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Senate and House Split as Obama Is to Address Budget
The Democratic Senate and Republican House were on a collision course as they pursued different debt plans, and President Obama planned to address the nation Monday night.I saw it. The fight goes on. Congress has committed to spend the money. This is all posturing. It can still be a disaster. -
New York: Empire of Evolution
A small but growing number of field biologists study urban evolution — the biological changes that cities bring to the wildlife that inhabits them.The fundamentalists may have a problem with this. -
How the Deficit Got This Big
A look at how the economy went from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era to the current deficit.The shrub bought votes. Who would of thought they were so cheap. -
Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.
The man accused of the killing spree in Norway was deeply influenced by anti-Muslim bloggers and right-wing activists in the U.S., lacing his 1,500-page manifesto with quotations from them."It pays to advertise." He did buy quite a bit of attention. -
Portraits From the New York City Marriage Bureau
Audio and photos of 20 same-sex couples who wed on Sunday, July 24, 2011, in Manhattan.They are all happy. -
Tax Soda, Subsidize Vegetables
Taxing junk food and making healthy food more affordable would save millions of lives and billions of dollars in health care costs."Pay to play" is part of social engineering. Who has the deep pockets? -
Opinion
A very clear picture.
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Start-Up Handles Social Media Background Checks
A start-up helps companies dig into potential employees’ activity online, from Facebook posts to e-commerce usage.Sorting applicants is easier if there are fewer of them. -
Messing With Medicare
It’s actually good that the “Grand Bargain” is apparently dead, because what President Obama offered to the Republicans was a very bad deal for America.
My problem is the offer has not been rescinded.If a deal ends this fuss it will make a part of it.
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Matching Travelers With Rooms, via the Web
Airbnb, a San Francisco-based company that says it handles 10,000 guests a night, is at the center of a boom in start-ups that are creating a market for places to stay.Not for me if I can avoid it. -
To Reach Simple Life at Camp, Lining Up for Private Jets
Even as the economy limps along, more of the nation’s wealthier families are cutting out the car ride and chartering planes to fly to summer camps.Competitive camping has never made much sense to me. It is seasonal work that recruits every spring. -
China Requires Web Monitoring Software for Stores
The new rule applies to bars, restaurants, hotels and bookstores that are popular with people seeking a Wi-Fi connection.I suppose encryption would work. The filter will reject anything obvious. Harder than you would think. It would have to work on the url . -
Deep Below Park Avenue, a 200-Ton Drill at Rest
A gargantuan cutter head that has been hollowing out tunnels for a train station under Grand Central Terminal will be buried, dormant and decayed, in Midtown Manhattan.It will enter legend. -
The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s
Call it credentials inflation. A four-year degree may not cut it anymore.There are no entry level slots left. -
Addictive Personality? You Might be a Leader
What we seek in leaders is often the same risk-taking personality type that is found in addicts.Wrong. Addicts are more willing to follow than most. Addiction is understood. It is not an adventure but a shelter from adventure.Colleridge was about the last to go there as an adventure. -
Make Way for the Radical Center
A third way is on the way for the 2012 presidential campaign. And its convention will be held on the Internet.The centre is not there and it is not radical. There has been no viable third party since 1860. -
Apple Sales in China Zoom Ahead of Competitors
Must-have gadgets are causing a stir, with stores packed and inventory sparse.In the age and home of piracy how is this possible? -
Google+, Facebook and Online Reality
An interesting cogitation. I can probably live without facebook etc.
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The Maze of Moral Relativism
I have problems with this I am not prepared to deal with now.First morality: I am enough of a Benthamite to use the concept of good without a certainty of best. This may be what is meant by moral relativism. I am finding the distinctions drawn foggy at best.
I suspect that we are being played with.I believe there are situations where several good resolutions exist that are mutually exclusive. Which is best becomes a very relative question.
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