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People act like the national debt is the biggest problem facing the U.S. today, but that’s only true insofar as the national debt impacts our ability to fight global warming.
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I can’t believe that Mitt Romney is going to get over 40% of the vote, much less close to 50%. Aside from the day to day (and sometimes same day) shifts on position, he hardly even appeals to the Republican base. He strikes me as the most pointless presidential candidate I can remember in my lifetime.
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Once again, I have no horse in the MLB postseason. My beloved Red Sox were terrible all year, so they aren’t an option this October. However, since I am a Red Sox fan, I do get the chance to cheer for whoever the Yankees are playing. As it so happens, right now they’re playing against a team that is from what I think is one of the worst cities in America: Detroit. In just about any other situation, I would be cheering against the Tigers. (If they were playing the Phillies in the World Series, I would cheer for Detroit only because Philly fans are the worst in all of sports next to New York fans.) But, as a true Red Sox fan, I’m hoping Verlander and his team give the Yankees a few extra weeks of tee times.
Two more games to go.
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One of the worst arguments I hear against the legalization and/or decriminalization of marijuana (and other drugs) is that drugs and gangs go hand-in-hand, so by making it easier for these criminals to sell their chosen products, we will inadvertently promote them. That’s baloney. And why is that, you may ask? Just look to the 13 year experiment we had.
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This is my 10,000th day of life.
So there’s that.
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Italians make the best food. Period.
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I’ve always said that if I was a collector of something, it would be early to mid-20th century Americana. There’s just something about that general time period I like, for whatever reason. I even enjoy the sort of black and white clips that get parodied nowadays. Maybe it’s because I grew up watching I Love Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, and other classic TV show reruns from the 50’s and 60’s. I’m not really sure what it is, but I do know I enjoyed this Interstate lobbying video quite a bit. It incorporates a big interest of mine (the Interstate) while also reflecting the ideas and style of the middle of the last century:
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There are a few nationally known Republicans I like. Jon Huntsman is one of them.
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About 50 million years ago, the area that is now known as Egypt was covered with an ancient sea. At the bottom of this sea were nummulites, a genus of small seashells made of calcium and carbon. Over millions of years, these creatures would die and stack up on the ocean floor, eventually creating limestone. Fast forward to human civilization and we see this:
This image comes from a limestone quarry near Cairo – the same sort of quarry that the ancient Egyptians used to build the pyramids and other structures of that great civilization. In other words, there is a homogenous mix of fossils that can be found all throughout one of the 7 Great Wonders of the World; the Egyptians owe much of their incredible accomplishments to deposits laid down by dying marine creatures over 50 million years ago.
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It astounds me that anyone takes Pascal’s Wager seriously.
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For the Sake of Science 