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Florida democracy thwarted again
Once again, Florida voters are being denied a voice, and this time it's the fault of the Democratic Party. We will be holding our presidential primaries on January 29th. The Democratic National Committee has vowed not… -
Melkam Mesqel
Happy Mesqel, y'all. -
Chuseok
Happy Chuseok, y'all -
call a spade a spade
I can't believe that Andrew Meyer has made the very top of Google News. There's even an article in the friggin New York Times. If you don't know who he is-- good!-- he's a UF student who made an ass of himself at John… -
Can you pay your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strangs?
Hank Williams would've been eighty-four years old today. Happy birthday, old man. You ain't forgot yet, and you ain't gonna be either. -
self-abuse
Why do I habitually wait until close to midnight to start on these things? It's a long night ahead of me. Ugh. -
Happy New Millenium!
The coverage on the Ethiopian New Year (& new millenium) is uniformly terrible, so I won't link to any of it. It's full of mistakes and exotifications. Even NPR was appalling. Ethiopia counts its months according… -
Should Americans accommodate people who don't speak English?
Introduction: 1. US speech communities. - 82% of Americans speak English as L1 - 176 indigenous languages (Navajo, Samoan, Eskimo) - total 337 languages (ex. 1 mi… -
Tesseract
Madeleine L'Engle has wrinkled out of here. I don't know what to say. -
Our country is not being destroyed by bad politics...
... it is being destroyed by a bad way of life. -- Wendell Berry -
"There is a movement to annihilate Iraq’s Christians"
As Iraq implodes, Christendom is witnessing the demise of one of its oldest churches. Not since the World War I era — the last major Western incursion into the Middle East before the present — has a Middle Eastern C…
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