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  • Other People’s Words: Happiness

    June 16th, 2007

    These words are from Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill by Matthieu Ricard and translated by Jesse Browner. I really enjoy this book, and would encourage you to read it. This quote is about the difference between genuine happiness and what we often think of as means of achieving it. Once at […]

  • Review: An Unreasonable Man

    June 15th, 2007

    Before we begin, you should know that I have long harbored some affection for Ralph Nader. In 2004, when I was just starting to get seriously interested in politics, I saw him speak. Nader seemed to me to be the best candidate for President. He cared about and talked about issues that the other two […]

  • The Torturous Minutes

    June 15th, 2007

    The alternate title for this was “Why I Like Being Sleep Deprived.” But I feel that both of these titles require some explanation. The first thing you should know it that I’ve long thought, or perhaps I was told, that when you struggle to fall asleep at night, it’s because you don’t physically need to. […]

  • Fiction: Conversations I Don’t Have with my Dog

    June 14th, 2007

    Lucky (that’s his name) stands there staring at me. “What?” I ask. “I just fed you.” He keeps staring at me. Not blinking (do dogs blink?) not looking away. Again, “What?” Nothing. “You’re thinking about something. Wait, let me guess. You’re wondering about the purpose of existence. Whether there’s a reason we’re here. You’re thinking […]

  • Review: Creature Comforts (US)

    June 14th, 2007

    Though I had not intent to review this TV show, I find it hard not to. But to really explain, I have to explain how I found it. I’d seen the ads and thought it looked cute, if a little boring. So when I found it while flipping channels one day, I paused and watched. […]

  • Retroviews, An Introduction

    June 13th, 2007

    A REtroVIEW (or simply retroview) is an idea I have been kicking around for some time. It is, at the lowest-level, a review of something old. More importantly, it is a review of something old which has long-standing personal importance. That is, it’s a review of a book you always loved, a movie you always […]

  • Non-Review: The Departed

    June 13th, 2007

    We were about to watch The Departed. “This is a great excuse to review something,” I said to myself. And so that’s what I was going to do. But when it was over I said to myself, “What am I supposed to write?” The movie is too recent for it to be socially acceptable to […]

  • Changing the World with Ideas

    June 12th, 2007

    I was raised Catholic. And, for a time, I convinced myself that I was a saint. Not just any saint, I went further than that. I convinced myself that I was the Christian Messiah. I was the second-coming of Christ. To the extent that I understood such things as the immaculate conception and virgin-birth, they […]

  • Misguided Reform: The Problem of the Guest Worker

    June 12th, 2007

    Though I wrote this about a year ago, as a response to the large immigration reform/guest worker program which was then tied to President Bush, I think it relevance is renewed by the new bill and the new push [dead link removed, 12/28/07] to get it passed. Those parts not relevant to the current legislation […]

  • On Graduation

    June 11th, 2007

    One month ago today, I graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder. The ceremony was rather large and anonymous. This was not unexpected: commencement ceremonies are rarely the intimate gatherings that perhaps they should be, especially not at a large state school. Though I could go on, I prefer to discuss the event’s significance. […]

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