Month: January 2006
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The year we questioned authority
There is a terrific essay in the 26 December 2005 issue of Time about how 2005 was the end of the free pass for President Bush and other public figures by Andrew Sullivan who’s blog is the Daily Dish. My favorite quote:Katrina was the turning point, the moment when the extent of cronyism, incompetence and…
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Pity vs. Passion
Pity sees suffering and wants to ease the pain; passion sees injustice and wants to settle the score. Pity implores the powerful to pay attention; passion warns them about what will happen if they don’t. The risk of pity is that it kills with kindness; the promise of passion is that it builds on the…
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National Transportation Safety Board
The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had covertly funded a project with the U.S. auto makers for the past 5 years, whereby the auto makers were installing black box voice recorders in four-wheel drive pickup trucks and SUV’s in an effort to determine in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds…
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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Dreams
Follow your dream … if you stumble, don’t stop and lose sight of your goal, press on to the top. For only on top can we see the whole view…Amanda Bradley