Courtesy of a friend of mine who is on the e-mail list for Organizing for America, I share below the latest electronic message he received Tuesday evening from the Barack Obama front group. Except for the caricature of the president that I added and the links I disabled, the message appears unedited below: (Salutation: name [...]
Obama Front Group Recruiting Summer Organizers
February 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment
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TB Outbreak Prompts Quarantines in South Africa
January 14th, 2009 · No Comments
In a May 2007 post, I highlighted a Washington Post article in which writer Peter Finn pointed out that voluntarily or involuntarily placement of individuals in isolation or quarantine might not be far away. Today, according to report in the Global Post, the South African government is already there, battling with multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis: Fearful [...]
Tags: · ACLU, global post, hiv-positive people, isolatin, multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis, Peter Finn, Quarantine, south africa, south african government, TB, Tuberculosis
JWT Ad Agency Offers 90 Things to Watch in 2009
December 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Ever wonder what trends, fads and buzzwords are likely to become popular during the next 12 months? Wonder no more. JWT, one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, released a list of 90 things deemed worth watching in 2009. “Our list points to the broader trends we’re seeing, showing the ways in which [...]
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Was Nelson Mandela Too Old To Be President?
May 18th, 2008 · 8 Comments
I’m not a fan of Nelson Mandela. Whether or not you are, I suspect you might appreciate some parallels that can be drawn between the lives of the anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress and that of Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Mandela took office in 1994 at the age of 77 [...]
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The Myth of Human-Caused Global Warming
April 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments
Earlier today, I shared news about food rationing in the United States. Upon discovery of that news, I began researching the issues of food supplies and shortages further. While I found several articles offering glimpses into the growing worldwide food crisis, only one pointed to the root cause: The myth of man-made global warming. Below [...]
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