Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Dec 8, 2009, 9:38 am
In the past month I've had about a good half dozen medical appointments and at not one of them -- not one! -- was I ushered in without a wait, even though I was perfectly on time, often early. One...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Dec 4, 2009, 8:38 am
This week I banged out a story late in the day, tired and rubbing against deadline, and it came back from the copy editor without a scratch. "Perfect," she said. I realized then that I had become one ...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Dec 1, 2009, 8:55 am
What's with the near-obsessive repetition of this shriek of terror? It's ubiquitous. And silly. ‘Mommy, I don’t want to die. I love you,’ was the alleged plea of Louisiana nine-year...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Nov 30, 2009, 9:03 am
Abe Pollin may not get a Rot In Hell Award, but that's because he's too insignificant to deserve hell. Purgatory will do. In any case, what's with stiletto sharp columnist Maureen Dowd of ...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Nov 17, 2009, 10:36 am
Should the public be spared the gory details of unpleasant things such as war or rape, asks a participant in a discussion.* Is there no role for narrative that tells us in the first person what certai...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Nov 15, 2009, 10:34 am
Thursday, my busiest day, I couldn't write a post on The Washington Post front page news that the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington threatened to discontinue the services to the poor provided und...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Nov 11, 2009, 12:59 am
The story has been repeatedly told of a visit by Ralph Waldo Emerson to Henry David Thoreau when the latter was in jail for refusing to pay taxes to support the Mexican-American War. “Henry, wh...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Nov 7, 2009, 4:17 pm
The same people who will cheer a single-payer or public option health reform, will fall silent when the suggestion wanders toward abolishing the gambling system known as stock exchanges (even if indiv...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Nov 6, 2009, 1:32 pm
How did we get from an arrest on a 30-year-old bench warrant to the airing of emotionally charged personal experience as the basis for judging "l'affaire Polanski"? I plead guilty to having been d...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Oct 31, 2009, 11:59 am
It's a pleasant surprise in middle age when you run across something you have never heard before, something that stops you dead in your tracks to make you ponder. This happened to me with this eth...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Oct 28, 2009, 10:22 am
Sunday, reading The New York Times I came across a gem of an epigram, within a question, quoted in a book review, from what seems to be a very experimental, deeply philosophical novel. This gem follow...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Oct 20, 2009, 2:52 pm
There's a disturbing one-sidedness among women blogging and commenting about public, unwanted, but perfectly legal male attention in a way that paints the man as a figurative predator and the woma...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Oct 18, 2009, 6:20 pm
... the invasion of Iraq was a distracting error that should never have happened. The mission in Afghanistan should never be confused with stabilizing or in any way changing or influencing that co...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Oct 12, 2009, 7:26 am
In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue and, beyond that, no one ever quite agreed what happened next. In the English speaking world, unparalleled Spanish cruelty coupled with Catholic obscurantism de...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Oct 6, 2009, 12:30 pm
Having put on my rotten-tomato resistant armor, allow me to raise an issue that's been bothering me for some time: did the alleged advances of women since the 1970s really improve overall economic...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Oct 4, 2009, 1:08 pm
I feel right in the midst of the Zeitgeist. In yesterday's Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor sang a very funny song about being "unfriended" on Facebook, featuring a couple of verses that w...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Oct 1, 2009, 4:33 am
For all those clamoring to see Roman Polanski extradited for his 32-year-old statutory rape, the fact that is forgotten here is that determination of guilt is no longer a legal issue. Polanski agreed ...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Sep 30, 2009, 10:13 am
I didn't want to believe Bill Maher when he offered as a "new rule" that "Democrats are the new Republicans." But reading the votes against the health reform public option in the Senate Finance Co...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Sep 29, 2009, 10:43 am
Do all officials answer reporters questions these days with a questions? No.  But does it help those who do wiggle out of a tight spot? Sure. Why do they do that? Have I said they do? Do you...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Sep 28, 2009, 1:47 pm
With the second new season episode of himym (google it!) coming up tonight, all bets are off Robin Sherbatsky being the second m, except ... ... if "future" Ted at some point begins a story by te...
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Cecilieaux Bois de Murier posted an article on Antipodes - Sep 26, 2009, 2:02 pm
The news is everywhere that Iran wants to build a nuclear weapon and is deceiving the West (meaning the USA mainly) about this. But why shouldn't Iran have nuclear weapons and why should Iran be ...
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