July 2010
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June 2010
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Distracted by Star Wars: I lost my job today →
by Christopher Leaptrott (The Most Distant Star)
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I lost my job today.
In some distant part of the galaxy I hear there was a battle. I don’t know where. I don’t know why. I just know that now there is an angry mob of people who have taken the time out of their celebrations to make sure…
Are the Ten Commandments really the basis for our... →
azspot:
So the Ten Commandments are clearly neither the moral nor legal basis of the United States of America. At best, you can say that 2 (rounding up) overlap our laws, but they are a hardly a basis for laws. And they fall far, far short of being a basis of morality. I would think a lot of the things (but not all of them!) in Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount would be in a better position for...
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen,...
– Edward Abbey (via cosmic-dust) (via caitlinplus1)
America today is arguably a far less civilized land, and even more neurotic,...
– James Howard Kunstler (via azspot)