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Notes for a lecture, "Reinventing Oneself in America": Jane Pauley reimagines...
Jane Pauley reimagines life for the over-50 setJocelyn McClurg, USATODAY8:41 a.m. EST January 7, 2014Her new book, "Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life," weaves her story among tales...
View ArticleWill Digital Networks Ruin Us?
JB note: The below also pertains to Facebook: its content is provided by its users "free of charge." OP-ED COLUMNISTWill Digital Networks Ruin Us?By JOE NOCERA, New York TimesThe most important book I...
View ArticleWhy all this stuff about weed?
I'm always amazed by America. At the very same time that upper-crusty clean-living health purists (think Rocky Mountain High) condemn booze and nicotine, they are saying weed is ok.Well, ok. Let's keep...
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Soviet-Era Marijuana Still In Demand or, how the best marijuana is made ...
TransmissionSoviet-Era Marijuana Still In Demand - RFE/RLPrintComment (14)Share:http://www.rferl.org/content/sweaty_bars_of_hash_soviet_era_marijuana_still_in_demand/24311848.htmlTwo-meter-high...
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January 7-8 Public Diplomacy Review
"I’ve dedicated over a decade of scholarship to the topic without any acknowledgment from State."--Jami Fullerton, "Do PD officers read the academic research on public diplomacy?"PD News–CPD Blog, USC...
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California's grumpy secessionists of the far north - Notes for a lecture, "E...
California's grumpy secessionists of the far northThey believe people in the south are holding them back, and many of them would like to combine with southern Oregonians to form a 51st state, which...
View ArticleHow the College Bubble Will Pop
How the College Bubble Will PopOPINIONRichard Vedder and Christopher Denhart: How the College Bubble Will PopIn 1970, less than 1% of taxi drivers had college degrees. Four decades later, more than 15%...
View Articlehistoric vs. historical
Disagreeable English - From the Vocabula Review, via WB byemailhistoric [:] Disagreeable for historical. * Imperiled by habitat loss, invading species, and other known and unknown dangers, up to a...
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Sexuality and Categories
I am always reluctant to talk about sexuality in public as it is an intensely private matter. Lovers' bedroom is their bedroom, no one else's. We all know the timeless John Donne verses:And now...
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"He looks like a monster!”: A thought on Dennis and his "Rod-men" in North Korea
"He looks like a monster!”--The reaction of one Pyongyang man shouting, when he saw visiting former NBA start Dennis Rodman on the street; image from, with caption: Kim Jong Un and Dennis Rodman watch...
View ArticleMedicare is not free! -- a minor message to the younger generation
In August, I, a 65-year-old still going through puberty, enrolled not quite voluntarily, in Medicare.Today, January 10, 2014, I got a "Notice of Medicare Premium Due" of $1,007.40 "due by "01/24/2014"...
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January 9-10 Public Diplomacy Review
"He Looks Like a Monster."--The reaction of one Pyongyang man shouting, when he saw visiting former NBA start Dennis Rodman on the street; image from, with caption: Kim Jong Un and Dennis Rodman watch...
View ArticleThe misuse of American might
The misuse of American might, and the price it pays: The United States no longer knows how to win wars, but it continues to start themBy Andrew J. Bacevich, latimes.comJanuary 12, 2014The U.S. military...
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Nation's first bookless public library system opens
Nation's first bookless public library system opensComments0EmailShare15KPatrons use computers at BiblioTech, a digital public library in San Antonio, Texas. (Eric Gay / Associated Press /December 11,...
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Public Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon: Digital Diplomacy in the Middle East...
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LBJ on Mexicans, and on the United States Information Agency (known as USIS...
PreviousNext50 Years Ago: Lyndon Johnson’s First Foreign Crisishttp://www.theglobalist.com/panama-50-years-ago-lyndon-johnsons-first-foreign-crisis/On January 9, 1964, a new president’s foreign policy...
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January 11-12 Public Diplomacy Review
"Effective public diplomacy is like motor oil; it may not fuel forward motion, however it greatly reduces friction along the way."--newmoviex.net; image fromFELLOWSHIPFulbright - National Geographic...
View ArticleThe 'Clash of Civilizations’ that never was: A famous 1992 claim that the...
Home OpinionThe 'Clash of Civilizations’ that never was: A famous 1992 claim that the clash between Western civilization and Islam would be the new global battleground has ultimately proved wide off...
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Lovers: Verboten at university president's residence
President's Home or Prison? - Ry Rivard, insidehighered.com: "The new Alabama State University president’s contract comes with strings attached -- to her love life. Gwendolyn Boyd is coming back to her...
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Worthy of ancient Rome at the height of its imperial decadence ...
Golden Globes: The good, the bad and the bizarre [video] - USA TodayBest and worst of Golden Globes fashion | Daily Dish [video] - USA TodayBlending Genders, for Some Laughs at the Golden Globes: Tina...
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