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Welcome to my world
There are times when my brain screams me awake or won't even let me sleep because of a mental errand I forgot to run to its conclusion. For this and a few others reasons I'll unveil over time, I...
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Hillary: Making history takes time
Let me start by saying that being an unemployed journalist has given me a longed-for political freedom. I am one of those weirdos who doesn't believe journos should be directly involved with political...
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Game, set, match
This has to have been the world's longest political tennis match between Barack and Hillary. And just when it seemed like we'd have to go to a tiebreaker, John Edwards hands Barack a baseball bat to...
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The fierce urgency of now
Today's title comes courtesy of Sen. Barack Obama, but it speaks more about the 18-30 year-olds who support him than why he's running for president.And it says why he has a good chance of winning in...
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Excellent NYT story on jobless
This exercise in job hunting in midlife is for the birds. Half the time, the contact people never send you a "You suck. We picked somebody else" letter. So you get stuck in this wallflower limbo and...
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Oh no, not the gender card again
A friend recently wrote on another website that Hillary's supporters, like Geraldine Ferraro, are mad because they believe the media's in Obama's pocket and everybody is sexist.Mad ain't the word. This...
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Manchurian Candidate redux?
Wow.If you read my earlier post on the subject, I was willing to offer a historic exit strategy to the Clinton campaign based on her ground-breaking run for the White House.I had suggested she turn the...
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Asleep at the keyboard
The chatter is still reverberating on the new book by Scott McClellan, Bush's former press secretary. The funniest chatter to me is the identical use of the word "puzzling" as the official White House...
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To spank or not to spank
One of the things I still get to enjoy while waiting for employment to get back to me is listening online to Al Sharpton's radio show. It's always good to hear other's opinions in response to the...
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Pamela and Barack
It was like Christmas morning last night. My oldest sister Pam called me late last night to tell me of the experience of being at an Obama rally.My other sisters know Pam has never been the least bit...
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God in a card game
The title seems a little crazy but let me explain.I've been having problems with my not-so high speed Internet access so I've developed a passion for the game FreeCell, one of those innocuous games...
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Getting the good kind of clap
During this year's presidential parade of candidates, I must confess I sometimes didn't listen to the speeches. I watched the crowd. Fascinating!At first I searched for and counted faces of color. Then...
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When did patriotism become a code word?
A recent discussion I heard on the radio was yet another version of one I've been hearing over and over since this spring: Is Barack Obama patriotic?I listen to the talking heads try to give advice on...
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Oh Lord, I don't want to be in that number
...when the unemployed go marching in.Well, at least now you don't have to suffer the humility of sitting for hours in a cavernous room where an overworked state worker calls out the names of the...
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Don't blink
I'm trying not to blink at John McCain's run for the White House because I think I've already missed something. I missed the explanations on how he's a war hero and that he has the experience to lead a...
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Who am I? Why am I here?
In the middle of a recent job interview, I suddenly felt like the late Adm. James Stockdale. At his only debate as a vice-presidential candidate, he asked the questions above.While I carefully...
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Climbing mountains
The first time I thought about it, it was so scary I pushed it out of my mind.When the thought returned, I decided to hold it and turn it around like a glowing orb of promise.Let me back up for a...
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Mommy, what's a sexist?
State investigations and scandals aside, I'm having problems trying to not only understand McCain's pick for VP but also the campaign to hush up dissent about said nominee.I suppose they reason that it...
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Where does the line form?
After watching the economic bigheads trying over the weekend to explain why it's okay to give billions of dollars to the CEOs holding this country's economy hostage, I want to know where the line is...
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Is it really the economy, stupid or did we just get took?
Something's not right about this upside-down budget compromise. The Bush administration advocated and endorsed the free-wheeling deals banks conducted to the detriment of the people and the nation's...
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