The article in Dallas Morning News sums it up well, as to how artless and tasteless JK Rowling has been, in outing Dumbledore as a closeted gay. Her explicitly saying so took away all the room for reader's imagination, on the wise old Dumbledore. I'm dismayed.
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On Microsoft's injection of $240 million to Facebook, thereby valuing it at $15 billion market cap, is simply stupidity. Again, like Skype to eBay, we won't need a very long time horizon to find out how much Microsoft would need to write down. It'll be 2-3 years out, max.
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On the difference in perceived notion of men vs women crying in public, the double standard is an open secret. Men are perceived to be strong, so a show of moisture in eyes would give the impression of modern man's sensitivity. For women, it's a lose-lose proposition. If you do that (or worse still, cry outright), you're perceived as weak; but if you don't, you're heartless. It's a shame.
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And there is more (bad) news of global warming, snow cap and ice sheets melting at alarmingly rapid speed. I'm very worried that the bad deeds by human to the environment has become so pervasive and irreversible that we won't be able to correct it...
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