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Ode To the Napster Generation: Part Deux
©2012 James Montgomery Well, the battle had been joined over the SOPA/PIPA legislation and the people “won” and the bad, bad legislators in Washington retreated back to the dens of inequity from which...
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The Gospel According To Me
So many of today’s social issues have to do with a person feeling good about themselves and what they themselves believe. It is self-justification and rationalization. Then they look around and seek...
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For The “Birthers”: The Asylum Awaits
The ya-ya over Barack Obama’s birth certificate is still on-going. The only thing I don’t believe about it is that this ridiculous farce is still on-going! The people who continue to pursue this...
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The Chik-Fil-A-ing of America
This has nothing to do with the recent events surrounding Chik-Fil-A about gay rights or the rights of a private citizen to exercise his free speech. This has to do with the way the company operates...
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Social Media: meh! (A Short Diatribe For Short-Term Memory)
Facebook! Twitter! My wife says I should get a Facebook account. Why? So she can “friend” me? She already made the ultimate sacrifice, what is my being on Facebook going to do for her? And...
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George, George, You Really Weren’t Up To the Job In the First Place, Were You?
Yeah, I know, I’m not covering any new territory here. George Lucas, for better or worse, has been one of the most important figures in moviemaking in the past fifty years and has been praised and...
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The Lure of Radio
I am writing a story about someone in distress and pleading into a microphone for a rescue. Their only hope is that someone will hear and act to save them. And the whole scenario got me...
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Whenever A Bell Rings, An Angel Gets A Job.
Now that the Republicans have taken the electoral pasting they so “richly” deserved, I get the impression that a lot of people in this country weren’t buying the line about tax breaks for the wealthy...
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Ah, the Times in Which We Live… Sports and Money
©Paramount Pictures Full disclosure: I am a Vikings fan; I have been since I was nine-years old and discovered these guys with big white horns on their helmets beating up on the Chicago Bears. Over...
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Accepting the System
I’ve played plenty of online games (as have most people who have computers). I find it strange that we play games that offer different levels of “difficulty” and we don’t think twice about it....
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