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After the first one the page received a slight redesign, and the image now needs to accomodate the column header in the upper part, looks like so:

Here's that image again, it's about the Boy Scouts and how their new policy of excluding members and troop leaders based on sexuality is going to tarnish the organization and what they stand for, and the outlook for the future of the organization.



Next one's about the city of Galveston, which has been devastated by a series of hurricanes and the federal government has earmarked funds for public housing to help rebuild the city. The mayor of Galveston is against public housing and he does not want to take federal money.



Below is about the 82nd Legislature session, which surprisingly seems to have plenty of money to distribute, but the question is whether the legislators will actually spend it or if they'll just hoard it.



This one's about how over the past several decades the state has shifted toward a more urban economy, but despite that, most of the population still identifies with Texas's rural past of hardscrabble frontiers, ranching and agriculture.



This one's about a proposed tax swap- or trying to avoid it. With the tax swap, all property taxes would be eliminated and replaced with sales tax. The key idea about the tax swap is that its proponents see it as an issue of liberty, that the government has no right to tax a person's private property.



About the political push to muscle Texas from a Republican state into a Democratic state. Texas has been voting solidly Republican since the mid-90s, but now Democrats—both local and national—are determined to shift the red state blue.



This one's about state funding for Medicaid expansion. The legislature is debating whether or not (most likely not) to extend coverage for children, single mothers, people with low incomes, and the poor elderly.



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About "The Dark Knight Rises" being almost Ayn Rand-ian, as the Batman seems to have become a a brooding, self-serious douche who lives in a gigantic mansion (refusing to leave it in an Atlas Shrugged inspired strike), drives a Maybach, and is depressed by our decadence, our disobedience, our refusal to appreciate and treasure the gifts of civilization given to us by noblesse oblige types like his father.



About how people apparently just revel in abuse. From Simon Cowell to Donald Trump to how Mitt Romney, a man who fired people for a living possibly pulls 46% support in any group of voters...



This one's about the NFL, and how modern football seems to inevitably cause ever worse injuries as the athletic level of the players rises. And to just get used to it. 



This one is about Wall Street seemingly paralelling their attemps at market manipulation by providing campaign donations to Romney and not placing their bets with Obama.



The End of Reality. About the way that the media doesn't necessarily report on what happened, but what people want to believe happened, and how you as a consumer of news can always find sources of information that tailor facts to your biases.



Last one's about bunch of other reasons to pay attention to basketball this year, despite the NBA finals being pretty much a foregone conclusion (Heat, Lakers) before the season even starts.



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Second one is about start ups (specifically in Silicon Valley) and how many of the most exciting and innovative companies can't get their show on the road and the workers they need since the budget in California has been cut a billion dollars... AD: Aviva Michaelov



Next one is about how climate change (failed harvests, droughts etc.) might be just as much a reason for the Arab Spring movement as the political motivations. AD: Aviva Michaelov / Alicia DeSantis



This one is about how national American politics these days is sorely missing true leaders. AD: Aviva Michaelov



This one Tom wrote from Cairo, taking a closer look at the Egyptian revolution (almost) a year later... AD: Aviva



This one's about how "Average is over. Just doing an average job in an average way will no longer bring an average lifestyle. Too many machines, software programs or cheap foreign workers or geniuses can now offer above average and are easily and cheaply available". AD: Aviva



Topic here: "The hyper-connecting of the world through social media and web-enabled cellphones and tablets is changing the nature of conversations between leaders and led in every institution – and I am not at all convinced that it is for the better. We are going from primarily one-way conversations – top-down -- to overwhelmingly two-way conversations – bottom-up and top-down. We are seeing two-way conversations now AT SCALE. Today, everyone can talk back". AD: Erich Nagler



Last one's about "What worked for China these past thirty years – a massive Communist Party-led mobilization of cheap labor, capital and resources -- is not going to work much longer" and how hard the job of running China will be in the next decade... AD: Erich Nagler



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And the inside illos...







Story number two is about a cleaning lady from the Phillipines living and working in Qatar. Her daily routine, different employers, the three men she's involved with, her dealings with the religious issues in said country etc...





Third one is about the German Author James Kruess. About his most famous book, Timm Thaler, wherein a boy who sells his smile to an older man (the older man/ younger boy is a theme in all of his books). About his problems with being a homosexual man in Germany in the sixties (and subsequent departure from said country to Gran Canaria) and his autobiography, which proved to be not quite as revealing as one might have expected.







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