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Apropos of nothing much . . .
_katiekaboom_ posted a succinct and on-target bit on diversity today, prompted by an NPR report. I have to agree with her, that we tend to be a bit too narrow in our definitions ( Read more... ) -
I KNEW IT!
I told you, and I told you repeatedly that he would do it.
The son-of-a-bitch died before he finished Wheel of Time.
Someone let me know when the "piss on his grave" party is. I'll be there with bells on.
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Minneapolis Bridge Collapse - Check-In
I crossed the bridge twice yesterday; once going south at about 1330 CDT and then going back north about 1500, three hours before the collapse. That is a major north-south artery into Minneapolis and re-routing traffic will be a bear ( Read more... ) -
Let Freedom Ring
Last Sunday, one of the older gentlemen in my ward spoke up about what he sees as a threat to our freedom. There is a movement, he thinks, to remove "In God We Trust" from our coinage. I didn't have the heart to tell him that Madalyn Murray O'Hair has been dead for more than ten years. At any rate, it got me thinking. If people who are ( Read more... ) -
Blown Away By The News
In today's RedStarTribune:
A Veterans for Peace float pisses some people off:
Deanna Mickelson, a parade director in Biwabik, said some veterans and mothers who have lost sons in Iraq have told her that they "are just mortified by the float," as well as by some of the signs held by Veterans for Peace members. Among the more offensive signs, she ( Read more... ) -
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A lot of libertarian-leaning folks are looking with favor upon Ron Paul, a former Libertarian Party candidate (1988), who is now seeking the Republican nomination for President. He's getting some media time, which is heartening, due in part to the fact that he's refreshingly straightforward and very quotable. He's also drawing some criticism and ( Read more... ) -
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A recent commenter who felt a little bit under fire has been taking a number of comments from others about her comments on a couple of my recent journal entries. She said:
Please freeze those threads or delete the post, or at the very least, inform your friends that I cannot respond to the now-constant flow of comments in my inbox.Most of you ( Read more... ) -
Some simple ground rules about politics
1) I am a small-l libertarian. I oppose most of the policies of both major parties, and I tend to be personally conservative and politically laissez-faire. I think, in short, that the Republicans are hypocrites and the Democrats are criminals. Or is that the other way around? People who espouse the specific policies of one or the other major ( Read more... ) -
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Stolen From theferrett, who kiped it from icyphoenix
Hillary Clinton is, apparently, asking the Internet to vote to select her next campaign theme song. None of her supporters must have much familiarity with the Net (or its users ( Read more... ) -
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Well, they've found James Kim's body ( Read more... )