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Monday, April 28th, 2008
i am housesitting while my friend shaun hikes up the big mountain chirripo. it's an awesome place she designed and has the only bookstore in the vicinity on the first floor. there are blue crabs who slowly inch over to anything that drops into their corner of the yard, before ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
now this makes me proud to be an american. (via catspaw)"I think it will surprise people that their laptops are subject to search without any level of suspicion when they get to a border checkpoint," added Jennifer Chacon, a law professor at the University of California, Davis. "I think it ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
former secretary of the treasury paul o'neill says aloud what we all know is true: the stated US "strong dollar" policy is bullshit.
``When I was Secretary of the Treasury I was not supposed to say anything but `strong dollar, strong dollar,''' O'Neill said today. ``I argued then and would argue ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
i haven't been in the US for three months, and one observation i have is it seems like the number of companies advertising their products in association with some kind of social or environmentally-conscious cause has exploded. mind you, it seemed like it was on the rise before, but my ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
paul kedrosky has an interesting post up comparing a chart of CROX's price, and another chart from google trends showing that the number of searches for the product "crocs" peaked and headed south about 3 or 4 months before the stock began a precipitous decline. i wonder if anyone over ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
i thought i had posted this but i guess not...
according to a nyt article today, philosophy is enjoying a resurgence of popularity on US campuses. i was a philosophy major in school, and i have been saying a lot of the things mentioned in the article in defense of what ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
i am finding it difficult not to get sucked into politics while i am here. two things that i read and saw this morning particularly resonated for me. one was barack obama's explanation of his comments at a fundraiser about the bitterness of voters in places like pennsylvania, the other ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
i rode over to the store earlier in a light rain and returned with four big bags of groceries hanging off the handlebars. i made it back here without bruising any of the fruit, but i forgot coffee filters and something else that i remembered when i walked in the ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
this article is fairly interesting. i *think* i know what it is trying to say, just not sure if i believe that anyone would actually *print* what i think it is saying. i better read it again. here is the lead:
Costa Rica Fears Iran's Interest in Region: ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
the wall street journal has a good blow by blow of a collapse of the US financial system narrowly avoided. it's not likely that this crisis is over yet.
UPDATE: sorry, the WSJ is apparently a walled garden still. that link turned into a preview (i.e. useless to both you and ...
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