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Pique'n Yer Interest
Pique'n Yer Interest
Suspension of disbelief
I've always been a common sense kind of guy, although that's not always a good thing.
Mar 20, 2009 6:16 AM
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When did facts become opinions?
We live in an age when truths have become matters of opinion. No longer can you shoot down an argument with a statement of fact - the fact, it seems, has become an argument all its own. Take Mark Steyn, for example.
Mar 13, 2009 6:59 AM
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Selling you to the highest bidder. Or, You’ve just been Facebooked
Ever wanted to see George W.
Feb 27, 2009 5:35 AM
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Stupid is as stupid does
One of the ongoing debates over the financial crisis is whether the movers and shakers who brought about a second depression were greedy or just plain stupid.
Feb 20, 2009 6:51 AM
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Lessons from APEC ’97
The Olympics are closing in. The countdown has begun. News organizations have flocked to Whistler to commemorate just one more year of waiting. RCMP helicopters and who knows what else are gazing down on us from above.
Feb 13, 2009 5:46 AM
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The media deserves better criticism
There's a great Far Side comic that's a perfect illustration of Rene Girard's theories about scapegoating. Wayne, a lonely, bespectacled man, sits in his bedroom. He looks out his window upon a crowd of protesters.
Jan 30, 2009 8:11 AM
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The speech you’ll never hear
In light of all the recent uproar over Games spending and borrowing in Vancouver, here is the speech that I would someday like to hear from Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee: "Hey everybody, thanks for being here.
Jan 23, 2009 7:05 AM
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Ari Got His Gun
He knows he can’t hesitate. He sits amidst a pile of rubble, mostly debris from decrepit, antiquated buildings that line an abandoned street. No point in bombing them. They could fall to pieces themselves.
Jan 16, 2009 6:21 AM
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The Burger Man's Burden
This helicopter, my chariot to fields far flung. This portable broiler, my tank in lands left savage. This battery of cameras, my agents of posterity — because it’s important first to record, then to broadcast.
Jan 9, 2009 8:47 AM
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A different version of 2008
Remember Y2K? Seems pretty embarrassing now, doesn’t it? Like when you got drunk for the first time. Except on Dec.
Jan 2, 2009 1:51 AM
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