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Sarah in the Big Apple
 If you want to give people apoplexy in the circles I travel in on my daily rounds all you need to say, however bland or unthreatening, is that you admire Sarah Palin. Their faces flush with indignation, their fists clench, their eyes dart fire and anger, and one has the impression that you are suddenly relegated in their view to the absolute lowest rung of Dante's inferno.
Since I have never learned the art of social diplomacy and my tongue sometimes acts independently of my natural sense of caution, I find myself in a perpetual single-issue state of conflict with some of my dearest friends and relations.
Thus, I have learned every single laundry list argument against Sarah, a repetitive drumbeat of invective, most of it emotional, indignant and overwrought and, from my perspective, baffling.
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Health Care and the Unhealthy Truth
 Once you filter out the hyperbolic and toxic comments of what passes for political discourse these days, you come up with the only thing that really matters in the recent health care debate…the truth.
To expect politicians to tell the truth is an exercise in misplaced optimism. At its heart the health care debate, however it was couched, was simply a matter of distorting the perfect science of mathematics since there is absolutely positively no way to pay for it without raising income taxes or cutting spending bloated by entitlements and subsidies created by political manipulators on both sides of the aisle.
Why oh why do they lie to us most of the time, perhaps all of the time? Worse. Why do we believe them?
Of course, most of us want health care for all. We are a compassionate people. We do not want a previous health condition to keep any citizen from getting health insurance.
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The iPad and the Dedicated Reader
 I am a great fan of Apple products, own an Apple computer and an iPhone, but I am not yet convinced that the upcoming iPad will dominate as the reading device of choice for e-books. This does not mean that it won’t find its place for all the other applications, especially games and movies and the avalanche of coming iPad apps. Indeed, the technical aspects of the reading experience might even be somewhat superior, albeit temporary, to what is now available in reading devices exclusive to e-books e.g. Kindle and the SONY reader.
The iPad has certain distinct disadvantages for the dedicated reader of books.
Essentially, there are two inhibiting factors, price and portability. Compared to the Kindle, for example, the add on cost for the content will be astronomical for the dedicated reader considering he or she will have to pay more than double the price for the iPad and need an online hookup that will pile on costs.
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