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Honestly, take a time machine back to a few days before the story about Obama getting the Prize broke and take a street poll among regular Americans asking them to name ONE PERSON who has previously won a Nobel Peace Prize. Nobody on this side of the Atlantic gave a damn [...]
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Being able to visit the ruins of Pompeii via Google Maps’ street view is pretty exciting.
Follow this link and click on Street View.
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Sarah Palin just doesn’t know when to give up. Sitting down for an interview with Rusty Humphries, a conservative radio host – obviously, since Palin doesn’t sit down with liberal ones – she validated the “birther” movement by saying that “the public rightfully is still making it an issue.” She went on to say [...]
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Patrick Phillips wrote in his blog about a California man who has proposed a ban on divorce. In his post, and in the comments, he talked about the same-sex marriage debate, and “civil unions.”
I wrote the following in response to his post, and I am copying it here because I’ve often written in my [...]
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Most things about the Internet are great for the mind if not necessarily for the soul. Vast amounts of knowledge right at your fingertips. Even the worst speller can turn out decent writing with the aid of online dictionaries, spellcheckers, and various other tools. There are news, conversations, debates, and dozens of ways to [...]
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I’ve been a big Star Trek fan ever since I watched the Original Series re-runs as a kid. There is something to be said about great stories: they don’t need to wrapped in a lot of hi-tech special effects in order for them to work well.
The original series has been released on DVD before, [...]
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Here we go again.
In a Massachusetts school, Fifth grade students of a science class were shown slides of human organs, such a spleen, a kidney, and somesuch things. The guest speaker was a pathologist assistant, so the kiddies were given an excellent opportunity to ask questions and learn stuff from a real person of science.
So [...]
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It’s not very often that a website makes me feel uncomfortable and chills me to the bone.
A Danish website called “Hit The Bitch,” intended as a public service announcement for Danish citizens, had that very effect on me. On this website, the visitor is faced with a Danish-speaking young woman, whom the visitor can hit [...]
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Last week was not a good one for civil rights.
A city law being hatched in Washington, D.C. that would make it illegal for religious organizations to discriminate against homosexual individuals – with the exception of having to marry them or support their ceremonies – has gotten a cold response from the Catholic Archdiocese of [...]
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Mika Salakka is a Finn living in the United States. He is a nursing assistant, a creative writer, a devoted husband, and an observer of the human condition. His interests range from music and literature to psychology, sociology, medicine, technology, and spirituality.
Was It Something I Said?
February 13, 2010
in Commentary
Blog bloggety blog.
I’m sure there are few things more boring than reading a blogger write about blogging (unless you’re a blogger yourself), but here goes anyway.
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that a blogger whose blog I like to blog – err, read – had added me to his blogroll. A blogroll is, as [...]
Tagged as: blogging, Internet, Society, Writing
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