Now Age Minute - 1.19.10
The Fog of War
President Obama got populist last week, at least in speech. In announcing a plan to recoup the costs of bailing out Wall Street, Barack displayed a passion unseen from him since, perhaps, his presidential campaign. Read on >>






Now Age Minute - 12.10.09
Looking for Terror in All the Wrong Places
In a bit of Deja Vu, the Obama Administration is playing the Bush-Cheney-Osama fear card in its plan to extend the already longest war America has ever fought.
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Now Age Minute - 11.22.09
Art vs. Science - A Holy War for the American Soul, part 2
In questioning of accepted medical dogma, new studies suggests that cancer screening may be less effective than previously believed, and even risky.
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Now Age Minute - 10.13.09
The Pubic Option
As our elected prostitutes in Congress (Baucus & Friends) pretend to debate various bills to reform health insurance, trying their utmost to give us an illusion of a "public option" in the final bill, results of thirty years of deregulation continue to take a toll on ordinary, working Americans.
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Now Age Minute - 9.6.09
Art vs. Science - A Holy War for the American Soul
Despite the self-serving stoking of his ignorant herd in the debate around health care reform, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is quietly doing something quite useful to improve health care in America.
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Now Age Minute - 7.24.09
The Garden of Ego
As the stock market climbs above 9,000, and big banks post big profits, not everyone is feeling the joy. A recent poll conducted by the Associated Press and mtvU showed nearly half of college students questioned felt "down, depressed or hopeless".
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Now Age Minute - 4.28.09
The Stress Test
The latest victim of stress of American capitalism was found hanging dead in his basement last week.
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Now Age Minute - 4.15.09
In the Land of Oz
Like Dorothy and her companions, Americans have come to the end of the Yellow Brick Road, and reached the Land of Oz. Still, it seems there's another pulling back of the curtain each week, revealing another scam.
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Now Age Minute - 11.5.08
America Grows Up
With the election yesterday of Barack Obama to be the 44th President of the United States, America collectively matured into a society of adults.
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Now Age Minute - 7.14.08
A Lighter Shade of Green
Many Progressive voters who helped Obama to become the prospective Democratic nominee for president are now questioning their support of the candidate.
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Now Age Minute - 7.6.08
Death Of The American Mask
It was a glaring example of America's de-masking when Starbucks announced this week that it will close 600 stores in the US.
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Now Age Minute - 6.23.08
Learning From Tim
Veteran television newsman, Tim Russert, died last Friday at the age of 58, the result of a severe heart attack.
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Now Age Minute - 6.11.08
Hero or Wedge?
Unless you've been on Mars for the past few days, or stuck in the John, you know that Hillary Clinton conceded the race for the Democratic Party's nomination for president last weekend, and gave her support to Barack Obama.
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Now Age Minute - 5.27.08
The Trifecta of Sub Prime
The power of the American advertising industry has shown its strength once again, this time in the area of prescription drugs.
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Now Age Minute - 3.9.08
The Hope-a-Dope
In a desperate display of politics-as-usual, the two-headed Clinton avoided relinquishment to irrelevance by winning primaries in Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island.
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Now Age Minute - 2/13/08
Yes We Can, But So Can They
Just when you thought it was safe to return to democracy again, the dirty reality of the Democratic National Committee's system of choosing a presidential candidate is coming out into the light.
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Now Age Minute 8/13/07
The Unlightenment of America
Proving there's no stop to our moral decline, it appears that Alberto Gonzales is about to become the U.S. Killer in Chief.
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Now Age Minute - 8/6/07
A Drug Trade
In case you were wondering if we've totally left the Afghanis to the warlords and the Taliban, America has succeeded in planting roots of Western-style insanity in the war-torn society, in the form of television.
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Now Age Minute - 7/30/07
Us and Them
Individualism, a hallmark characteristic of what it means to be an American, may also be our societal Achilles' Heel.
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Now Age Minute - 7/16/07
United State of Addicted
Just when you thought Americans had covered all the bases in addicted behavior, a Reno, Nevada couple blew the doors off the barn.
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Now Age Minute - 7/9/07
The End of Experience?
In the latest move in America's perpetual, dysfunctional relationship with their food, Congress will attempt (underscore "attempt") to put an already passed country-of-origin labeling law into effect in advance of the law's Republican-crafted delay (I know it sounds confusing).
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Now Age Minute - 6/25/07
Listen, Do You Want To Know A Secret?
In the latest plunge into the pervasive pool of self-help (i.e., self-absorption), Americans, by the millions, are discovering a video, and companion book, called, "The Secret", only to discover that the only secret is that there is really no secret to living a happy and fulfilled life.
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Now Age Minute - 6/17/07
Cereal Killers
With fanfare and self-congratulation exclusively reserved for government and industry types, Kellogg's just announced a change in their marketing policy, in which they'll stop advertising many of their products to kids under 12.
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Now Age Minute - 6/7/07
The Middle Stinger
As we humans are quibbling, fighting, and even killing each other over matters mostly economic and religious in nature, bees around the world are hopping on the last hive out of town.
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