order from chaos

Without a State, Who Will Help the Poor?

November 16, 2007
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There are people who wonder, “What will happen to the poor without the Government to support them?” For starters, this guy: The Erie Community Foundation, in Pennsylvania, has received a pledge of $100-million from an anonymous donor. But a more appropriate answer would be: Just about everyone. Drive down Main Street of any suburb during holiday season and watch as drivers roll down their windows at red lights to donate to the Knights of...

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From chaos, order emerges

May 20, 2007
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The annual Hoedown in Detroit brings all the mouth-breathing, buck-toothed confederate flag-waving hillbillies from Oxford and Romeo and god-knows-where-else into the City’s Hart Plaza for a weekend; and as refreshing as it is to see thousands of people milling about the city at night, in the dark (gasp!), these affairs are always clusterfucks of epic proportions. Yet it might not have been all bad were it not for the ordeal that was escaping the...

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