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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 participate [...]

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Skin Deep

November 14, 2009

in Commentary

Humankind’s concern with physical appearance has certainly taken new extremes in the last couple of decades in my humble opinion. Certainly we have been preoccupied with our looks ever since Adam took notice of Eve’s form. Our modern society places a lot of inane demands on women in terms of how they should look. Supermodels, [...]

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Oink Oink, Bang Bang

October 7, 2009

in Commentary

I have a mental list of the types of individuals I refuse to accept medical advice from, and this week I made a couple of new entries: political TV show hosts, and physicians who run websites that try to sell homeopathic health products.

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The media has been so utterly saturated with everything related to Michael Jackson that I hesitate to even write about this, but the irony of the situation has me shaking my head in such disbelief that I feel something ought to be said.

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