Friday, February 2, 2007RECORD PROFITS-RECORD CUTSIf ever the results of a Bush administration were ever clearly juxtaposed on the front page of the New York Times, it was today. On the lower left hand side of the paper, they always feature short capsule paragraphs that highlight the days top news stories. On top were the big headlines: BUSH SEEKS... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 5:36 AM Comments (4) (link) Wednesday, January 31, 2007WHAT GEORGE BUSH CAN LEARN FROM GHENGIS KHANOccasionally I get caught up in watching the History channel. Their programming used to be WWII all the time and not that I know everything about every battle that occurred in that war, it was not my generations war. The war I never get tired of rehashing is Vietnam. That was my generations war and... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 6:05 AM Comments (10) (link) Sunday, January 28, 2007THE VALUE OF PROTESTOn friday my 20 something IT director asked me if it was OK if he left work a little early. Sure I said and asked if he had a "gig" over the weekend. (He's a musician, a drummer, and plays in a local band, besides being a genius at DVD authoring, which is why I hired him.) No, he said he was hopping... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 9:31 AM Comments (5) (link) Saturday, January 27, 2007A DEATH KNELL FOR PRINT ON PAPER NEWSIt was the reassuring double thump sound as the New York Times followed by the Boston Globe hit our front stoop at 6:30 this morning that started me thinking about how much I will miss this increasingly quaint method of getting my news. Last night our local Boston TV broadcasters announced that the... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 8:04 AM Comments (7) (link) Tuesday, January 23, 2007TALK ABOUT BEING A "FLIP-FLOPPER"When John Kerry, Senator from Massachusetts was running for president, the rightwingnuts and "swiftboaters" pinned the "flip-flop" label on him for changing his views about the Iraq war (among other things) and that label stuck. It may not have been the single thing that affected the final vote, but... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 5:16 AM Comments (5) (link) |
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