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1.2KHealthToughness and unwillingness to back down …
The Eternal Letter and I promise to not brag about family or children … or tell you too much about illnesses or...
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1.4KEconomy
Trumpetism … an age-old belief system
*Cartoon: Martyn Turner, used with permission: https://www.facebook.com/martynturnercartoons/ . http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner Immediately, The Problem became clear. Donald Trump is really no different than any...
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1.3KEconomy
Tasmania’s rebellious history: Bushrangers and absconders fight an unfree society
Tasmania’s colonial history is a bloody one. It includes tales of wars between Aboriginal Tasmanians and the settlers, hangings and people rebelling...
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1.1KEconomy
NATION: Through his words we know him … Hewson on the rise of Isis
Brillat-Savarin, the French philosopher, said in 1826, “We are what we eat…” Of course that is not fully true. We are more....
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If I were God …
During long Arctic-like winters when the only thing working in our household was the popcorn popper, father sometimes held a special court...
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1.7KEconomy
‘Old Chook’ Retirement solution
The therapy sessions grew in intensity and numbers as the percentage of my aged patients swelled. In my professional years as a...
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“Say it Again Tony” (And Again, And Again)
For me it started in the year 1938 or thereabouts. Father was a minor official in the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota....
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1.1KArticle
Tabloid-driven sentencing policies waste public money and lives
There are fault lines in all forms of government. Democracies are as vulnerable as any other to one of them: the charm...
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Virtual Reality for politicians
For those of you who do not know ‘Gizmag’ it is a cutting edge introduction of new technology ( Here ). Some...
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1.0KEconomy
A New Political Sport: The Demonizing of Age
I have lost track of how many times I have listened to, heard or watched some politician or social analyst narrate the...
