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83Learning Tongue Twisters
In retrospect I now recognize just how precious tongue twisters are. There is no dishonor in failure and deep satisfaction in succeeding. It’s one of those wonderful games or activities where there are no winners and losers. In mathematical game theory, it’s known as a non-zero-sum game or, in every day parlance, a win-win game! Everyone profits – and, inevitably, there will be lots of laughter.
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72Love thy Neighbor: We are all Khaled Said
Christ's words, "Love thy Neighbor", provide deep insight into our relationship with each other and God and, it is argued, the notion that you or I are individuals that are entirely separate from each other and the world becomes an increasingly difficult notion to defend scientifically or, even spiritually, if you like. ``No man is an island``; it is as true literally, as it recognizable as a literary truth; but true heroes live, and all too often die, articulating this idea in their behavior.
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77Budweiser's Couple - Gay or Best Buds?
Budweiser will be congratulated or otherwise – depending on your point of view! They've just produced the first beer ad showing a gay soldier's romantic homecoming – or have they? There seems to be a lot of ambiguity in the commercial.
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69Keeping Secrets and A Genderless Baby
Sending out Emails after your child's birth is not unusual – but announcing that you are keeping the child's gender a secret is not the norm. But two parents issued such a missive believing that it is a statement about choice and freedom for their newborn. It appears to be part of an experiment to bring up a child as free of social pressure as possible with regard to gender stereotype.
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76Prohibition's Lessons and Gun Control
We’ve learned that a good law in a democracy depends on a large consensus – without that agreement, it will end up being judged as “bad”, whatever its intentions. It's important that the politicians and the rest of us recognize that, ideally, any changes to laws regarding guns enjoy broad popular support.
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80Censoring Skins and Censorship on TV
PTC’s complaints about Skins seem to mainly rest on the argument that statutes on pornography were broken by MTV and Viacom during the making of the show because some of the actors were minors. However, because of a legal gray area concerning censorship, I believe all complaints should be viewed as a shot across the bows that might be acknowledged by tweaking the script in some minor ways rather than something that actually threatens the show’s future. Ratings rather than politics will decide Sk
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67Nobel Peace Prize for Mark Zuckerberg & Wael Ghonim?
We are all Khaled Said is an historic document. It should be the part of the rationale for Mark Zuckerberg's name to join Wael Ghonim's as nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize. Facebook has emerged as a potent medium that allows people to persuade and change governments to be more representative of their aspirations. Social Media may succeed in bringing more peace to the world than achieved by any diplomat or politician.
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64Sarah Palin Refudiates Critics
At one time politicians would have thought that their political careers ended prior to Palin-like gaffes. Politicians with poor vocabularies and grammar would have had a hard time of it. And many instances of uttering factually inaccurate statements would not be considered helpful. However, these type of mistakes seem to endear Sarah Palin as she continues, unfazed, to refudiate her critics.
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58Time to Occupy The Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court is meant to symbolize "Equal Justice Under Law" and should be occupied. The excesses of the financial industry places unreasonable burdens on the middle class and future generations. The perpetrators remain unpunished because of either lack of resolve or proper laws to govern their behavior. As long as those on Wall Street and in the financial industries can behave as if they are not governed by proper rules, we should not expect any improvement in their behavior or ethics.
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60Family Home Movies
Few families had film archives in those days, and gazing at family films taken in the 1930s gave me rare insight into what life was like at that time and the three young sons my grandparents saw go off to war. Later, I would relish Kodak's yellow box arriving with a recently developed film of another chapter in our family's history.
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