Name: Christopher J Falvey
Dateline: Chicago, IL
Weblog: www.vnvo.com [RSS]
Articles: 19
First Published: Friday, April 22, 2005
Last Published: Friday, March 24, 2006
Currently listing articles 19-1:
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War on Terror, War of Culture— The War on Terror, as it is constituted, will fail, because we're forgetting the one great weapon: our culture.
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The Value Chasm: Fake Prada Handbags and Terrorism— We hear a lot about the connection between terrorism and the black market - real-world cause-and-effect isn't so black and white
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Fraction of a Vision: Political Documentaries vs. Mundane Reality— With the expansion of the importance of political documentaries on our culture, and conflict has arisen: the dichotomy between the sensational (and often treacherous) vision
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Liquid Laws and America's Security Technology Quandary— The argument over new security technologies in America seem to always center around the proverbial "Big Brother Police State." However, this is not the paramount
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Clamoring for Scandal, Selling America Short— Is the Plame/Libby/Rove controversy really news?
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DNA Screening and the Fear of Equality in the Job Market— The Chicago Bulls explore DNA screening for future health risks of one of their players, and some day such testing may be used for every
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Baseball Playoffs and the Peril of an Average Culture— The evolution of the baseball playoffs- where now even losing teams now have a shot at winning- tells us a lot of about our culture.
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The Anti-War Movement: A Cause Without an Issue— In the national debate on the war in Iraq, there has been surprisingly little debate on, well, the war coming from the anti-war crowd. Not
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The Life Expectancy Endgame— Or: How to win every argument dealing with the physical, mental or moral health of Americans.
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Atlas Misled: UN Book Exposes Flaws of Environmentalist Argument— The UN recently released an atlas "revealing the global devastation of man." Upon a closer look, what is included in the book does not help
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New Orleans Disaster: A Test Of Cultures, Failed— Taking a look at the disaster in New Orleans, what we find is frightening.
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Rove and Plame: It's not about a leak
— As the pundits take turns deifying and then roasting Karl Rove for his supposed involvement in the Valerie Plame leak, there is a much more
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Learning from the British Stoic Reaction— Americans could learn a little something from Britons in the wake of their recent terrorist attacks. Shirking rampant flag waving and tacky memorials, a little
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Our Desire to be Sick: The Healthcare Paradox— Do we really have a healthcare crisis in America? Everyone from the poorest citizens to multi-national companies seem to agree that we do, and
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Lunacy Without a Plan: Today's Democratic Party
— For the Democratic Party, Howard Dean's raging lunacy is not the problem.. Howard Dean's raging lunacy being a problem is the problem. Democrats should take
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The Paradox of Reality Television Fame
— Reality TV has made the "situation" famous, which is different from other pop culture phenomena, where the "individual" is famous.
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Jennifer Wilbanks: They're snatching up our pretty, white women! Film at eleven.— The saga of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks is more than a hoax, it's the perfect representation of how the misdirection of priorities in the media
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Our Lady of the Salt Stain, Patron Saint of the Future of America— This last week, my humble town of Chicago, Illinois was in the miracle-generating crosshairs of The Almighty himself. I am not entirely sure if
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Environmentalism's Perilous Ignorance of the Free Market
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