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Media's dinosaurial monster

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:16:13 -0500

With time, I am getting increasingly intimidated and disturbed by the media around me, especially electronic. Drama, hype, big words, suspense documentaries and dreadful background music. The reporting style is too melodramatic and filmy - almost poking fun at a tragic event or ridiculing a disastrous situation.

I don't know if it is my ultra-sensitivity to unfortunate happenings or keennes to concentrate on remmedial solutions rather than endlessly pondering at an event and the damage caused.

It seems to me too much of the same is being feeded into our minds and hearts. ...

Exercising our franchise

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:42:07 -0400

Advanced polling for our federal elections is already underway and it seems, at least by the polls, that the incumbent government might just sneak past with a victory. Without taking sides, I think the victory would probably have more to do with a lack of serious options rather then the governance of the 'defending champions'.

A Canada Election study indicates that almost the entire decline (~10%) in voter turnout over the last 15 years is due to the 18-24 age group. This is unalarming, though, and the trend has been seen in many countries across the gl...

Positively Negative Syndrome

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:01:54 -0400

..Is what a lot of us experience on a regular basis, especially when it comes to professional decisions. Personally, it seems to be that the second or third thoughts regarding a particular decision seem to be negatively inclined. It is often a case of one foot in the positive and the other in the negative territory! This slip is called Positively Negative by the author of the article whose link is attached below. I can partially relate to that.