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Send me to the Friedman Forum!

UPDATE: Thanks to your help, I’ve reached my goal!  For more Friedman fun, please read my Definitive Collection of Thomas Friedman Takedowns. You couldn’t begin to imagine my horror excitement when I received an invite to the Friedman Forum in San Francisco on June 20. My heart sank skipped a few beats and my eyes welled […]

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Guns vs. bombs in the terrorism debate

In his column today, Glenn Greenwald asks: “Can an act of violence be called ‘terrorism’ if its motives are unknown?” Greenwald surmises: “It’s hard not to suspect that the only thing distinguishing the Boston attack from Tucson, Aurora, Sandy Hook and Columbine (to say nothing of the US “shock and awe” attack on Baghdad and […]

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More commentary on a generation

I think that the core of what I was getting at last time I talked about my generation is the tension between being called digital natives and being capable of feeling nostalgia for analog.  I eat out of these cereal bowls that were passed down and are probably 40 years old and they remind me of […]