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Daily Archives: August 22nd, 2010

Same old song

Sunday, August 22, 2010

There’s nothing new under the sun. The year is 1834 A religious structure, erected by a despised religious minority, and built too close to “sacred ground”, is attacked by an angry mob. Full disclosure, the erudite historian (despite his use of the word “anyways”) is my son.

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Time to pull together

Sunday, August 22, 2010

During the primary campaign I was privileged to be a member of a Lamont google group. I don’t tend to join the conversation in these sorts of things, but I read the emails that went back and forth, sometimes at a blistering pace. I can certainly understand that there would be a bit of residual […]

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Curiouser and curiouser

Sunday, August 22, 2010

My first thought upon hearing about the warrant for the arrest (followed hard upon by the dropping of the charges) of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was “CIA”. It took me a long time to come to this sort of reflexive thinking. I remember back in the dim and distant past, the halcyon days of the […]

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