Murphy Daley is a long-time BlogCritic. Murphy’s first book The Parable of Miriam the Camel Driver draws from her experience in corporate America to examine the bigger questions about balancing career and creativity. Currently she is working on a travel memoir in Claremont, Ca.
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Mattel Says: All Your Bratz Are Belong To Us
No way would a child of mine be playing with these dolls that truly belong in the virtual reality section of an Adult DVD store.
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A Fable: Oscar the Orange Grower, or Why Wealth Redistribution Doesn't Work
A sweet little fable about oranges.
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Iceland's Bank Accounts Are Frozen
This economic crisis is a challenge to the European Union's newly achieved economic status.
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Irrational Political Rage
I see anger from the left, and my friend sees it from the right. It's not really possible to say which is stronger.
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Book Review: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Some books take on an importance that's hard to explain after the fact.
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401K Plans, Upward Mobility, and Free Market Forces
OH NO! the individual is in charge!
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California Politics Cut the Fat
Bustamante doesn't want to be insurance commissioner. He wants to be the Richard Simmons of the new millennium.
I definitely underestimated this book.
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TV Review: The Red Green Show
It’s a nice change to have a truly entertaining show that’s utterly clean. Comedy that’s not shocking? That takes talent.
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Book Review: Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
"Lawrence maintained that it was his finest work." I can tell that it fishes deep into the spirit of the time.
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