The new Ford Fiesta commercial that has ad and design blogs all afluttter. Is it hip? Is it cool? Is it just more eye candy? Is it the ultimate triumph of sizzle over substance? Enquiring minds wa...
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A few nights ago I read the afterword to the new edition of Lewis Hydes The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. Originally published in the 1983, The Gift examines the vital place of ...
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An article in the online USA Today, reporting on the state of the presidential campaign in Kansas, reminded me of “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” Not the 2004 book by Thomas Frank, but the 1896 edito...
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For defenders of the Electoral College as a mode of selecting the President of the United States, the worst-case scenario happened in the election of 2000. Because of the idiosyncrasy of the Electoral...
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In the course of the nations history, Americans have elected presidents of diverse character, background, behavior, and appearance. The records of only a few of them are much considered these days, in...
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Britannicas Advocacy for Animals site has provided a guide to the views of the U.S. presidential and vice-presidential candidates on issues related to the environment and animal welfare. Following is ...
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Today marks the 137th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, a conflagration with few peers in world history. The fire cost some 300 lives, destroyed 17,450 buildings, and caused $200 million ...
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The standard of productivity is the basis of our increasingly meritocratic society. These are the best times ever to be young, smart, pretty, and industrious. But the pressure is on like never befor...
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Britannicas Advocacy for Animals site has provided a guide to the views of the U.S. presidential and vice-presidential candidates on issues related to the environment and animal welfare. Following is ...
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One of the curiosities of this campaign is the very low profile of discussion of the federal judiciary and the politics of constitutional interpretation, but as we turn to the second presidential deba...
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The shock with which the media establishment greeted Sarah Palins selection was wholly understandable given her brief resume. But that the pundits have been shocked by her popularity is inexcusable. ...
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This past week, one of the greatest film actors of our times passed away. I am not sure that any other actor appeared in as many great films as Paul Newman. In thinking about what has been happening i...
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Britannicas Advocacy for Animals site has provided a guide to the views of the U.S. presidential and vice-presidential candidates on issues related to the environment and animal welfare. Following is ...
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Their classic sketch on incorrectly divining the wishes of the client.
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Don’t trust the military junta in Burma when they issue so-called democracy plans. Just last month they arrested Nilar Thein, a woman rights defender and leading pro-democracy activist. This, just a...
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Publisher Thames & Hudson releases today a novel new Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live. As the publisher explains, The size of each territory represents exactly its land area in pr...
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Britannicas Advocacy for Animals site has provided a guide to the views of the U.S. presidential and vice-presidential candidates on issues related to the environment and animal welfare. Following is ...
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A farm animal (possibly), devastation, and Chicago. Is it 1945, the curse of the Billy Goat, and the Chicago Cubs?* It could be, but no. Its 1871, Mrs. OLearys Cow (or not), and the Great Chicago Fire...
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2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, my number one film. Steve Carlson, over at The Ongoing Cinematic Education of Steven Carlson blog, was the first to guess this film and therefore w...
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2004 Second Presidential Debate (St. Louis) - President Bush, during the last four years, you have made thousands of decisions that have affected millions of lives. Please give three instances in whic...
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