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I must be crazy and you crazier to touch on these subjects in today’s environment. In today’s environment, one must talk apps, talk data, talk of the town: anti-aging not anti-war, and anti-immigrant not anti-growth. Charlie Wilson of GM once answered a congressional inquiry this way, ” what good for GM is good for the…
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Summer 1975. Double-digit inflation. Unemployment at 17%. Pennsylvania was just getting out of the Arab embargo, and America out of Vietnam. Imagine people tossing babies over barbed wires at the US embassy, or the chaos that ensued when thousands of people scrambling on those river barges or helicopters. The airport was rendered useless, hence Operation…
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This morning, I learned that five more had died in a chase at the would-be Trump wall. The other day, in 100-degrees heat, I saw a homeless lady standing under a tree wearing everything she had on her. They could all be my mother back in 1975, when she was left behind in a PA…
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For my Father “when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose” Bob Dylan I was 9 i.e. first bike and first romance.Not everything was rosy now that I look back to that time. The neighborhood bully destroyed my innocence if not for my father’s swift intervention. We called him “Cu Lon” (to this day,…
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It depends on how far you want to zoom out in space and time: men will look like ants (Apollo’s first photo of the Earth) and the rise of the Nazis , according to a far-right-party guy – will be viewed as a footnote in German history (his clothes were stolen while he was swimming…
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Young folks always assert themselves: in the Graduate, plastics, in Santa Fe, TX, the gun, and in Hanoi, the guitar ( Mai Khoi awarded recent International Prize in Oslo). It’s an unfair comparison to when I was growing up: a refugee kid repeating his parents’ script. But I know one thing – to use George…
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With floods of data, it is not surprising that the number-one skill for living and thriving is how to curate information. Turning trash into treasure. Building our own filters, constructing our own “firewalls”. With the abundance of affordable chipset, people are hoarding images, video, audio and data way above their personal consumption level. Digital glut.…
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I am almost done with ” In the Sanctuary of Outcasts” but I am in no hurry. It gives me pleasure to feel the pulse of America’s last “forbidden outpost”. As a society, we are just as good as our weakest link: veterans, homeless, shut-ins and bottom-feeders. Neil White, inmate-turned-undercover-journalist, tried to give leprosy a…
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A school in PA got a creative idea: it stocks up on rocks to defend itself from school shooting. Traditionally, schools have ample supplies of papers and scissors. With rocks, it completes the Rock, Paper and Scissors set. Quite a sad state of affairs in public schools, whose walk-outs will stage a “March For Our…
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” The poor shall always be with you”. Those words were uttered since Rome was an empire. Now, it’s still ringing true. The force of automation (low-skilled), offshoring (high-skilled but digitized) and policy changes (doing away with the safety net) drag down the unskilled like a perfect storm. In the US of A, people cannot go back…
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