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"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and never get wet." - The Phantom Tollbooth
I host the Prop Lit group. Please look there for bookish articles and submit some yourself.
Please do not take this personally, but I tend to refuse Friend requests from people who only submit from a single source -- presumably their own blogs. Branch out! Contribute to the community!
Submitted Comments (84)
New Survey Says Bad Cell Phone Reception Drives Customers Away »
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Landlines are getting very expensive. The monthly charge is creeping up, and with the long distance charges, it's looking more and more like a luxury.
7 months, 3 weeks ago 2 replies View »
15 comments from 5 members total
7 ways chess is beneficial to your mind »
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I love chess, but don't often have anyone to play with. Freecell has some of the qualities of chess. Logical, requiring planning several moves in ...
8 months ago 0 replies View »
15 comments from 10 members total
Report: UPS Announces It Will Stop Advertising On Bill O'Reilly's Fox News Show »
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It's a heartening indication that Fox and O'Reilly are increasingly seen as outside the mainstream.
8 months ago 4 replies View »
124 comments from 32 members total
White House Gets Vegetable Garden: Alice Waters is Happy! »
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http://www.gardenrant.com/my_weblog/2009/03/three-...
Three Smart Things about the White House Vegetable Garden8 months, 1 week ago 0 replies View »
9 comments from 5 members total
Are they married? It depends . . . »
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This is on reason the whole concept of civil marriage will eventually be thrown out.
8 months, 1 week ago 0 replies View »
1 comment from 1 member total
Where Is Our Radical Youth? »
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There IS idealism among the young. I have seen it. Their style is different. Well, for that matter OUR style is different these days too:)
8 months, 3 weeks ago 0 replies View »
3 comments from 3 members total
You're Dead? That Won't Stop the Debt Collector »
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Knowing that heirs are not liable for the debts of the deceased doesn't stop you from being fleeced. We were recently sued by a fleabag ...
8 months, 3 weeks ago 0 replies View »
1 comment from 1 member total
Does Your Kid Really Have A Food Allergy? »
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It seems to me that sometimes being allergic gets the same kind of cachet as 'sensitive' -- which means that the more allergic you are, ...
8 months, 3 weeks ago 0 replies View »
2 comments from 2 members total
Drug War Tragedy in Mexico »
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"The wave of violence in Mexico is not caused by the inherent viciousness of the Mexican underclass or the physiological properties of drugs deemed illicit, ...
8 months, 3 weeks ago 0 replies View »
5 comments from 5 members total
Obama and the System: The Economy and the Big Picture »
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This article is a good progressive critique of Obama's actions so far.
8 months, 3 weeks ago 0 replies View »
15 comments from 12 members total
Kierkegaard for Grownups »
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Though they never met, Dostoevsky and Kirkegaard were onto some of the same ideas. Dostoevsky, in his set piece 'The Grand Inquisitor', part of the ...
9 months ago 1 reply View »
6 comments from 4 members total
Art Tatum Plays Dvorak's Humoresque »
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Art Tatum was an incredible genius.
9 months, 1 week ago 1 reply View »
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The Ugly Truth: America's Economy is Not Coming Back »
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Yes. The 'interesting' period through which we all have the fortune to live is the beginning of unimaginable structural change. If only we had started ...
9 months, 1 week ago 0 replies View »
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A lot in this article unfortunately, rings true. I can only say that it felt a lot like this in the early 70's and we ...
9 months, 1 week ago 1 reply View »
15 comments from 12 members total
A Better Bank Fix: Cut Every Mortgage's Principal »
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Well, I like the idea at first glance, because it give the people who HAVE been keeping current with their mortgages a break too.
9 months, 1 week ago 2 replies View »
6 comments from 6 members total
Obama Misreads His Mandate - Reagan didn't assume his landslide was a license for whatever he wanted. »
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Huh? Bush took dead tie and turned it into a direct mandate from his God.
9 months, 2 weeks ago 2 replies View »
197 comments from 44 members total
