Category Archives: Politics

Safety, symbolism, or both?

Donning protective masks the second the American cyclists arrive in China… how symbolically pleasing for someone concerned with China’s rampant human rights abuses. Photo from the New York Times.

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Ledger runs opinion piece, Justin cracks up

The Patriot Ledger ran an opinion piece by a Weymouth reader, Irving Murstein, in today’s issue. After the first few paragraphs, my mouth was wide open in disgust. After a few more paragraphs, I was cracking up.
It’s past time for the president to come on TV in a living room chat about the energy crisis [...]

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John McCain, and other tidbits

I need to wake up in 4.5 hours for work. I’ve been trying to take the T to work, but the garage at Braintree is always full and I have nowhere to park my car, so I just get on the highway and deal with traffic and construction and gas prices and greenhouse gas emissions. [...]

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Senior Class Representative election

Well, I’ve officially thrown my hat into the ring, so to speak.
I am running for Senior Class Representative in the Wesleyan Student Assembly, and voting started about twenty minutes ago, at midnight. I’ve got my slick campaign website finally finished, a Facebook Event started up, and campaign posters on the way. I plan on campaigning [...]

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I knew Cafferty was a good guy!

China’s pissed that CNN’s Jack Cafferty insulted their Communist government! Oh no!
“I don’t know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different,” Cafferty said. “We’re in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They’re holding hundreds of billions of dollars [...]

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A pretty spiffy day, so far

Mm, first day of classes after Spring Break. Woke up at 10 o’clock, showered, headed off to ECON256, and got my paper back: a B+. Not bad, but not what I was looking for. I need all A’s this semester in order to preserve my GPA. Anyway, I stuffed that paper in my bag and [...]

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Oh, you made me laugh!

You are so funny, Gail Collins:
The Texas primary results were much closer. The white male vote, which keeps shifting, was split. I’m beginning to suspect that the white males have realized that they’re either going to be accused of racism or sexism and have therefore made a secret pact to take turns.

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Paper finished… now what to do?

Well, I suppose I could go to sleep for four hours. It’s 5:13, after all.
But it’s pouring rain outside, and there’s a huge squall line of thunderstorms heading right for us: winds in excess of 60 mph are expected within the hour, according to the National Weather Service. Apparently there is a Flood Watch and [...]

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A few things I’m thinking about

From F. A. Hayek’s 1945 article “The Use of Knowledge in Society”:
But those who clamor for “conscious direction”—and who cannot believe that anything which has evolved without design (and even without our understanding it) should solve problems which we should not be able to solve consciously—should remember this: The problem is precisely how to extend [...]

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A day of thoughts, both big and small

It was actually two days of thoughts, big and small, but I really only remember the things that happened today, so I’m going to just blend them all into one. As you may guess, this is going to be one of those rambling stream-of-consciousness entries that jumps from topic to topic as they come to [...]

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