December 2010
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Dec 28th
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Christmas Thriller!
Dec 25th
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Dude, You Have No Idea
VY: Sigh, I do miss the Bay Area.
VL [who is from and still lives in the Bay Area]: Dude, you have no idea.
VY: Although I also miss Chicago a lot.
VL: Bay is f******g amazing.
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Why Obama (And this Lame-Duck Congress) Deserves a...
Should it be surprising that in the past couple of weeks since Democrats lost many of the seats on Capitol Hill that legislation on START, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and the 9/11 first-reponsder bill was passed? Many politicos seem to think so, given the Democrats’ midterm “shellacking.” Yet, provided that many of the currently lame-duck Blue Dog Democrats (from...
Dec 24th
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“You have to love something greater than yourself: god, country,...”
Dec 24th
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Dec 21st
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“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while,...”
Dec 21st
Dec 19th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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A Self-Indulgent Abstractionism
Confusion about life is normal. I know it is, because everywhere I go, I hear people complaining and questioning the happenings of their lives; the interactions they have with other people; their relations to some personal, philosophical or spiritual belief, etc. But for the most part, I’ve been fairly decent at staying clear-headed. I recognize my failures and shortcomings—correct them...
Dec 12th
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The End [of 2010]
In many ways, this was the year it was all supposed to change. The changes of the 2000s: from the expansion of American executive powers, post-9/11, to the recession, from immigrant rights to gays’ rights—political and economic change; the rise of net-books, web applications, Google, and “social networking” startups—technological change; the new rise of alternative hip-hop and...
Dec 10th
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Dec 7th