Les Leopold: The captains of high finance are demanding that we reduce public debt, which we ran up to bail them out and deal with the mass unemployment they caused. That takes a lot of nerve. First they crash the system and run away with a fat pocket of cash. Then they demand that we clean up our financial act or they won't loan out any money. Next time an oil-blackened snowy egret gets you furious at BP, remember to save some righteous indignation for the financial polluters who are picking our pockets. Click here to read more.
Our ability to respond to fast-moving changes in the global technological and demographic environment is hampered by chronic functional problems with the organization in charge, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).
If the Lincoln derivatives amendment passes at least we and the economy have a fighting chance. Without it, the financial reform bill is a joke meant to placate us until the next collapse.
Journalism is an act of seduction. Many times I've done the seducing, in writing big stories and small; I've also been the seduced, slammed with the gut-wrenching morning-after upon reading stories written about me.
Sin -- defined as turning our backs on who God has created us to be -- can also take the opposite form of inordinate self-hate or shame, something that many LGBT people experience from a very early age.
Some public health advocates have singled out sugar as the primary cause of obesity and pointed an accusatory finger at sugar-sweetened beverages as the chief culprit for everyone being so fat. But is this singular focus misguided?
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