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giving up cars IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.solitary-tree

giving up cars

Erik Kain May 12, 2009
I’ve thought about this sort of community before, but I didn’t know anyone was trying something this...
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two quotes for the afternoon

Erik Kain May 12, 2009
I’d love to be wrong about this. But I’m not. If you want to understand the world,...
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He Doesn’t Look a Thing Like Jesus

Will May 12, 2009
Quoting a cheesy Killers song would seem to be the only appropriate response to Geert Wilders, whose...
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personal computing

Freddie May 12, 2009
It really seems like the rise of the pocket computer is upon us. In many ways, the...
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Question for the Day

Chris Dierkes May 12, 2009
Can someone explain to me why people dress their small children up in animal costumes (not on...
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Master of Divinity

Chris Dierkes May 11, 2009
Yours truly now owns the ludicrous (and actually idolatrous) title of a Master of Divinity.  MDiv. for...
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the campaign finance law we have sucks only a little more than the alternative

Freddie May 11, 2009
John Schwenkler, via Rodney Balko, approves of this video from the Cato Institute. Two separate but important...
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Bike to Work Week

Erik Kain May 11, 2009
Well it’s bike to work week and due to the fact that it is also ridiculously nice...
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Silly Arguments Against Hate Crimes Legislation

Will May 11, 2009
No, we probably shouldn’t be in the business of creating special protections for homeless victims, but this...
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The Amish versus the recession

Will May 11, 2009
A heartbreaking story from Forbes. Here’s the money quote: “Most people say they’re tightening their belts. Well,...
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Hate Crimes and the homeless

Erik Kain May 11, 2009
I’m not sold one way or the other on the hate crime debates.  Sullivan takes issue with...
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File this one under “things I don’t usually admit to”

Will May 11, 2009
John Podhoretz’s Star Trek review is pretty darn good.
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torture and terror

Erik Kain May 11, 2009
“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.”  ~F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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a quote for the morning

Erik Kain May 11, 2009
“Megalomania is a hard drug to kick.”  ~ Josh Marshall, pondering Dick Cheney
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defense spending: still spending

Freddie May 11, 2009
One thing to bear in mind about the free riders on the United States and its defense...
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US Religious Landscape

Chris Dierkes May 10, 2009
ABC News posts this piece introducing the latest Pew Forum Research Survey (the premier forum for this...
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Sunday Poem Series

Freddie May 10, 2009
The Wood Pile by Robert Frost Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day I paused...
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Comedian-in-Chief

Chris Dierkes May 9, 2009
I may not always agree with his politics, but you have to give the guy credit for...
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Holiday in Cambodia

Will May 9, 2009
Well, not quite. But an old friend of mine has an excellent summary of recent developments regarding...
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Joe, the GI

Freddie May 9, 2009
So before Star Trek last night– which is great, by the way– they showed the preview for...
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