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i am a 48 year old systems analyst who obviously has too much time on his hands. my real name is yehuda harmor and my nickname is udi but i have two cats "fluffy" and "lucy" who should take some credit for keeping me sane (a fact not universally accepted)

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Politics, News & Issues > Environmental Awareness Easy ways your family can "go green": 43 of 219

Although I feel like an environmentalist at heart, the last decade has seen me become increasingly demoralized about the state of the world. As predictions of planetary doom and gloom increased, trying to do anything about it seemed futile. Coupled with this, our family's financial situation has been less than ideal so while...
Society & Lifestyle > Gender Issues Does biology or society have a stronger influence on the development of our gender identity?: 2 of 10

I used to believe that gender (as opposed to sex) was almost entirely due to socialisation. Some friends with children thought otherwise but I am opinionated and headstrong and managed to ignore their objections. This is the story of the complete reversal in my position on this issue. My Wife and I shared the notion that gen...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: A hayride: 8 of 31

High and mighty. Once upon a time there was Sam. Sam grew up with his brothers and sisters in their corner of the world and his early childhood years were happy if unremarkable. He enjoyed playing with his friends and impressed his peers and even adults with his smart brain and sharp wit. People said he was gifted or somethi...
Politics, News & Issues > Economic News Assessing Pepsi's selling tap water as spring water in Aquafina: 3 of 10

Although I would expect nothing more than deceitful money grubbing behaviour from any large corporation, I think it noteworthy that in this case Pepsi's customers are no worse off than drinkers of competing products. it is true that some sources of water have acquired reputations for their health giving qualities based on th...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Humorous stories of job loss & unemployment: 24 of 63

Very generous employment conditions In 1976 after dropping out of University I took a job on the production line at the Ford Motor Company in Petone New Zealand. The job involved "dry sanding" which was hard, monotonous and soul-less work. After Four Days and 3 Hours, I couldn't stand it any longer and just handed in my glov...
Politics, News & Issues > Drug Laws & Prevention The continued epidemic of drug use means we've lost the war on drugs: 12 of 28

The US government's so called war on drugs is a war being fought against a major section of the US economy. Estimates of the drug trade in the US alone (the worlds largest per capita consumer)tend to range about several hundred Billion Dollars per annum. Winning such a war would be hard enough even if it was brilliantly conc...
Politics, News & Issues > International Politics (Other) The country predicted to be a world power in 50 years: 5 of 10

This might be hard to write a hundred words about. World power status has always taken many years to develop and also to wane so seeing 50 years into the future seems like no trouble at all. clearly, the US will still be a world power though perhaps on the wane. India and China are already emerging as economic and military p...
Sciences > Psychology Why people suffer: 3 of 6

Leaving aside the question of what constitutes suffering, I think the look for the cause of suffering needs to be split into two activities. We need to look at the proximate (direct/immediate) cause and the ultimate (overall/initial) causes of suffering. The proximate cause of suffering can probably be defined in neurochemic...
Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Are you a racist?: 31 of 56

I guess that to be a racist one must discriminate against people unfairly, on the basis of race. For that to happen, one would have to recognise and accept the concept of race first. I therefore cannot be a racist. I am a rational being and like many thinking people I appreciate taxonomy for classifying things into distinct ...
Society & Lifestyle > Personal Morals & Values It is too easy to be corrupt: 4 of 7

I would like to say I agree with the proposition - it is too easy to be corrupt. It is very easy to take an absolutist moral stand on this issue but I would like to differentiate between regular large scale fraud and corruption and the small and perhaps immoral acts committed by people every day. I will agree that in some se...