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Category Archives: Current Affairs

Thank you, Steve

Updated October 5, 2011: Steve Jobs has died. Rest in peace and thank you once again. Why say “thank you” to a CEO, especially when so many corporate executives these days deserve scorn instead of praise? Outgoing Apple CEO Steve Jobs gets my thanks because he has helped me in a number of ways. My first …

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Compromise and other dirty words

I listened to both President Obama’s and House Speaker Boehner’s speeches tonight. Both of them said that the United States can’t be allowed to default. Both of them said that the government needs to cut spending. Both of them said that they don’t want the middle class and poor to suffer at the hands of …

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Like a pie in the face…

It’s hard not to follow the news these days without getting depressed. Journalism scandals. Politicians playing chicken with bankruptcy. Borders going the way of Licorice Pizza. It feels like getting hit in the face with a pie. Come to think of it, a pie would taste pretty good right now. Chocolate silk. So, what does …

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The freedom to complain

When I was at the mall today, I saw a man with an anti-Obama protest banner. Judging from the things he was complaining about, it seemed like he was a disappointed liberal. So now, we have people on the left as unhappy with President Obama as people on the right. Talk about bringing the country …

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Amazon’s scumbag move

I’ve been an Amazon Associate for about as long as I had my Web site. So, I wasn’t happy that they cancelled my contract simply because my governor signed a bill into law. To be fair, other special interests have used, for a lack of a better term, extortion to convince voters to go their …

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