by Dan Geddes When you think of Holland, the bicycle stands right up there with dikes, windmills, cheese and wooden shoes. It’s very flat here…
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by Dan Geddes A friend once told me that was Amsterdam was the greatest place on earth, “except for the weather. When you find yourself…
Years ago, back when Al Gore invented the Internet, grammar began to ebb with the tide of changing times. One foot inside the grave, in…
Our society should consider TV watching to be a guilty pleasure, but it really doesn’t. Although educators bemoan the TV time spent by our children,…
Despite expectations that the Presidential election debates would serve as the substantive part of the election campaign, the three debates between Al Gore and George…
by Dan Geddes 15 March 2000 Converting shopping malls into prisons is a cost-effective way to create prison space to house America’s growing population of…
by Dan Geddes 1 March 2000 Smoking cigarettes is a cult, a religion, a philosophy. Like most belief-systems, Smoking separates its adherents from non-adherents, leaving…
15 December 1999 by Dan Geddes Techniques for creating successful religious cults have changed dramatically since the cult heyday of the 1970s. Millions of…
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