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American Politics / Culture / Transportation

February 13, 2019

Train in Vain(ity)

Somethings were never meant to be.

September 28, 2011

Affirmative Action and Equality, Cont’d

I would be remiss to leave the recent discussions on affirmative action and equality without citing Frederick Douglass’s moral argument against affirmative action made in 1865 to a group of abolitionists: “[I]n regard to...

September 10, 2011

California Governor Jerry Brown vetoes ski helmet mandate, language bill, and higher cell phone fines: “Not every human problem deserves a law”

In the comments to my recent piece on the new babysitter legislation on its way to becoming law in California, co-blogger Tom Van Dyke mentioned that Gov. Jerry Brown “has a righteous spark.” The...

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March 27, 2025

James Joyce's Ulysse

POETS Day! On James Joyce’s Ulysses with a Few Poems Thrown In

October 6, 2023

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InMD in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025That seems... highly unlikely.
LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Treasury Secretary Bessant believes that former federal workers will become the basis of a new class…
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Yea I would say very few movies benefit much from the big screen anymore, not with home set ups bein…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025When we got tickets to A Working Man, the theater was mostly sold out. The only rows that had two se…
InMD in reply to Marchmaine on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025If the critical concern is ability to smoke weed during the film it is now easier than ever to do it…
Marchmaine in reply to Philip H on Group Activity: Manic Monday Market WatchalongTo whom did they sell them?
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KenB in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I think of it more as that the republicans are the “child” party and the democrats are the “adolesce…
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