May 2012
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April 2012
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Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. This should be...
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March 2012
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Birchbox Man: The Man Who Broke Atlantic City:... →
birchboxman:
Photo: theatlantic.com
From Mark Bowden’s fascinating The Atlantic piece:
“I was ready to play on,” Johnson said. “And I looked around, and I said, ‘Are you going to do a fill?’ I’ve got every chip in the tray. I think I even had the $100 chips. ‘Are you guys going to do a fill?’…
February 2012
9 posts
Mugabe's going to destroy Zimbabwe...again →
Where the light is
The light is whatever you make it: hope, love, a person, a pet, peace, a dream, your spirituality, or a combination of it all. Just keep that light close to you, and allow it to radiate through you.
Find that light and you will be lit bright. And if you keep a hold of that light, always, it will never grow dull, never wane. The flame will burn on in what you do and in who you are.
Politicalprof: Republicans and "Smaller"... →
politicalprof:
One constantly hears that Republicans are the party of small government while Democrats are the party of big government. And, of course, the person making this claim usually makes it clear that small government is good and big government is bad.
Except, of course, this characterization of the…
Neo-conservative radicalization in America as a...
The following is my response to a comment on a blog about how US has terrorized the world for 200 years and that much of the world’s problems are the fault of the US. They also stated that it was the whole of the US: all of its people were willful participations in its degradation of the world. Obviously I disagreed.
I posit a simple position. I assert that an ideology: neo-conservatism...
Politicalprof: The Son is not the Father →
politicalprof:
Governor George Romney (R-Michigan, father of Mitt) was a passionate advocate for civil rights. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence of this passion came at the Republican National Convention in 1964, which was held, if you can believe it, in San Francisco.
George Romney walked out of the…
