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A "library grape" is a fictional fruit introduced in Neal Stephenson's latest epic novel Anathem. In essence, the library grape is a pure aggregation of the genetic codes of all naturally-occurring grape species that was perfected over time by the diligent efforts of a sect of cloistered monks.

In some small way, this blog attempts to mimic the library grape by pulling together as many variegated strains of knowledge that your author, in his often-cloistered state, can manage. As a winemaker of sorts, he will try to take into account the nuances of the sun, soil, weather, and wind of our age and restrain himself from being so arrogant as to believe that this blog will be the same two seasons in a row.

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Submitted Comments (48)

What's Really Going On In Afghanistan and Pakistan; The Perspective of a Pakistani Woman Living in Pakistan »

• she is definitely Pakistani and is living in Pakistan. her voice is of course one of many. no one needs to take this as the ...

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• the author is absolutely NOT saying that the war should be brought to Pakistan. she IS saying that more should be done by the US ...

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• heart-wrenching, isn't it?

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Media's Reporting on Obama in China - An Example of Village Group-Think, In Stark Relief »

• yep. propaganda and the institutionalization of the local news mantra of "if it bleeds, it leads".
  
  conflict over substance.
  
  punditry over substance.
  
  

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A Comparative Analysis of the Months that Bush and Obama Spent "Dithering" Over Afghanistan Strategy »

• One just has to love GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's moment of clarity in declaring the whole nontroversey to be a whole bunch of ...

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Are We Doomed? Has Empire Reached Its Inexorable March to Decline? »

• a fair point. i often go back and forth on how i see china dominating in the not so distant future

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Dawn's Story - One *Insured* Woman's Struggle to Make CIGNA Pay the Bills for Her Brain Cancer »

• absolutely. what, is the argument that the Free Market is just that much more efficient at killing people off with the insurance company death panels? ...

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• it really is sad that CIGNA has basically made the calculation that it would be cheaper for them to deny her care until she dies ...

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Conservative Economic Historian Bruce Bartlett On How Supply Side Economics Has Become Pernicious Dogma »

• me too. i like courageous people who aren't afraid to speak their mind

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• apostasy is the greatest crime in their book. heretic!!

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Study: Bush Blocked Attempts to Prevent Mortgage Crisis »

• yikes

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Bleg: Help Us Compile an Obama Pass/Fail Scorecard »

• nice! i like it

  2 months, 2 weeks ago 0 replies View »

• is that part of the argument that all the bad stuff GWB did was because clinton laid it all on his lap?

  2 months, 2 weeks ago 2 replies View »

• because they're politicians and most national politicians are craven opportunistic hacks who seek to preserve the status quo. who do i hate more? john boehner ...

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• amazing how the memories of some conservatives seems to only go back as far as February 2009. there was this whole period of catastrophic incompetence ...

  2 months, 2 weeks ago 4 replies View »

• some of those suggestions are pretty good. unfortunately obama is shackled to a lot of corrupt donation-hungry corporatists in his own party so change is ...

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• happy to hear what you have to say. have any objective criteria to add to the list?

  2 months, 2 weeks ago 7 replies View »

• you're reading way too much into this. Obama has 3 more years left in his term and i'm just trying to put together a good ...

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Rightwing Blogger Speculates that Murdered Census Worker Was a Child Molester »

• quite right

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Florida Group Seeks to Outlaw the Birth Control Pill »

• "God is in... his holy temple..."
  
  It's the creepy dead pastor from Poltergeist II

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GOP Rep: "Our democracy has never been threatened as much as it is today" under Obama »

• the extremists have taken over the asylum.

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• what is that even supposed to mean? if you lose an argument because people, on the merits, decide the other proposition is a better idea ...

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• the paranoid psychosis will always be there, and in a way, the ignorant rubes don't bother me nearly as much as the people in power ...

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• double amen to that

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• FTA: At a town hall meeting this week, “a partisan crowd of over 2,000 people” cheered on Rep. Wally Herger’s (R-CA) fear-mongering about the Obama ...

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Stephen Hawking Not Killed By U.K. Health Care System, Thank You Very Much »

• jeez, that sure was a massive dump of random brain drivel

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• what, the fact that the MSM fact-checks it's articles poorly?

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• i don't understand what you mean. what is the "this" you refer to? the declining amount of fact-checking that goes into MSM articles these days?

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• I wonder that about all the debates we've been having all the time. When I come across them, I am overjoyed to find thinking, HONEST, ...

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Noonan: Health Care Town Hall Riots Are The Fault of the DEMOCRATS »

• downrated for consistently having little interesting to say

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• downrated for copy and paste

  4 months, 1 week ago 2 replies View »

• well, conservative hate started before reagan with at least nixon and his "Southern Strategy" (i.e., stir up the angry white people)

  4 months, 1 week ago 0 replies View »

• ah, and its back to ACORN again. doesn't playing the same records over and over and over and over and over again get old, endoscopy?

  4 months, 1 week ago 3 replies View »

• oh my dear freaking god are you serious? a RACIST comment? you people really have gone around the bend

  4 months, 1 week ago 0 replies View »

• thanks for illustrating my point nicely. "as long as 0bama is president, we will continue to terrorize people with lies and false propaganda". nice

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Library Grape: Turning Women into Enslaved Baby Factories »

• nope, try again

  4 months, 3 weeks ago 2 replies View »

• tell me, langlang, what are all the exceptions you would build in to not allow a father to enslave his girlfriend's womb?

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Rep. Boehner Feels the Heat After Lying About Stimulus Jobs »

• do you seriously believe the stimulus will create zero jobs? /facepalm

  5 months, 1 week ago 7 replies View »

• have you ever heard of The Google? there's lots of factual information on there. I know it's not spoon-fed to you by Fixed News and ...

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• there's a whole group of propellercons who have nothing better to do than troll for views they disagree with to neg

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• so flat-out lying is ok with you?

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• lol! awesome, i'm so stealing that

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• "With Ohio’s unemployment rate the highest it’s been in 25 years, I’m pleased that federal officials stepped in to order Ohio to use all of ...

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• yep: "With Ohio’s unemployment rate the highest it’s been in 25 years, I’m pleased that federal officials stepped in to order Ohio to use all ...

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• too bad boehner admitted his state is getting stimulus jobs a few weeks ago: "With Ohio’s unemployment rate the highest it’s been in 25 years, ...

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• "I only skimmed the facts, too" from your comments above, that seemed evident

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• it happens to be 100% factually accurate. just ask one side of boehner, who admitted that jobs were indeed created when speaking to constituents. do ...

  5 months, 1 week ago 4 replies View »

• so true

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• hyperbole is a far cry from claiming that up is down

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