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At every juncture, we give citizens more information as the best way to give them control over their government and freedom in their lives. No one contemplated what might happen if people were given too much information.

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As long as a newspaper’s owners might find themselves behind you in the check-out line at your favorite grocery store, you have an influence that citizens in other cities have lost.

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Mornings are easy to keep uninterrupted, and I’ve made mine like Grandma’s. Warm your hands, do a little work, sip something steaming, consider the day ahead, and savor what may be your only moments of waking calm.

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Is a Big Mac really more dangerous than a repeat offender with a drinking problem who hit his girlfriend and then tore the phone off the wall when she tried to call for help?

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The monopoly on timely information has been broken up. With the addition of smart phones, the Internet has caught and passed newspapers, disseminating information much more quickly.

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I’m sure the Word-A-Day editors enjoyed the alliteration of “an entirely evitable event,” but the phrase is not original to me.

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As publishing paradigms convulse, who will ask if a thot can be expressed with fewer words? For the next little while, maybe Twitter. Kudos.

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The White Stag looks how we are. If it seems we skip steps, or do things out of order, or jump and dart in unexpected ways, it’s become our nature.

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The violence of the show has been well chronicled, but I’ve seen no evidence that it has produced an increase in suburban rocket-launcher sales. Could it be that the show is really extolling something more mundane? Jack Bauer is without a gun more often than he is without his cell phone.

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What more can a newspaper do? I have a suggestion that will save them 20 percent. Stop printing vowels. You may think I’m joking, but think about it. The Torah was written in Hebrew without vowels, and that book seems to have survived pretty well.

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