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Nora Ephron: It’s Hard to be a Democrat

It has never been easy being a Liberal in the US but these days Liberalism isn’t even on the radar. The Democrats are just as corporate as the Republicans with the same lust for...

Started in Carsons Post • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: politics, us
Wal-Mart looking for new formula

Wal-Mart’s grand strategy of becoming more fashionable has fizzled and is being retooled.Wal-Mart shoppers like its stores but don’t necessarily love them. Low-income shoppers, one of...

Started in Carsons Post • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: corporations, culture, economics, lifestyle
The American fetish for flag-pride is nothing short of jingoism.

Opinions - washingtonpost.com: Has this flag thing gone way too far in the US? In this pic Navy celebrates its victory over Notre Dame, its first in 44 years, with a spectacle that seems to imply:...

Started in Carsons Post • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: us
Ignorance rewarded: Glenn Beck gets $50 million

‘I’m a recovering alcoholic, you know. I’m just like you.’In signing the $50 million five year extension to his existing contract, Glenn Beck, 43,  becomes the newest, and...

Started in Carsons Post • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: media
The oaks of Sherwood Forest are falling

How many of the world’s eco icons are threatened? Probably most of them because they tend to acquire their status in part to their proximity to populations and that, these days, is the kiss of...

Started in Carsons Post • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: environment, uk
From the theatre of the absurd: Rice seeks Mideast peace deal while Bush in office

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Monday in voicing hope they could reach a peace agreement before President George W. Bush leaves office in January...

Started in Carsons Post • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: middle east, politics, terrorism, us, war
NFL Is No. 1 for a reason

Why the NFL Is Still No. 1 Time asks, then answers the question by pronouncing it’s because baseball and basketball (hockey is never mentioned) are peopled by such dreadful if excellent...

Started in Carsons Post • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: sport
Facebook: More Popular Than Porn

It seems that social-networking sites have not only usurped porn in popularity, but they’ve also gobbled up time Gen Y-ers used to spend on traditional e-mail and IM. When you can reach all of...

Started in Carsons Post • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: internet, lifestyle, technology
Lipitor vs statin; a battle of the $ vs the ¢

The on-going battle of the brand drug versus the generic is taking place in spades and in advertisements.Is the generic equivalent of Liptior, simvastatin, as good at reducing cholesterol build-up...

Started in Carsons Post • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: health
Why US Diplomats Won’t Go to Iraq

There can be no greater condemnation of the Bush policy in Iraq than the one offered by US ambassadors: we won’t go.But why? Time tries to answer the question here: Why Diplomats Won’t...

Started in Carsons Post • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: iraq, politics, us, war