Pink Taco
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It’s chilly but beautiful here. It’s been snowing in Cincinnati. Despite that, I’m excited to be headed home.
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There I am on the front page and on their “blog”.
I am not blogging for Pontin’s, I have never had contact with Pontin’s, and they have not asked for permission to use Amy Alkon’s copyrighted photo of me on their website.
WTF?
UPDATE November 25: Pontin’s have sneakily made a stealth edit to their site. It’s […]
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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I’m wearing a turtleneck AND a sweater! In Los Angeles! (Still, it’s warmer than Cincinnati would have been…)
I try to be thankful for everything, because even the rough stuff is instructive (try being the operative word). I made a gratitude list for today, but it’s a bit too private to put […]
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Well, I can’t say I’m sorry that these people won’t be spawning. Thanks, guys!
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Alice Bachini-Smith:
The world has changed. You don’t need very much money any more to be rich.
I half-agree with her verdict on outlet malls:
Their target customers seem to be people who don’t understand bargain shopping and just want to buy the stuff they normally buy in the mall, but for less: cheaper stuff without the hunting-work. […]
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COOKIES
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There were warm cookies waiting for me when I arrived, and it’s a good thing, because I needed them!
The TSA and Delta combined was almost too much for me to handle: A 2.5 hour delay (which Delta didn’t call me to tell me about until I was on the way to […]
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Arch-statist Martin Kettle:
You could argue, indeed, that the great lesson of the 20th century - desperately hard learned in less fortunate countries than Britain, but tough to swallow even here - is that the state does not have the answer to human problems in the way that so many hoped so naively for so long.
Johnathan […]
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Friends
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Our dreadfully missed friend, Cathy Seipp, would have celebrated her birthday this past Saturday. Cathy’s daughter, Maia, wrote a poignant poem to mark the occasion.
Sometimes, friends and I will exchange emails - quite out of the blue - about how much we miss Cathy. So many news stories break and I think, […]
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And how it relates to world power:
I think Hessler’s line that the [Chinese] system “didn’t teach people how to drive, it taught you how people drove” could be changed for the education system: “it didn’t teach people how to think for themselves, it taught you how other people have thought.”
The point here is the only […]
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How to determine a country’s worth? Check out what its people are standing in line for. [Insert obvious point about countries which reject free markets forcing their people to queue for bread and milk.]
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Please link generously and give generously to this great cause, especially if you care about privacy and all manner of digital rights. Suw has the background on just what the Open Rights Group has accomplished in such a small amount of time, and how much more there still is to do.
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Jungle Jim’s
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My dad went to school with Jungle Jim! Even more exciting (seriously, I was gasping when my dad told me this on the phone today), Jim Bonaminio was born in the same city we’re from (Lorain, Ohio). This is not so shocking, since it’s not as if Ohio is a state […]
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Schuyler and Rob
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When I met up with Rob and Schuyler in Texas last weekend, he gifted me with a galley copy of his book. I was honored and thrilled, and devoured it in a couple of days. (I also morphed into Bipolar Traveler while I read Schuyler’s Monster, laughing out loud and […]
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Oh man, I can just imagine the reaction that post title caused amongst at least 70 per cent of my readers. Anyway, this is good. As Brian says in linking to it (thanks, Brian), the US Constitution is irrelevant in this argument. Which is why I wish people would stop citing the Second Amendment whenever […]
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