It’s 1972. Richard Nixon is reelected president. Watergate is broken into by a bunch White House operatives. Sanford & Son premieres on NBC. The last military draft is held even though the US is beginning withdrawal from Viet Nam. Mark Spitz wins 7 gold medals at the summer Olympics in Munich only to bested later…
Author Archives: Stevie
Rolling Stones Revive Rock Concert Movie for One Day Showing
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Written on September 16, 2010
Recovery? Double Dip? Who Cares? The Adventure is All Up to You!
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Is this a recovery? The beginning of a double dip? Or just the continuation of a process called depression where excesses of the past are wrung out of the economy? No matter the setting, no matter how any of the pundits choose to define the current situation the result will depend only on what you…
Written on September 1, 2010
Clooney’s Request ‘Keep the Spotlight Burning’
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All award shows are something that I typically shy away from viewing. But when Jimmy Fallon started goofing around with the cast from Glee last night it caught my attention and imagination. What if this wasn’t going to suck? So, watch we did. We’re glad to have seen George Clooney use his moment in the…
Written on August 30, 2010
Private Air Travel Requires No Records and Little Security
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Reading a novel on vacation is time well spent. There’s little opportunity for it otherwise. This summer while lazing on the shores of Indian Lake near Dowagiac, Michigan, I finished Nelson DeMille’s Wild Fire. One item touched on by the main character continues to resonate: private air travel, referred to as general aviation requires very…
Written on August 27, 2010
Help Your Favorite Charity Surfing the Web
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This Yahoo-powered search engine donates to charities as you surf and shop. What could be easier? Let’s say you want to look up some info for a project or just personal curiosity. You call up GoodSearch.com and plug in your charity of choice, such as Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders or Catholic Charities. Next, plug…
Written on August 24, 2010
How Much Does the War on Drugs Cost?
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Is it less than a TRILLION or more than 1,000 BILLION? Who knows? Does anyone care? You should! It’s costing more than just the dollars reported on some budget sheet. In Border Security Could Begin with End of the War on Drugs, we wrote that the prohibition instituted in 1973 announcing “an all-out global war…
Written on August 18, 2010
New Hair Cuts in Sports and the Worm’s
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It seems a lot of time can be spent theorizing why one guy (or gal) would get their hair cut or done up a certain way. In the world of sports (and especially in the rookie football camps) they have wasted no time recently in lighting up the media’s pages with new coifs. Without further…
Written on August 17, 2010
Border Security Could Begin with End of the War on Drugs
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Today, a $600 million border security bill was signed into law by our president. The measure will fund the hiring of 1,000 new Border Patrol agents to be deployed at critical areas along the Mexican border, as well as more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. New communications equipment and an increasing use of unmanned…
Written on August 14, 2010
Ramadan marked by Rampant Consumerism and Surprising Conflict
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Writing in this month’s Foreign Policy, Vali Nasr, professor of international politics at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and author of The Rise of Islamic Capitalism: Why the New Muslim Middle Class Is the Key to Defeating Extremism says, Although not quite the global consumer behemoth that is Christmas, Ramadan comes in a respectable second. Yes,…
Written on July 16, 2010
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