December 2009
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don't be SAD
I’m going to attempt a public experiment. Since moving to Poland (a very, very cold climate) from Texas (an unbearably hot climate) four years ago, I have either developed Seasonal Affective Disorder, or I have always had it but it lay dormant as long as I had regular exposure to sunlight during the winter. But now that I live in a place where the sun sets around 4 pm for months at a...
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Who watches the watchmen?
It’s a sad state of affairs to think that society’s traditional watchdog, the media, needs its own watchdog. Case in point:
It may have been the letter from Fox News — or maybe a stinging piece last week about Mr. Beck’s gold associations on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” — that led to the change in the “paid spokesman” designation.
- Glenn Beck’s Gold Deal...
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the free agent paradox
It’s all too often that, in the name of orderliness and simplicity, a dichotomy is established when the matter at hand is far more complicated. Such, I believe, is the case in the age-old classification of human beings into leaders and followers.
At least one more category is necessary, and this one I’ll dub “free agents”. A free agent is neither a leader nor a follower....