Archive for October 21st, 2008

  • 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.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4wQfQtpDAc

  • 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 1688 bound [...]

  • 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 – PennLive.com.