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As the Top of the World Turns: The Good Intentions Paving Company
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As the Top of the World Turns. Ruminations and Rants from Laguna Beach. July 3, 2005. The Good Intentions Paving Company. I watched a bit of "Live 8.". It was clear that at the heart of it was a genuine concern for the poor and the suffering in Africa, even if wrapped in many layers of media hype. Aside from raising funds, though, there was a political message, calling for increased aid and debt forgiveness for African countries, and a lowering of trade barriers. But at the core of the African problem is...
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As the Top of the World Turns: Things Are Changing
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As the Top of the World Turns. Ruminations and Rants from Laguna Beach. November 13, 2009. Seems like the ogress has embraced the one-state solution, albeit without the right of return, and she'd like to finesse letting all the Palestinians on the West Bank vote right away. Would she also let them travel and work throughout the country, on the same roads, dismantle the roadblocks, etc? In any case, Oslo is just about over, and apartheid will not stand. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Look Who's Wield...
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As the Top of the World Turns: Justice Douglas Invents Marital Privacy (What Roe Is All About – Part III)
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As the Top of the World Turns. Ruminations and Rants from Laguna Beach. December 4, 2005. Justice Douglas Invents Marital Privacy (What Roe Is All About – Part III). About with bladder cancer. And the press of work have delayed my pressing on with my discussion of the constitutional law issues surrounding Roe. Recall that in my first post on the subject. In my second post. I went on to discuss “substantive due process,” a doctrine the Court has used to overrule certain state laws as violating...381 US...
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As the Top of the World Turns: A Low, Dishonest Decade
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As the Top of the World Turns. Ruminations and Rants from Laguna Beach. December 30, 2009. A Low, Dishonest Decade. Rod Dreher lists five changes. He thinks significant in the last decade:. The humbling of American power. The humbling of market capitalism. The collapse of American conservatism. The rise of gay marriage. The globe is going to warm, no matter what. I came up with four more:. Let's hope it doesn't end in war, as did the rise of Germany. 4 The decline of fertility. Most marked in Europe ...
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As the Top of the World Turns: Street Games
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As the Top of the World Turns. Ruminations and Rants from Laguna Beach. October 3, 2005. I can't claim to have been a street kid. Protected Jewish nerd is more like it. I got my strength from lugging books on unlikely subjects from the 96th Street Library to 89th- and back. But I did escape to street life every now and then, between doses of Milton and Schopenhauer (well, not really, but close, for a 9-year-old). This is a " Spaldeen. Rougher and maybe more fun were Ringalevio and Johnny on the Pony.
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As the Top of the World Turns: The Biggest Story of Our Time: Breeders, Heretics, Libertines, and Ethnic Cleansers
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As the Top of the World Turns. Ruminations and Rants from Laguna Beach. November 27, 2006. The Biggest Story of Our Time: Breeders, Heretics, Libertines, and Ethnic Cleansers. Mark Steyn the inimitable once again writes. Steyn relates this trend, among other things, to a brief interview in the New York Times, given by the incoming Episcopal Bishopess, Katharine Jefferts Schori. Schori boasts. Of the demograpic decline of her denomination:. The Shakers, who practiced celibacy, and the Skoptsy. Steyn relat...
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As the Top of the World Turns: The Sergeant Nails It: "Amazing Grace" at the Ft. Hood Memorial
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As the Top of the World Turns. Ruminations and Rants from Laguna Beach. November 11, 2009. The Sergeant Nails It: "Amazing Grace" at the Ft. Hood Memorial. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I say I'm a grumpy old man, but I was grumpy before I was old. I hope my grumps have echoes. View my complete profile. The Biggest Story of Our Time: Breeders, Heretics, Libertines, and Ethnic Cleansers. The March of Dimes Effect. Justice Douglas Invents Marital Privacy (What. Is All About - Part III). The Russian W...
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As the Top of the World Turns: C
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As the Top of the World Turns. Ruminations and Rants from Laguna Beach. October 15, 2005. This blog has not followed the '70s feminist slogan, “The personal is the political.”. Guy that I am, I've focused on politics, society, the magnificence of French engineering, and Tuvan throat-singing. Events have led me to make an exception. This is personal. On a monitor nowadays. Dr. Tebbyani said, “There it is! In any case, I was able to see Katharine debut as Brigitta in. The Sound of Music. There was a time, ...
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xoom: from hero to zero
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Best penmanship in the blogosphere. On into the ludic future. On into the ludic future. On into the ludic future. On into the ludic future. On into the ludic future. On into the ludic future. On into the ludic future. On into the ludic future. On into the ludic future. On into the ludic future. Laquo; breakfast in america. Singin' the blues ». August 01, 2007. From hero to zero. The post about Beowulf. And if anyone can be a hero, why have we invested so much meaning in the term? Very few things on this ...
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As the Top of the World Turns: If Your Christmas Gets Too Saccharine, Watch This
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As the Top of the World Turns. Ruminations and Rants from Laguna Beach. December 24, 2009. If Your Christmas Gets Too Saccharine, Watch This. One of the few songs I know about disillusionment (as opposed simply to torch songs). There's no redemption for us without recognizing our fallenness. Fairytale of New York. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I say I'm a grumpy old man, but I was grumpy before I was old. I hope my grumps have echoes. View my complete profile. The March of Dimes Effect. The Gray La...
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