Tag: society
member name: Rory M.
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June 20, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
Governments have been on a prolonged orgy of deregulation and privatization of services that had previously been delivered under strict controls or public ownership.
The perfect example of this is the . . .
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July 09, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
The trend in politics today is to reduce, in many cases eliminate, government services. This trend reflects the consensus amongst the population that government is inefficient, too costly, burdensome, . . .
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July 29, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
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December 09, 2006 11:16 AM EST --
Jimmy Carter’s latest book (Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid) is causing quite a stire as various defenders of Israel scream blue-murder (or at least hint of anti-Semitism) and recently triumphant . . .
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July 14, 2007 12:51 AM EDT --
Imagine that you woke up tomorrow morning with little memory of what had come before. Let's say you still knew who you were, how to go about most of your daily tasks, but could recall almost nothing . . .
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September 08, 2008 01:33 AM EDT --
The American Heritage Dictionary defines a redneck as follows:
A slang term, usually for a rural white southerner who is politically conservative, racist, and a religious fundamentalist. This . . .
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February 25, 2009 07:58 PM EST --
Dictionary.com defines socialism as follows:
1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of . . .
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April 10, 2009 08:25 PM EDT --
Canadian political scandals rarely receive much ink or airtime from the American media. I'm sure the reaction of most Americans to any inquiry as to the "Mulroney-Schreiber Affair" . . .
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August 07, 2007 02:01 PM EDT --
I was pondering the question which serves as the title of this piece, after participating in another conversation string here on Gather in which the idea of "common sense" was thrown out.
My . . .
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August 11, 2007 09:52 PM EDT --
The word "money" has uncertain etymological origins, though it is probably derived from the Latin (of course) moneta which was a title given to the Roman god Juno whose temple was near to the . . .
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September 10, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
"Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
Getting back to nature. Living off the land. Embracing the natural world and sacredness of our Earth Mother.
These concepts have been very popular in recent decades. Going back to the 1960s, people have . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . .
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July 05, 2007 11:32 PM EDT --
Mandy knew to the minute when she had first started to become suspicious: 12:43 p.m. last November 8th, a Thursday. She was running late, having intended to take a short lunch break. The sales guys were . . .
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July 18, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
"I know that God is always on the side of right; my concern is not whether God is on our side but whether or not we are on God's side."
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November 19, 2007 02:01 PM EST --
The knee-jerk answer to this question, the one almost everyone gives without pausing even a micro-second to think about their response, the one on many people's lips much of the time, the one . . .
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November 05, 2008 02:24 AM EST --
The election of 2008 has already gone a long, long way to restoring the dream and the amazing reality of the United States of America. It has done this in numerous ways.
Race Relations: . . .
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September 16, 2007 02:23 PM EDT --
We've all heard of WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants), or YUPpies (Young Urban Professionals) or of DINKs (Dual-Income, No Kids).
Well, I have a new social acronym, one I've created . . .
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June 28, 2009 12:14 AM EDT --
Michael Jackson and I were about the same age, he being a few months older than I am. Since I was a young child I have been hearing about Michael Jackson, about his impressive musical career, his . . .
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July 08, 2007 12:13 PM EDT --
The mid-life crisis has long been widely recognized as a common stage of maturity and growth in the lives of humans.
There comes a time when a person recognizes that the time remaining to them is likely . . .
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