Tag: mind

En Vogue – Free your mind
ecthompsonmd July 15, 2007

This group seemed to become a supergroup overnight.  They exploded out of the gates with their first album – Born to Sing.  Hold on and Lies were 2 singles from this record.  Their 2nd album was bigger than their first.  Funky Divas.  They were beautiful and talented.  Many of their songs had meaning like this one – Free Your Mind which is a cover of a George Clinton (of Parliament fame) tune.  They combined funk, hip-hop and rock and roll to get a great sound.  After their 3rd album, Runaway, they kind lost their momentum and never did find their groove

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Changing my mind on Bill Richardson
ecthompsonmd March 5, 2007

Since December, I have been trying to look beyond Hillary and Obama. I like John Edwards. I really liked Vilsack but he is out of the race. Senators Dodd and Biden are good people with a lot of experience but there was something really different about Bill Richardson. Ambassador Richardson was been, well, an ambassador. He has been a senator. He has been Secretary of Energy. He has been Governor. He seems to talk the talk and walk the walk then, yesterday, something very surprising happened that may have turned me off to Bill Richardson forever. He got an endorsement from

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FEMA misunderstands democracy
ecthompsonmd July 27, 2006

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has placed a gag order on residents in FEMA trailer parks.  All interviews with journalists must be done with the FEMA official present. It appears that FEMA has changed its mind.  It is also possible that some congressional pressure helped the change.  The gag order has been lifted. Where is the democracy in our democracy?

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