Tag: society
member name: Rory M.
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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, . . . more
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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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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 . . . more
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July 25, 2007 10:26 PM EDT --
In mid June I began a project I called The Gather 30 Day Countdown.
We have all seen fellow Gatherers get disillusioned, enraged, outraged, plain old pissed off and sign off the site permanently . . . more
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August 05, 2007 04:52 PM EDT --
Up here in "The Great White North" we have a national, publicly owned broadcaster called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, or CBC. This is a public broadcaster that does earn some of its . . . more
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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 . . . more
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October 22, 2007 07:56 PM EDT --
Language is the main tool we have for expressing our thoughts, ideas, feelings, hopes, dream and fears to one another. Each of us has our own distinct history, frame of reference, point of view, . . . more
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April 08, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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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 . . . more
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November 17, 2007 05:53 PM EST --
"No good deed goes unpunished."
"Help someone out and you get screwed every time."
"Nice guys finish last."
We have many such cliches that reinforce . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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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July 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . . more
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November 14, 2007 10:37 PM EST --
Here is the big debate that no one is really engaging the public in, and no politician will dare. While the religious right wing in America has forced the abortion debate onto the agenda, and the . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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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