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The Oil Crisis Is (Still) Not Like A Toothache: Fighting The "Drill Now" Rhetoric

Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Consumer, Energy, High Gas Prices, John McCain, Drill Now Drill Here Pay Less, Environment, Drilling, Future, Newt Gingrich, Culture, Offshore Drilling Ban, McCain Offshore Drilling, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Martin Bosworth

Many Americans realize that destroying environmental resources to allow more domestic drilling is a psychological panacea -- a placebo to make us feel like "something is being done."

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Recreate 68, the DNC and the Urgent Need to Reinvent Our Political Language

Roberto Lovato | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Culture, Barbarianisms and Other Babel, History, DNC and Obama, Media, The Politics of Language, DNC and Denver, Elections, Activism, Denver Protests, Language and Politics, DNC Protest, Protest Music, Barack Obama, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

"Recreate 68" sounds more like something more appropriate for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young reunion concert than for a movement of our troubled times.

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The Opposite of Voyeurism: Why People Twitter

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 07.02.2008 | Living

Read More: 1984, Friends, Twitter, Digg, Second Life, Cavemen, Facebook, Culture, Friendship, Internet, Loneliness, Youtube, Robert Scoble, Dystopian Films, Blogging, Living News
Michelle Haimoff

Observing large-scale technological phenomena informs us about where the culture's at these days; Twitter might indicate that people are lonely.

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Stuffy Office Environment

Christine Hassler | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Stress, Baby Boomer, The Balanced Life, Workplace, Gen Y, Careerbuilder, Career Advice, Work-Life Balance, Twenty Something, Work Environment, Culture, Living News
Christine Hassler

Baby-boomers did not grow up with messages like "work should be fun" and "be passionate about your career." To them, a job is a job.

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Barack Obama: "Black" Or "Biracial"?

BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

Read More: America, African, Political Language, White, Media Coverage, Obama, Media, Campaign, Race, African American, Culture, Politics, Barack, United States, Black, Biracial, Society, American, News, Home News
BlackAndBrownNews

There is discussion now taking place between mostly white editors and producers in newsrooms on how to identify Senator Barack Obama now that he is the Democratic nominee.

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Story is Everything

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Puerto Rico, Story, Party Politics, Narrative, Spin, Hillary Clinton, Storytelling, Republicans, South Dakota, Democrats, Power of Story, Barack Obama, Culture, Politics News
Lisa Dale Norton

Hillary Clinton is shifting the paradigm and the narrative. Because the story is everything in the culture of politics, these are important shifts to ...

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When You Fall In Love... With A Painting

moreintelligentlife.com | Ariel Ramchandani | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Falling in Love With a Painting, Parmigianino, Art, Painting, Antea, Culture, Lovely Painting, Living News

She's lovely of course, Parmigianino's "Antea." Standing alone in the centre of the Oval Room at the Frick, surrounded by portraits that somehow pale ...

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