Google has been amping up its powers with its advertising platform, Google AdWords. Meanwhile most people have been going about their daily lives unaware that they’re quite literally being targeted throughout their day.
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American Bard: Bob Dylan Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
Anyone who has listened to Dylan’s songs has known that they are pure poetry.
Read More »Sinister Clown Sightings Prove the Joke Is On Us
With apologies to the great Cole Porter, all the world does not love a clown.
Read More »Alicia Machado’s Story Proves That Beauty Pageants Should Be Gone With the Wind
It would seem that it is time to dispense with these annual charades that advertise themselves as contests that supposedly empower women but do nothing more than qualify and objectify them.
Read More »October 1: United Nations International Day of Older Persons
But we shouldn't need the UN, or a special day, to make an effort to understand the aged, and to become not only patient but respectful.
Read More »Hero of the American Taxpayer: Why Clinton Won’t Draw Much Blood from Trump’s Tax Return Secrecy
Hillary Clinton shouldn't expect to score major political points by implying, or even showing, that Donald Trump doesn't pay his personal income taxes. It just puts him in a place where we all, at least on some level, wish we could be.
Read More »15th Anniversary of 9/11 – Never Forgetting Not a Choice For Some of Us
15 years have gone by, but it is like 15 seconds in eternity.
Read More »New School Year Should Not Mean Loss of Meals for African Children
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warns that more than 1.3 million children in West and Central Africa may lose their school meals in the coming weeks.
Read More »Back to School Blues – It’s Not Just the Kids Who Have Them
When I was a kid I always dreaded the calendar turning to September, and now I feel the same way as a parent.
Read More »John Lennon’s Assassin Denied Parole Again – Why He Should Never Go Free
Chapman should be forced to sit in a room for the rest of his life with huge pictures of John Lennon on all the walls, listening to the song “Imagine” played over and over again.
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