May 2011
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“There was a big accident today. Everybody survived!”
– Johnny P. on what the news should be.
Thinking of using it as the title of a blog.
April 2011
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A Little Black Book
Imagine my surprise upon stumbling into a museum to avoid the rain while I was visiting New York City and finding pictures of Jesus.
Disconcerting? Slightly. But the explanation was just amazing. Jacques Goudstikker was a prominent art dealer in Amsterdam when the Nazis took over. Hilter even chose some of the pieces in J.G.’s collection containing works from the Old Masters.
Since his...
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cheetos3 asked: gold was at 1505 at one point today, just thought you would be interested to kno.
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Chain Texts
I received my first “chain mail” text today! As Winnie the Pooh would say, “Oh, bother.”
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Strange Dream
I bought a car without ever seeing what it looked like. Isn’t that silly? It turned out to be a huge blue Jeep with a bent hood and a bullet hole in the front. As horrified as I was, I told the salesperson to send it to my house with me silently praying that I could sell it for more than I bought it. I emptied my entire bank account to buy this mystery car, and it turned out to be junk!
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Serious Eats →
I need to stop reading this website when I haven’t had breakfast! I heart food.
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Airport Security
StudentNewsDaily summarizes liberal and conservative beliefs in this chart. I am merely commenting on each section, one at a time. I welcome comments. I appreciate counterpoints!
Even though the furor surrounding airport security has died down, it has finally appeared on my list of topics to discuss.
Liberals say that passenger profiling is wrong and that selection of passengers for extra...
Gold at $1500: We're almost there, folks! →
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Euthanasia
I believe that euthanasia should be legalized. Why do we force tax payers to bear the cost of medical care for someone who has lost the will to live at all? HOW DOES THIS MAKE SENSE?
If you say that these practices devalue human life, look at some of the ways we treat the living.
If it were up to me, I would make the practice well-documented (aka tedious) and have the patient undergo counseling...
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“All politics is moral. Political leaders put forth proposals on the assumption...”
– George Lakoff (via azspot)
NYC
How things can change so easily from morning until afternoon. We’re going to be in NYC for a long weekend in May! Can’t wait to see some old friends and family and be back on the East Coast. Hooray! Do you have any recommendations?
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I Miss Republicans. →
No, seriously. Remember Republicans? Sober men in suits, pipes, who’d nod thoughtfully over their latest tract on market-driven fiscal conservatism while grinding out the numbers on rocket science. Remember those serious-looking 1950’s-1960’s science guys in the movies — Republican to a one.
They were the grown-ups. They were the realists. Sure they were a bummer, maaaaan, but on the way to La...
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Energy
Oil is a depleting source. Other sources of energy must be explored. The changes to the climate are irrefutable. Support increased production of wind, hydroelectric and solar power. Support government control of gas and electric companies.
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“Weight Loss: It’s 85% diet and 15% exercise.”
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Groupon Now and Living Social Instant Deal
On March 7, Living Social launched their Instant Deal currently available only to Washington, D.C. featured in its mobile application. The users can pull up deals in their area within a half-mile and is only good for a short amount of time (time and location dependent). Groupon is expected to launch Groupon Now sometime this month.
Groupon Now will give the user two options: “I’m...
AZspot: Representative Democracy →
azspot:
laliberty:
Ours is a republic, not a democracy. Democracy is simply mob rule, and I thought leftists were big on the whole “just because you’re the majority doesn’t mean you’re right” stuff.
A republic is a form of democracy, namely, representative democracy, as opposed to Athenian…
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Intellectual Prostitution and the Myth of... →
In this regard, John Swinton, who worked at The New York Times and The New York Sun and in various writing gigs from the 1860s to the eve of the 20th century, reminds us that it’s always been about selling copies, that this business of news is just that. Swinton, on a night of drinking with his colleagues in 1880, was asked to make a toast to the “independent press.” He stood up and famously...
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“I say that at a time when the tax burden on the wealthy is at its lowest level...”
– President Obama (via washingtonexaminer)
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Some Thoughts and Questions About Tax
Employees should know what the salary will be pre- and post-tax. It’s good to encourage realistic spending. You may think that you’re getting $50,000 a year, but if it’s only $37,000, that $4000 bike is more expensive than you think.
All retail prices should reflect tax.It sucks when you budget $50 at the grocery store and then forgot to multiply 1.07 to figure out what the...
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Why the Right should hate "Waiting for Superman" →
But knowing the Right is singing the praises of the film, I have to ask, Why? If you look into the three schools the film spotlights as examples of educational success, you find all of them spend far more money per student than public schools, and 2 out of 3 believe you can’t improve education for disadvantaged kids without dealing with their out-of-school environments. Conservatives are trying...
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Embryonic Stem Cell Research
StudentNewsDaily summarizes liberal and conservative beliefs in this chart. I am merely commenting on each section, one at a time. I welcome comments. I appreciate counterpoints!
I support the use of adult and umbilical cord stem cells only for research. It is morally and ethically wrong for the government to fund embryonic stem cell research.
What kind of society are we that we can feel so...
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Baking for Charity (yum!) →
15% of price benefits charity
Great Q&A with the founder Emily Dubner here.
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Tomorrow is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's! →
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Education
It is the responsibility of the government to provide an affordable education from elementary school to graduate school.
How can an entire Nation move forward if its people cannot afford to send their children to be educated so that they can be contributing members to society and to mankind? It stifles creativity, wealth, success, innovation, efficiency, et cetera.
Yes, I believe that the more...
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Jesus would believe in evolution and so should you →
For more than two centuries, careful scientific research, much of it done by Christians, has demonstrated clearly that the earth is billions years old, not mere thousands, as many creationists argue. We now know that the human race began millions of years ago in Africa - not thousands of years ago in the Middle East, as the story in Genesis suggests.
And all life forms are related to each other...
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“My mother thinks that I don’t really have a problem with milk, so she has...”
– My Lactose Intolerant Sister
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“Government officials are letting Google proceed with its $700 million purchase...”
– AP
“Justice Department allows Google to buy travel software company in $700 million deal”
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“Nowadays, more women in their 20s and 30s have bachelor’s degrees than men...”
– LearnVe$t
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Filling the Cracks with Legos →
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Surviving the Day After an All-Nighter →
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Website Idea
Someone should make a mobile app that makes identifying volunteer opportunities easier as well as one great website (versus 10 mediocre ones) that organizes all the information in a logical fashion.
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Economy and the Government
StudentNewsDaily summarizes liberal and conservative beliefs in this chart. I am merely commenting on each section, one at a time.
I welcome comments. I appreciate counterpoints!
Let’s avoid excessive government regulation but try to make regulations that will promote the general welfare of the Union, meaning that we strive to have a low unemployment rate, increase educational efforts, and...
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“What if I f—- it up at the end? What if I do a Lost? Then they’ll come after me...”
– George R.R. Martin (via azspot) the best author ever.
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Death Penalty & Eighth Amendment
StudentNewsDaily summarizes liberal and conservative beliefs in this chart. I am merely commenting on each section, one at a time.
I welcome comments, and I appreciate counterpoints!
Is inflicting death “cruel and unusual?” Yes. So is the death penalty a “cruel and unusual punishment?” Some people deny this. Insane and silly, isn’t it?
In today’s world, the...
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“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and...”
– Amendment VIII of the Bill of Rights of the United States 