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With another headline about Russia school shooting, I seriously fantasize about the return of the bell-bottom pants, and flower shirts. The age of heightened consciousness, of holding each other’s hands and not holding others hostage. Perhaps then, there was a hot war (Vietnam) broadcasted while we had our TV dinners that young students just went…
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Right now, fireworks and firecrackers are exploding in the air. Let’s Tet again. It’s here after so much anticipation: incense burning, monk praying (years ago, it was monk-burning and napalm exploding).Back then, the nation prayed for peace. Now prosperity. The economy did not do well this past year. That translates to a lot of migrant…
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I have had the opportunities to listen to Reagan, Clinton, Bush and just now Obama’s State of the Union 2014. The applause at the end was the longest, for Cory, a veteran of the Afghan war, soon to be ended. He personifies not only what’s best, but also what’s so burdensome about America’s entanglement in…
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In 1984 the Orwellian prophetic version did not materialize. That year saw the Mac commercial at Superbowl half-time (down with Big Brother). I guessed the underdog was supposed to be Apple Computer (later “Computer” got dropped because Apple wanted to diversify its product), and Big Brother, IBM. Now, we face the NSA vs Snowden (remember…
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The Superbowl committee have been on edge about whether to go ahead with plan B. At least it helps occupied the nation’s attention. Unlike two recent disturbing incidents: one was a random suicide murder in Columbia, MD mall, and an arrest of a Penn State student (Altoona campus) for possession of marijuana and weapon of…
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A few weeks ago, some argument over texting in a Florida movie theater got someone killed. Last week, Kim Dang who had wanted someday to be a talk-show host, got kicked to death outside a revived Santa Ana club (as of this edit, prosecutors are still gathering evidence about the case e.g was Kim walking…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Between Vietnam and China, around this week, close to 1 Billion people get on trains, planes and automobiles, trying to go home on the country side. Catchy label for them would be ” Confucian Consumers”. They will be scrambling on any transport, whether they are black or white (to…
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They said blogs that are amusing go viral quicker. It’s true. Late night talk show hosts have known this for years. They employ an army of writers whose sole job is to come up with quirky and ironic punch lines (with help of a laughing track). Jay Leno, Johnny Carson and Bob Hope all know…
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Those of us who went to school which required students to wear uniforms can relate to this: we learned to fit in. By the time we entered corporate world, the dress code and work-place behavior come as second nature. Yet without differentiation, our products and personal brand get lost in the shuffle. So we try…
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Big box stores can’t keep up with the likes of amazing Amazon. Both categories leverage the economy of scale to earn shares of the retail pie. Both employ strong-arm tactics, logistic and logic of dis-intermediation. Both cut down the touchpoint between buyer-seller to a bare minimum (Walmart greeter greets you so their cashiers don’t have…
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