short, or ObromneyCare if you prefer), you've been p... |
Tom Cushing |
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on May 10, 2012 at 12:05 pm by Citizen Paine, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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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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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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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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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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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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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 |
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on Feb 21, 2012 at 8:45 am by cardinal, a resident of the Diablo 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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