Archive for October 21st, 2008
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I miss NYC.
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All too familiar.
I know dozens of people out here who would find this attitude — seamlessly smug, self-righteous bigotry — entirely reasonable. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4wQfQtpDAc[/youtube]
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Que sera sera?
George Monbiot looks ahead: Politics is the art of shifting trouble from the living to the unborn. … In 1791 Thomas Paine complained that “the vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies”. He was answering Edmund Burke’s contention that a declaration made by parliament in [...]
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Paragraph of the day.
Some reporters have all the fun: “My wife’s not a lawn mower, and I didn’t put up an illegal shed just to mess with the township,” said Craig Bowes, 52, who owns a company that cleans supermarket floors. Allentown area woman ordered out of ‘bubble’ – Midstate PA Local News, Weather, Sports & Entertainment – [...]