Tag: politics
member name: Olin Elliott
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April 13, 2007 01:18 PM EDT --
If you're as sick as I am about hearing the name Don Imus, please feel free to skip this. Personally, I'd rather have a root canal than listen to Don Imus for five minutes -- or any of the . . .
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January 31, 2007 02:59 PM EST --
Last week I published a thought experiment intended to stimulate thought about animal rights:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976895184
For such a short piece it received a good . . .
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January 26, 2007 01:00 PM EST --
The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position. -- Christine Stevens . . .
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January 26, 2007 03:35 PM EST --
A number of major news agencies are reporting another horrific attack in Baghdad today:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC125722.htm
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC125722.htm
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January 19, 2007 05:26 PM EST --
It was one of those moments we can only dream of in a post-modern world. A moment with the purity of a Zen Koan, requiring no commentary, only contemplation.
Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, appearing . . .
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July 31, 2006 10:19 AM EDT --
by Olin Elliott
In the past week I have had two experiences -- one directly and one through the media -- which greatly upset me. The first was reading an account, on the World Society for the Protection . . .
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January 10, 2007 04:47 PM EST --
In the novel Illusions by Richard Bach, the highly enlightened messiah, Donald Shimoda, is called to task for borrowing one of his pithy sayings from Snoopy the Dog. A tad peevishly, Shimoda replies, . . .
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January 13, 2007 03:04 PM EST --
In the novel Illusions by Richard Bach, the highly enlightened messiah, Donald Shimoda, is called to task for borrowing one of his pithy sayings from Snoopy the Dog. A tad peevishly, Shimoda replies, . . .
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