You are a Hippie
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(from lucius t on theinferior4)
I seem to have missed two out of 14, which is respectable, I guess.


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Sunday, January 13, 2008 - New York Harbor
"Witness the making of maritime history as fireworks and fanfare mark the first and only meeting of Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth 2 and the new Queen Victoria."

The QE2 is being retired in November, so this really is the only chance to see these three in the same place at the same time ( Read more... )

Re-taking the 'Pres. Candidates Matching Quiz', we now find:

96% Mike Gravel
95% Dennis Kucinich
84% Chris Dodd
84% Barack Obama
83% John Edwards
81% Hillary Clinton
73% Bill Richardson
34% Rudy Giuliani
26% Ron Paul
19% John McCain
15% Mike Huckabee
13% Mitt Romney
5% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching QuizAgain, about right. It's a looonnng ( Read more... )

PBS' NewsHour just did a story about the rustbelt / factory closings in Milwaukee / Bucyrus-Erie welders / training inner-city high school kids in the manufacturing trades (which in passing, raised the question: heck - will there even BE American jobs for welders ( Read more... )

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Given that many of the people I know are actually fairly far out there, I'm certainly interested in my results on this on-line quiz ( Read more... )

..time to play with the "Political Compass".

http://politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=-7.25&soc=-7.54

I keep moving toward the center.

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What Kind of Reader Are You?
Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm

You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane.
Dedicated Reader

Book Snob

Literate Good Citizen

Non-Reader

Fad Reader

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