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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Something I noticed a while ago about the television news - different channels always seem to hit on their big feature stories at the same time. Maybe you'll see ABC's report on the new traffic patterns on Monday, then NBC's on Wednesday, etc. Even the stories that require a lot ...
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Thursday, June 16th, 2005
As I've mentioned before, I don't listen to music when I run. Instead, I listen to audtobooks and DVD commentaries. Lately, I've been listening to Freakonomics, and it's so darn good that I've almost stopped running at times to listen more intently.
Freakonomics is co-written by an economist (Steven D. Levitt) ...
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Friday, April 30th, 2004
So I've just finished Freethinkers, and coincidentally enough this story pops up in one of the blogs I read.... Roy Moore's bid to be reinstated as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court has been rejected.
You may recall ex-Judge Moore from the news last year; he defied a federal court ...
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2004
I'm in the middle (well, actually about a third of the way through) Susan Jacoby's Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism.
Normally, I'm not one for US history, but I tend to enjoy intellectual histories more than other sorts (e.g., military, economic, etc.), so after seeing a review of the ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2003
I did it! I just finished my 52nd book this year - Why We Run, by Bernd Heinrich. I've completed one of my New Year's Resolutions in toto.
And now I want to go out and run, but 1) I'm coughing, 2) I'm feeling generally unwell, and 3) it's ...
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