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Belly Button Lint
Its navel gazing season again, as it is in the wake of every general election. Both sides are analyzing the results of this months electoral festivities, from very differen... |
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on Dec 1, 2012 at 9:24 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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House built on a sand foundation
Political campaigns are not famous for hewing to any line of ethical rectitude. The First Amendment that honors free expression is never stronger than when the subject is pol... |
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on Sep 16, 2012 at 11:32 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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First Debate Recap: Christmas in October
As much as I regret the necessity, I suppose its time to climb down off my American League West Division Champion Oakland Athletics-induced euphoria and comment on the First ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 11, 2012 at 7:15 am by spcwt, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Son of Moneyball
Okay, so this week Mr. Obama got his bump, and Mr. Romney continues to demonstrate his proud amateur standing as a student of foreign affairs. It also looks like those nasty ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Sep 28, 2012 at 10:55 am by Cornelius McGillicuddy, a resident of another community |
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Does Race Still Matter in the 2012 Presidential Sweeps?
I predict that this weeks epistle will cause a bit of a ruckus. Im not sure, though, since I have been surprised on several occasions already over these twenty-some weeks. ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 19, 2011 at 1:07 pm by Sam, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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First Debate Drinking Game
Okay politifans, we now know from the respective debate camps that neither candidate can conjugate a verb or communicate with more sophistication than grunts, growls and flu... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 9, 2012 at 1:25 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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What is The Problem? The GOP is The Problem.
The first thing you need to know about Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann is where they work at the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, respectively. Th... |
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on Jul 26, 2012 at 11:14 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Debate 3: Horses and Tumult and Barnum Oh My!
The miscellaneous impressions format worked so well last week in promoting a searching policy conversation -- lets try it again.
1 -- The overriding theme of this debate... |
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on Nov 4, 2012 at 8:31 am by cardinal, a resident of the Diablo neighborhood |
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Ikes Farewell, Revisited
I recently came across President Eisenhowers Farewell Address to the nation, circa 1961, on a Great Speeches CD. Its impressive in its predictive power and in its moderatio... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Aug 2, 2011 at 3:57 pm by Mark Patrick Brown, a resident of another community |
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Pretending to resolve a make-believe crisis in a way that nobody can understand
Is everybody happy now? Relieved anyway, because we dodged a bullet, forged a compromise and snatched victory from the jaws of default? Does it make any difference:
- tha... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Aug 8, 2011 at 12:57 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Horrific Toll. Simple Truth.
With the ancient Mayans now universally exposed as bad-at-math, it falls to me to write this weeks column. It will be brief, but heart-felt, and, I suspect, not uncontrovers... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Dec 26, 2012 at 11:13 am by cardinal, a resident of the Diablo neighborhood |
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What price retribution?
Some interesting internal conversations occur when theres tension between two competing beliefs inside any one persons head. For the many Californians who support both the ... |
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on Jul 13, 2011 at 7:34 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Their Akin-Breakin Hurt
I thought I was taking a late summer hiatus, based on a combination of annual dog days reveries, overseas athletic distractions, and an utterly uninspiring domestic political ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Aug 31, 2012 at 5:39 pm by Dave, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Obromneycare, Part One: What is it, exactly?
The Affordable Care Act is (choose only one):
a. Socialized medicine
b. The moral equivalent of strapping grandma to an ice floe
c. The moral imperative of a civilize... |
Tom Cushing |
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on May 12, 2012 at 1:01 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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College-level Math 1, Electoral edition
As the campaigns take shape in late September and the so-called low-interest voters (who may decide the outcome what a comfort that is!) finally tune-in to them, its time... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Sep 28, 2012 at 10:25 am by Dave, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Just who IS this Obama guy, anyway?
Its tempting to begin this weeks epistle with an inquiry about whether anybody feels better about last weeks DC debacle, from an investors vantage fully 15% below where yo... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Aug 11, 2011 at 5:41 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Comedy or Tragedy?
Whew if the recent flurry of activity here on the DX Board is any indication (and it is), this weeks doings in Charlotte have heightened interest in the Presidential campai... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Sep 27, 2012 at 2:23 pm by Ann, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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The ObamaNation
Here are some immediate thoughts arising out of last evenings festivities the night ended earlier than I had feared it might; that said, it takes time to formulate useful, ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Nov 10, 2012 at 12:27 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Wealth, unions, the beleaguered middle class and the last cookie
As the story goes, a unionized public employee, a middle manager, and a Wall Street CEO are seated at a table, with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO takes 11 cookies, looks at ... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 14, 2011 at 3:50 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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FEDs vs. Frankenstorm
Im not a big devotee of conspiracy theories, human-or-divinely inspired. People are generally unable to either collaborate adequately or keep a secret, and my Deity acts wit... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Nov 3, 2012 at 4:27 pm by Dave, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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Longing to Breathe Free
Americans are fond of asserting a "melting pot" image to explain the assimilation of successive waves of immigrants. That metaphor has never really appealed to your scribe, c... |
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on Jun 28, 2012 at 10:39 am by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Alamo neighborhood |
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Its Not Your Founding Fathers First Amendment
I have always had profound respect for the First Amendments genius, considering it the most fundamental expression of Americas respect for individual freedom. It guards u... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 29, 2011 at 4:23 pm by Tom Cushing, a resident of the Danville neighborhood |
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"If You Can Keep It"
This week's news brought an early glimpse into the inner workings of a novel species of political animal: the SuperPAC. These beasts were unleashed by the Supreme Court's 20... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Jul 25, 2012 at 2:00 pm by Time for truth, a resident of the San Ramon neighborhood |
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A few final thoughts on the As, and a Polls Update
Baseball season came to a bittersweet end last Thursday evening, as the As bowed-out of MLBs post-season tournament three-games-to-two to the Tigers. Thus ended, for now,... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Oct 17, 2012 at 2:26 pm by cardinal, a resident of the Diablo neighborhood |
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The Hayden Bill, the Governor and the least among us
Please Note: I was all ready to opine on the depleted state of the GOP aspirants, and how quickly Obama has won me back and then THIS happened in Sacramento. While I promis... |
Tom Cushing |
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on Feb 1, 2012 at 12:16 pm by San Ramon Oberver, a resident of the San Ramon neighborhood |
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