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Dec.15.2011
What's the best four letter word for this recession? The "F" word or the "S" word? The "S" word, s-l-o-w, agonizingly so, uggh, dragging on and on, one day we are up the next day we are down. But that "F" word is applicable as well. Fast, which implies how fast one hundred dollars slips through our...
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Nov.25.2011
This story from The Los Angeles Times was inevitable. As though news reporters are camped out at every Black Friday Sale store waiting for this story today.
I need to know how in the world this woman got out of the store without getting caught after pepper spraying twenty people. One...
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Sep.23.2010
I wonder how many of our politicians sleep at night, them and their CEO buddies selling out Americans right and left. Shame on them all. When did money become more important than loyalty to our country?
Every time they send another company or job overseas they are selling us out to the highest...
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Jan.07.2010
...is over. On the eve of the new decade, we were in Provincetown, but were unable to have our annual beach fire because of snow and high wind. At the annual ritual, we jot down things we want to burn up from the old year and toss them in the fire.
Some whiny friends seemed relieved that we...
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Dec.04.2009
I don't think that people can truly be grateful for what they have unless they know what it feels like to go without. I have always appreciated things more that came as a result of struggle and sacrifice. The silver lining in this bad economy may be that it is bringing people closer together...
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May.25.2009
Its harder than frozen bratwursts to believe we've reached the end of May already, but there it is—Memorial Day—delivering a swift kick in the buns to any lingering memory of a very ugly winter. And the mustard rises on another summer. Coincidentally, gas prices continue to spike. Again. Hey,...
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Feb.26.2009
Before Slumdog Millionaire, before the weekly Lottery, before overnight fame came from being discovered on YouTube, there was hope fueled by imagination sitting around the coffee table late at night. My Mom met her best friend when we shared space at a local motel in the heart of Silicon Valley-...
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Feb.06.2009
Last year, novelists from around the world with unpublished novels in English flocked to the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Bill Loehfelm emerged as the 2008 Grand Prize Winner from a pool of 5,000 entrants with his mystery novel Fresh Kills. This year Amazon with the support of the Penguin...
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Jan.27.2009
Who Will Watch Government When All The Journalists Are Laid Off?
The loss of advertising revenue for daily newspapers has resulted in the lay- off of experienced journalists as a way to control costs.
As news papers continue to shrink and more focus is paid to the Web...
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Jan.27.2009
Women workers have long been considered Japan’s neglected resource as the country continues to grapple with both hard economic times and the dwindling pool of potential employees to take over for retiring baby boomers in many fields. Japan has always been very slow to change and despite some...
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