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Entries from January 2008

Positive thinking.

January 30th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been reading Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan lately. It’s good stuff.
Meanwhile, I’ve been thinking about the coming primary election. Yes I live under a rock culturally speaking but I do read the Economist and the LA Times pretty frequently and I regularly interact virtually with people who read news from all sorts of places. [...]

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Tags: culture · politics

The United States government’s valuation of higher education

January 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I was just reading something about the state of the union address last night that quoted the line:
“We have seen how Pell Grants help low-income college students realize their full potential. Together, we’ve expanded the size and reach of these grants. Now let us apply that same spirit to help liberate poor children trapped in [...]

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Tags: education · politics

An eye for an eye, for ratings.

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Last weekend I was feeling kind of crappy and decided I’d curl up on the couch and watch some stupid TV. The problem with this plan, of course, was that we don’t have cable, a tivo, or any of the other technologies that allow some sort of control over the stupidness of the available [...]

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Tags: culture · politics

Stating the obvious

January 13th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m in the process of switching this blog over to a self-hosted word press blog. I might even start writing in it regularly.
So you know, under construction, blah, blah, content coming soon, blah, blah. Etc.

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Tags: general