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    Another thing, and maybe I'll write this up at some point, is that I see both the second Bush and…
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    • I'll say that this intervention has thrown me for a loop.  It seemed contrary to the pattern I had hoped…
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    • I agree that there are important cultural differences, but I also think that the Europeans who came to the Americas…
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    • Honestly, I felt Diamond overemphasized the role of technology in the conquest of the Americas.  It allowed quick military victories…
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    • It amazes me that twice, in 2004 and 2010, Republicans had a good round and then they start openly talking…
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    • It amazes me that twice, in 2004 and 2010, Republicans had a good round and then they start openly talking…
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    • He's definitely a prick, though.
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    • We need to keep borrowing, though, if we want to maintain our system as it is.  Not only the maintenance…
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    • I wonder what you mean by it was already collapsed.  In danger of it, I know.  The faction that really…
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    • I feel like the have-mores in this country and their hangers-on can't conceive that events in world history are not…
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    • The author doesn't know s&$t about Gorbachev either.  Russia didn't collapse because of glasnost, it collapsed because of perestroika.  Glasnost…
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    • It's a slippery slope when one advocates for a worsening of conditions so that they may become better in a…
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    • The Europeans caused a lot of damage when they ventured out of their native continent.  But that happens when one…
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    • Lazy sentimentality sucks, indeed.  One of the points I didn't bring up in the piece is that Deloria notes precisely…
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    • but there you go, in the classic democratic fashion, trying to avoid a confrontation. Hey, not OK.  I'm no Democrat.…
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    • Well, if the crazies get their way, will it be you who's on the street?
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    • I fear reports of Gaddafi's demise have been premature. I agree in the sense that Mubarak left relatively quickly and…
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    • Read an interesting bit on Marx and music.  The author doesn't understand Marx's representation of commodity production but it's interesting…
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    • Because in a two-party system one can support a political figure without completely agreeing with her or him.  In any…
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    • My favorite line from The Magnificent Ambersons is this: The magnificence of the Ambersons began in 1873. Their splendor lasted…
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