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Nobody In Particular: May 2015

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Just Another Random American. Sunday, May 31, 2015. On LinkinIn Pulse this morning, I encountered a column titled " Forget About Humanity. It's a critique of modern society and how we've structured it. The overall tone, as I perceived it, is set by the final sentence of the opening paragraph:. But yes, hurray, by all means, let's all run out and buy another gadget to distract us, from anything actually meaningful or real. Friday, May 29, 2015. Jobs," you still have tens, if not hundreds of thousands of c...

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Nobody In Particular: Counting Eggs

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Just Another Random American. Friday, May 15, 2015. I was reading a critique. Of Marco Rubio's foreign policy positions in The Atlantic. When I came across the following:. But what all these doctrines had in common was that they constituted an effort to define, and answer, the specific challenge of a given time. For Monroe, it was hemispheric independence. For Truman, it was communist expansion. For Carter, it was threats to America’s oil supply. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Return of Fifty.

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Nobody In Particular: But Not TOO Good

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Just Another Random American. Friday, May 8, 2015. But Not TOO Good. I thought that [Janet Yellen] was stating the obvious. I thought we knew for a while that the stock market has been feeding off this low interest rate policy, and that they were excited and rallied on the fact that this was a lukewarm jobs report, which means that [a] rate hike could be pushed out even further I think is evidence that, you know, there's some credibility into what Janet Yellen is saying. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Nobody In Particular: Respect the Establishment

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Just Another Random American. Saturday, May 9, 2015. The right to blaspheme is not a right most of us make much use of these days, and for excellent reason. In modern Western free societies, we take it absolutely for granted that nobody can enforce religious dogma on anybody else. David Frum, " The Right to Blaspheme. On the United States not being Christian enough. But for the most part, there is a certain confidence that the divine can take care of itself, and while they'd prefer that secular law c...

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Nobody In Particular: Beware

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Just Another Random American. Sunday, May 3, 2015. The difference between saying:. A woman who places herself in a situation where she may be vulnerable is unwise. A cartoonist who drawings cartoons depicting (let alone interpretable as disrespectful to) the Prophet Mohammed is unwise. A Black American who is contemptuous or disrespectful to police officers is unwise. A person who leaves the door to their home unlocked when they go out is unwise. Is both simple and complex at the same time. Problems of h...

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Nobody In Particular: February 2015

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Just Another Random American. Saturday, February 28, 2015. Back in November of last year, Texas Senator Ted Cruz tweeted the following:. Net Neutrality" is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government. According to "The Oatmeal" author Matthew Inman, this lead him to assume one of two things:. Thing #1: When you [Senator Cruz] accepted campaign funds from telecom lobbyists last year, they asked that you publicly smear Net Neutrality. After all, without that publi...

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Nobody In Particular: August 2014

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Just Another Random American. Saturday, August 30, 2014. Be Judged Not, Lest Ye Judge. This morning, the theme of my Google Stream seemed to be the judgments of others. People were pushing back against being judged for their associations, sexuality, clothing, activities, et cetera. Sunday, August 24, 2014. Islamophobia. With a side order of irony. Stuck with idiots among their followers will find things harder than they need to be. Saturday, August 23, 2014. A very good point. But, immediately prior ...

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Nobody In Particular: November 2014

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Just Another Random American. Sunday, November 30, 2014. Two roads to the same destination still represent different journeys. Either way, Seth Godin is right. Labels: The Short Form. Matti Friedman “ How the Media Makes the 'Israel Story'. So, tell me, in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which side do you think is which? In the end, as far as I see it, the problem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict isn't that either of side would rather go on fighting this conflict forever. It's that both sides wo...

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Nobody In Particular: January 2015

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Just Another Random American. Saturday, January 31, 2015. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people. Estimating Seasonal Influenza-Associated Deaths in the United States: CDC Study Confirms Variability of Flu. So if we go with that low number, it's likely that this flu season will kill about 3,000 people in the United States. When the big snow...