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Offensive comments ruining Twitter

Why don’t women feel welcome in the world of technology?If you look for it — and even when you don’t — every week brings at least a couple news items in which someone spouts a horribly offensive, racist or sexist thing on Twitter.Twitter — the most self-centered thing to come out of ...

No solution

The self-congratulatory speeches by members of Congress last week were a joke.Anyone tuning in, particularly as members of the Senate patted their own backs for their bipartisan deal to end the debt ceiling/shutdown standoff, might have thought that the elusive “grand bargain” to balance ...

‘Rebuilding Uncle TomĢƵ Cabin’

In the classic novel, “Uncle TomĢƵ Cabin,” Harriet Beecher Stow presented the inspirational and tragic tale of a 19th century Kentucky slave named Uncle Tom. Though the story is fictional, the over-all theme, the setting and many of the details, were in fact based on actual personal ...

Whom to blame?

The Lincoln Memorial is swathed in police-line tape, national parks are closed from the Everglades in Florida to Mount Denali in Alaska, and an estimated 800,000 federal employees have packed up potted plants and gone home indefinitely.So whom is to blame?Is it the group of roughly two dozen ...

Tea Party gets its wish with shutdown

When it comes to politics, I try to stay balanced.I try to see the other sideĢƵ perspective, save the insults and acknowledge flaws in my own party and worldview.Call me a bleeding-heart liberal if you want, but I think empathy and rationality go a long way toward solving problems.But with ...