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In the Philosophical Review a couple months back, Craig Duncan has an article call The Persecutor's Wager that will soon be required reading for acceptence into Al Qaeda ( Read more... ) -
Spring
This afternoon Northshore Mass. is sunny and in the low 50s. Tonight, it's supposed to snow half a foot. Nonetheless, it's April 10th already. Shocking, isn't it ( Read more... ) -
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“First we were afraid of the wolf, then we wanted to dance with the wolf, and now we want to be the wolf.” --Chinese central bank official on Chinese/American relations
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An entry for T3 or anyone else that hasn't read this is Soc.
"The quintessential French love letter to the US is Jean Baudrillard's 1986 book, America. It is of course a brilliant book. That is to say, the subject of the book is Baudrillard's brilliance. There are scenes of Baudrillard being brilliant in Utah, being brilliant in Los Angeles, being brilliant in New York. America has only a minor supporting ( Read more... ) -
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"We are all beggars."--Luther's last words -
church calendar
Some of you will probably be amused by a particular graphic on my church calendar this month. On Saturday the 24th the monthly men's breakfast is scheduled at 9am ( Read more... ) -
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As I told Gin earlier today, it would be much easier to hate Ohio State. After you examine everything else that happened, you realize that, if you give any division one team a half field on every offensive possession, you're probably going to loose. As Tressel intimated, Florida deserved it. And by implication, OSU deserved what they got too ( Read more... ) -
...and the morning dove gets caught in the telephone wires
Two things. First, though I know no one else uses livejournal as a form for complaint about their lives, I hope you'll forgive me (I don't mind listening to your complains, I just feel weird about it myself ( Read more... ) -
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I think Donald Miller would like this poem ( Read more... )