Monthly Archives: October 2008

A Milestone

October 30, 2008
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This is my 1,000th blog post. Rather than contribute a thoughtful post and ruin the moment, this is what you get. A thousand, really? That’s a lot of blogging over the past few year, but I don’t have any intention of stopping anytime soon. I’ve got 50-odd unfinished drafts, some have languished long enough that I ought to banish them into the ether, others still have potential. And a hundred or so items worth...

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I Can Do Whatever I Want!

October 30, 2008
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Says the police officer who put a Newark CBS affiliate’s company cameraman in a handcuffs and a chokehold (allegedly). The cameraman’s offense? Refusing to put down his camera.

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Socialism: Here, There, Everywhere (Part 2)

October 30, 2008
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Germany is not alone in the rush to embrace socialism. France does too. This should come as no suprise to anyone, from a country with stifling labor legislation, quasi-legal segregation, high unemployment rates (even higher among minorities). As I’ve blogged previously, France’s right to work laws are a joke: With an unemployment rate as high as it is (50% for some demographics), it doesn’t seem that France’s current system has done a very good...

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