Some talk isn&#39;t cheap
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.&#39;s swearword in a TV interview after his victory at Talladega costs him the NASCAR points lead and $10,000. A slip of the tongue on TV cost Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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Don&#39;t tell me this is part of sports, life or any kind of world I want to be in. Don&#39;t try to justify it, pick sides or celebrate it like some video-game adrenaline rush.
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We&#39;ve heard from the NHL and the NHLPA, so now let&#39;s get a broader perspective. What we are going to see in the next little while is an increase in the rhetoric, which will get cranked up to an unbelieveable level.
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Oh, I don&#39;t mean the factual debate about John Kerry&#39;s war record. I&#39;m referring to the argument over what sort of speech should be permitted during an election campaign.
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He doesn&#39;t have the swagger of a Texan or the language of a bully. Nor is he talking endlessly about changing the world, crushing recalcitrant leaders and destroying enemies.
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There is growth, but it's not homemade.
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At a time when much of our public discussion is riddled with disagreement, there is an emerging bipartisan consensus in one vitally important area: that the challenges facing
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Experts in a field can benefit from an outsiderâs perspective.
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CONSIDER THE SOURCE. That&#39;s always good advice when evaluating a dispute, and never more true than in recent football developments.
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They're not obvious, and they're not always cheap.
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There are broad talks afoot, according to one participant, who refused to name names or provide any specifics of what's being discussed.
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Practice does not necessarily make perfect. Not many things make perfect, to tell the truth.
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&quot;When someone doesn&#39;t have all the knowledge, they&#39;re speaking almost immaturely about what&#39;s happening. I think these guys were misled and now they&#39;re on the same page.
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Elvis Presley&#39;s &quot;A Little Less Conversation&quot; was pumping through the loudspeakers, aptly enough after a 75-minute political forum.
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You may have seen ads for services offering cheap &#39;&#39;Internet phone calls,&#39;&#39; or heard someone bragging about how little they pay for long distance because they have an Internet phone, and wondered what they were talking about.
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Amazing, but even in this time of goodwill and cheer, some folks are always looking for a fight. A recent exchange with a regular reader got me thinking how divisive things can get.
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&quot;These guys ... (are) not stupid. They&#39;re fighting a war but they&#39;re not savages. They&#39;re not actually just killing people.