The resident has yet another great point - US recession might actually have a good side of it. Make us consider more carefully what things we really need to buy or not, or how much more walking or biking we should be doing anyway.
…It might even make us humble!….naw, that’d be an extreme…
U.S. culture has definitely suffered great deterioration - most noticeably in the last 8 years but less noticeably even before that with the coming of adulthood of our king - consumerism.
Like the Resident above our need for positive cultural change in the U.S. is one of the main reasons I go with Obama.
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Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of the op-ed, "The XY Games," discusses gender testing at the Olympic games in Beijing. "China's tests are likely to produce the wrong answers," she writes, "because they measure maleness and femaleness by the wrong yardsticks."
The word "elite" is often used with a pejorative tone these days, and Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed is sick of it. In his recent op-ed, "Elitism Is Not A Dirty Word," he argues that there's nothing wrong with being the best.