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Three Very Different Speeches
June 4 2008 Anyone who watched CNN last night was reminded endlessly that it was an historic moment when Barack Obama became the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, the first African American to ever do so. What viewers might not have heard so much about were the differencesin the......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-04 10:24:37 | Rating:

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Movie Racism And The Chinese
June 10 2008 I recently viewed three old movies that perfectly illustrate how racism and propaganda change over time to fit whatever happen to be the current biases in our society. All three films dealt with the Chinese as a group, but the image of Asians portrayed in each movie couldn't be......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-10 15:28:08 | Rating:

| Views: 111 | Comments: 1 | Tags: racism

Stupid Movie Questions
June 15 2008 Watch enough old movies and you'll notice that some of the characters in these films ask questions that would have been better left unsaid because the answers won't be pretty. Here are some examples: "Whoa, Harry! What are you going to do with that knife?"......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-15 13:12:41 | Rating:

| Views: 86 | Comments: 0 | Tags: stupid questions

The Original Story
June 18 2008 When people learn that I write, many of them ask, "Where do you get your ideas?". I'm always puzzled by that question because I could ask them, "Where do you get your dreams at night?". Still, I must admit that coming up with an original story......Read More

Posted on: 2008-06-18 15:47:01 | Rating:

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Are We Tough Enough?
June 25 2008 There's no doubt that North America is experiencing hard times and they will get much harder before things improve. Your grandparents could have told you that difficult periods are nothing new because they lived through the Great Depression and World War II. It's interesting to......Read More