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Movember
So, I should've written this in the first half of the month. Eh well, other fish to fry.
So, MovemberIn theory I think this is a cute idea. Do something visible as part of a simultaneous fundraising and awareness campaign ( Read more... ) -
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This comes out of a conversation from elsewhere which I dropped because I didn't want to badger anyone. It's still of interest to me, I wrote up the following a few months back (when it was more relevant -- what, I've been busy), and it seems like as good an excuse as any to scrape some of the dust bunnies off this blog ( Read more... ) -
I AM NOT INSANE
I am consistently accused of being unable to recognize similarities between faces. So when I remarked the other day that the promo poster of Johnny Depp as the Creepy Technicolor Mad Hatter looked like it was Elijah Wood, people totally blew it off ( Read more... ) -
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Tax cuts, fiscal stimulus, etc.
The thing people aren't realizing in this debate is that if you think of tax cuts as being good, there's no reason to oppose government spending instead. Because government spending is just like a tax cut -- it's the government giving some money to some people -- except that you have to work for it. Or, I should say, you get to work for it, since ( Read more... ) -
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I'm sure I'm going to be one of, say, half a million whose response to this is "Awww, too bad so sad," but ( Read more... ) -
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I'm as ecstatic as everyone else ( Read more... ) -
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OH! I meant to post this earlier ( Read more... ) -
Huh!
Funny... based on the (very convenient) polling place for my district, the political sign in the window of my apartment may actually be in violation of poll-line canvassing radius laws.
I wonder if the distance is calculated in two dimensions or three? Might actually make the difference in this case...