USA Today – Thang Nguyen 555

07/14/2012

Ignore it!

Willful ignorance, kicking the can further down the road. Hoping it lands on someone else’s front yard. Problems got ignored, because if solved, it’s gonna cost. Penn State pedophile problem is one. One of us vs societal rule of law, subjectivity vs objectivity, warm feelings vs calm rationality. I read JoePa’s son’s op-ed in USA…

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06/09/2011

Trading down: Gap to Goodwill

You know how good the economy is by seeing how many Hummers are on the street. But we 2.5 per cent growth 1Q 2013, we go from Hummers to Hyundai, from Gap to Goodwill. With 90% debt level, half-a-million debt per man woman and child, trading down is the least of our worries (Patriotic millionaires asked to pay more tax,…

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01/25/2011

The tough gets going

Steelers‘ number 33 and 34. Back to basics. One yard at a time to Super Bowl. On the field or off it, we have to retrench and defragment. USA Today cover story features “the faces of today’s unemployed”, showing a nuclear family, sitting in the back of the family pick-up truck, with two beautiful young…

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12/03/2010

All about finishing!

How would you like to keep up at third place, just to have your legs give in at the last-minute? That’s what happened to SF track star, who managed to crawl to the finishing line. http://abcnews.go.com/US/injured-high-school-runner-crawls-finish-line-push/story?id=12298473 In the late 70’s, it’s all about running. Then we learned more about knee injuries. So we took up…

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