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Politically Correct: Speak No Evil… Not Even at TED

By Val Booth | Published: February 14, 2010
Do you think we’ve gone just a wee bit too far with our insistence on politically correct speech? I value respect and kindness. The well-defined social rules of engagement provide structure and everyone “knows how to behave.” Admittedly, a thoughtful choice of words can smote the flames of a heated argument. A series of [...]
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Screw the Outsider: Self-Serving Zero Sum Games

By Val Booth | Published: February 7, 2010
Amazon.com Widgets Perhaps on a macro-level, non-zero sum games ala Robert Wright, are the way of the world. Perhaps, in total, non-zero is the winning sum. But “screw the outsider,” a decidedly self-serving, zero-sum proposition, is played out on the micro-level in the lives of individuals daily. Scapegoats and whipping boys are the results [...]
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Stealing Babies from Haiti

By Val Booth | Published: February 3, 2010
Why are “missionaries” running down to Haiti for children after being warned not to take children out of Haiti without proper papers? Why is anyone trying to take healthy children out of Haiti without proper documentation? I think Mike Doughney has a good answer to that question in his article about the arrest of PersonalShopper.com CEO [...]
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