Category: Politics
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Inconvenient things
If Al Gore would decide to run for president again, I think my vote would be decided easily. According to this Times article, he says has no intention to run, despite a group of his former supporters campaigning to bring him out. Gore lost his first campaign for president for lots of reasons (even before…
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Despair is natural, isn’t it?
Some years ago I had a course on the early twentieth century British novel. For the class I was introduced for the first time to Virginia Woolf’s work. We read To the Lighthouse, which I loved so much I began taking her other books out of the library and reading them despite having to go…
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Stupid dies as stupid does
No matter what rights there may be to do something like this, I can’t help but intuitively feel it’s criminal, what the AEI (American Enterprise Institute) has done: offered money to scientists to undermine the U.N.’s assessment that global climate change is in a radical, dangerous state, mostly due to the human activity called industry,…
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Finding myself in Japan
Something that happened while I lived in Japan was the event most people refer to as “finding” yourself. A lot of theories that discuss what the idea or essence of a “self” is exist. Some proclaim the self is something you are born with, that it is an innate part of the human species, which…
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An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton
I wrote this entry at my old blog last weekend, when Hillary Clinton announced she’d be running for the Democratic nomination. Since then, I moved to this new website, but today a comment from my friend Jeff Ford over at the original post has spurred me to repost it here, too, and I think I’ll do as…
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Waiting for the Light
Last night I watched the President’s State of the Union address. It was interesting to see who clapped for various plans the President proposed, and who didn’t. One of the things I find most interesting about political players is the way they talk about their plans for the country. It’s very broad and general, and…