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YouTube Republican debate

I just watched some bits of the YouTube Republican debate. Interesting (and frustrating) on so many levels. It’s hard to know what’s actually reflective of America and the culture divide, and what’s CNN playing up the split and catering to a media-influenced caricature of the conservative Republican tradition, but the impression the viewer’s left with [...]

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The obligatory status-of-my-life entry

Meh. Not much has been happening lately. I skipped Latin this morning, which was bad. But I was so sleepy! I still had yet to fully recover from the all-nighter I had pulled the night before, which in the end was pretty pointless, because the paper I wrote on-and-off during that night spent awake didn’t [...]

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’60s lecture gives me my groove back

I think I might be getting my groove back. Politically. Or at least, I’m finding out what I still believe in, and what ideologies I’ll need to alter to suit my own beliefs. Exciting times! Oh, and, uh… I think the gender binary might be weird. Share this entry:

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Dreaming, but not about classmates

I wish I had more classes that dealt directly with politics. It frustrates me, though, because people say obvious things and get rewarded for them, and that makes me angry. Also, people in this class seem very, uh, unformed in their political leanings. Speaking in generalities about Kennedy and Goldwater, deploring the latter but not [...]

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Even though his campaign lost 44 states…

I’ve begun reading Barry Goldwater’s The Conscience of a Conservative, and I have to say: conservatism never seemed so sensible, nor so right. Frankly, I’m scared as to what this means for my political consciousness. Share this entry:

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We’re “too quiet, too online” for our own good

Thomas Friedman had an interesting column in the New York Times on October 10, called “Generation Q”. He provides a pretty good characterization of our generation: I am impressed because they are so much more optimistic and idealistic than they should be. I am baffled because they are so much less radical and politically engaged [...]

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An attempt to compose a meaningful entry

Life is always such a treat. Even when it throws me the busiest, most hectic schedule of my life, it still finds ways to make me smile all day long. Or maybe it’s me that’s finding ways to make life make me smile all day long. Life isn’t capable of finding ways to do things, [...]

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Brief observations of recent days

We have a TV at work mounted on the wall that’s supposed to be kept on CNN or something equivalent. But one of my coworkers, Henok, always puts it on the History Channel, or the Discovery Channel, or TBS. On Friday, he was on the phone and had the Discovery Channel on. Now, it’s Shark [...]

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One last entry for the night, followed by bed

My left hand has been having some problems lately. My pinky finger has been going totally numb, randomly, and I can’t figure out what causes it. Sometimes my ring finger goes numb along with it. I woke up the other night after falling asleep in my clothes on top of the bed, and tried to [...]

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Pre-Wesleyan survey recovered from depths of backup disc

Funny, what’s changed and what hasn’t. Wes has made me into such a different person. Or, maybe Wes just allowed me to grow into someone I was already becoming. Or maybe Wesleyan had no effect, and such changes were coincidental. Or maybe I should stop thinking about causation and consider the results instead. Or, perhaps [...]

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