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Len OppenheimEconomics 8 Mar 2011
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Trying to make my point more clearly by Len Oppenheim Comment (0)
Musing #1343:  “If the only prayer you say is ‘Thank you,’ that will suffice.” —Meister Eckhart
 
Thanks to the many of you who provided me feedback. I think that the point of my comments about what society does or does not permit a woman to do with her body was not clear to everyone.
 
First, I love men and I love women. I love them differently and I treat them differently. I discriminate. 
PoliticsLen OppenheimEconomics 8 Mar 2011
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Dangerous Thoughts from an Idle Mind by Len Oppenheim Comment (0)
Musing #1342
 
“A woman is always a fickle, unstable thing.” —Virgil (Aeneid)
 
“The usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.” Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind)
 
I love people. I love my friends, be they female or male, liberal or conservative, married or single, gay or straight, and rich or poor. I try to respect all strangers regardless of race, color, religious
Len OppenheimIowa newsEconomics 24 Feb 2011
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Paradigms: Why They are Important by Len Oppenheim Comment (0)

“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”  Niels Bohr
 
Musings #1341. Attached is a link to one of those cutsie cartoons that have become so popular. This one pokes some holes in the arguments of the Climate Change proponents. I think it makes some good points. However, as a good friend pointed out to me, many of the “deniers” have a financial interest in
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2011 Fairfield Business Edge by Burt Chojnowski Comment (1)

Have you ever found yourself trying to come up with words to describe Fairfield to someone who’s never had a “Fairfield experience?” Or do you have friends who raise their eyebrows when you try to explain to them that Fairfield really is a model community for entrepreneurship and sustainability initiatives nationwide? It’s widely known that Fairfield’s vibrant community is something unique for

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The Wolf by Rustin Larson Comment (0)
The wolf loved me.  She let me nuzzle into her clean grey fur which smelled like pine needles and fresh snow.  I hugged her.  She was patient and accepting.  Powerful.  Because I loved her, I thought it best to guide her back to the enclosure where she would be safe from the village and its rifles.  But she nipped me quickly on the thumb and I bled strangely, thick, runny, red and yellow, like a