Playing at being a pseudostudent
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Merekat (Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 07:02:04 AM EST) (
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It appears to be my natural habitat.
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May you live in interesting times
We are living through momentous times. In the US, $700bn of taxpayer's money has been made available to buy bank assets no-one wants. In the UK, £500bn is being made available to provide short term loans to banks, to guarantee loans between banks, and even to buy into banks. The ideas of Thatcherism and Reaganomics that arose on either side of the Atlantic in the 1980s have reached their inevitable conclusion, with the era of individual greed collapsing into the era of shared debts. The profits were privatised, and the debts are being nationalised.
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Rough Evening Update...
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atreides (Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 02:05:06 AM EST) (
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Talked to JonBoy about what's going on with him and his girlfriend.
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Testosteronni.
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vorheesleatherface (Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 10:30:19 PM EST) (
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harrier than macaroni.
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Random thoughts
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riceowlguy (Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 08:45:38 PM EST) (
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On Houston weather, Joe Torre, Obama, Palin, the bailout and the economy, and other stuff.
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A good email
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ucblockhead (Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 01:31:31 PM EST) (
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Dread turns to joy
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Mission: Destroy All Aliens
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TheophileEscargot (Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 01:15:51 PM EST)
Listening,
Web,
Reading (
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Listening: "Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations".
Bailout. Web.
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$285? Whaddaya mean my Roth IRA is at $285?
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gzt (Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 12:54:54 PM EST)
gzt,
marilynne robinson,
cookies,
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"Man, I just wish I could vote for Bush again." That's what I plan on saying when people ask me what I think about the elections or who I'm voting for. Aside from how it directly touches my industry (health insurance), I try not to comment much on politics in polite conversation.
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Your weekly dose of political venom
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lm (Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 12:10:56 PM EST) (
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This week, I did a bad job at trying to point out
an inconsistency that arises if a Libertarian holds to social contract theory. If my argument fails, I blame the local library consortium which has failed me twice in getting my hands on Nozick's
Anarchy, State and Utopia. The consequence is that I'm kind of shooting in the dark and hoping I'm not taking down a straw man.
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canada
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256 (Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 11:48:24 AM EST) (
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cast my absentee ballot in the canadian federal election today
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