Archive for September 16th, 2008

You’ve got to be kidding!!

“He did this,” (holding up his BlackBerry) “Telecommunications of the United States, the premiere innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create, and that’s what he did. He both regulated and de-regulated the industry.” – Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain’s senior...
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Election 2008: Women, Tokenism and Exclusion

According to the Wikipedia,”Tokenism refers to a policy or practice of limited inclusion of members of a minority group, usually creating a false appearance of inclusive practices, intentional or not. Typical examples in real life and fiction include purposely including a member of a minority race …into a group. Classically, token characters have some...
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