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Bush Says Bye-Bye in The Onion

By Denis Campbell • Dec 7th, 2008 • Category: Reflections
 
I’m Really Gonna Miss Destroying This Place
By George W. Bush
Oh, America. Eight years went by so fast, didn’t they? I feel like I hardly got to know you and methodically undermine everything you once stood for. But I guess all good things must come to an end, and even though you know I would love [...]


Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove

By Denis Campbell • Dec 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics
 
By Denis Campbell
As Chancellor of the Washington DC Public School system, Michelle Rhee, 38, has tipped public education on its end in Washington, DC gaining a lot of high-powered fans and a few enemies. She was an unwitting reference during the 3rd Presidential debate as John McCain and Barack Obama disagreed on whether or not [...]


Dutch Smoking Ban Leaves Cannabis Coffee Shops In Legal Limbo

By Denis Campbell • Dec 7th, 2008 • Category: Business Issues
 
by Denis Campbell
As appears on the Huffington Post World Page
Almost everyone knows coffee drinking is the last reason anyone visits an Amsterdam Coffee House. Stroll into one of the many flag festooned café-like establishments along the Kalverstraat and you are handed a unique menu that instead of Kenyan, Javanese or Blue Mountain beans, contains the [...]


Holiday Gloom in Silicon Valley

By Denis Campbell • Dec 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics Too
 
by Carl Bloice –
A couple of days before Thanksgiving one of my downstairs neighbors matter of factly told me he had lost his job. He’d been abruptly laid off by a local information technology startup company. “They let go so many people I don’t know how they are going to get the work done,” he [...]


MSM Slams Deepak, Runs Scared, Again

By Denis Campbell • Dec 4th, 2008 • Category: Features
 
By Denis Campbell
Indian doctor and self-help guru Dr. Deepak Chopra’s CNN interview about the Mumbai terror tragedy was edited to create a sanitised, less-controversial and, perhaps, more patriotic version of the events in Mumbai and Pakistan. When this hit the airwaves Chopra objected. Then Dorothy Rabinowitz of the sometimes mind-bogglingly crazy The Wall Street Journal [...]


I’m all a Twitter, Now What?

By Denis Campbell • Dec 4th, 2008 • Category: Business
 
By Denis Campbell
So are millions of others but founder and CEO Evan Williams said yesterday “The revenue’s coming soon, but I won’t tell you how” at a Churchill Club business event in San Francisco as he brushed aside criticism that the company is slow to generate revenue. That does seem to be a repetitive theme [...]


Don’t Take the Deal Senator

By Denis Campbell • Dec 4th, 2008 • Category: Reflections
 
By Denis Campbell
GM, a business now worth $3 billion dollars, is asking Congress for a bailout of $15 billion, be allowed to keep present management in place – the one’s who created this fiasco and for us to trust them that after dozens of years of getting it so very, very arrogantly wrong, they now [...]


TIA Ignore At Your Peril

By Denis Campbell • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: Features
 
By Denis Campbell
11:00, Saturday morning. I’d finished frying an egg, was headed to the office to finish a poker article I was on deadline for. As I walked across the room, my 6-year old asked me a question. A second later I was standing with arm stiffened hard against the wall, holding my entire body’s [...]


Transient Ischaemic Attack

By Denis Campbell • Dec 1st, 2008 • Category: Features
 
from the Website Patient.co.uk
A transient ischaemic attack (TIA) is a set of symptoms that lasts a short time and occurs because of a temporary lack of blood to part of the brain. It is sometimes called a ‘mini stroke’. However, unlike a stroke, the symptoms are transient and soon go. (The word ‘ischaemic’ means a [...]


Morning in Mumbai

By Denis Campbell • Nov 29th, 2008 • Category: Features
 
By Denis Campbell
60-hours of madness ended with Indian officials claiming they shot the last gunman holed up in the Taj hotel. Dawn broke this morning and officials try to sort through the mess. 10-sites including train stations, community centres, hospitals, restaurants and luxury hotels were targeted. Jewish, American and British citizens were targeted, 195 killed, [...]


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