Month: July 2011

This Heat is Dangerous

My computer tells me that it’s 100 degrees outside and that we will be having a high temperature of 104 degrees today. I don’t remember it ever being 104 degrees before in this part of the country. It has only...

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How do you talk a man off a ledge? A parable

Bear with me for a moment. I want to imagine that you are on the roof of a tall building with a psychotic person threatening to jump off the roof. He’s also holding a device with his thumb on a button linked to a bomb in...

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Keeping Taxes Low For Rich People

The president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, caused some controversy yesterday when he appeared to say that letting the Bush tax cuts expire would not be a violation of a pledge lawmakers took not to raise taxes....

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Tonight in Crazy Town

I’ve been perusing the articles at Daily Kos and Think Progress tonight, and it’s really an all-out assault on the senses. So far, I’ve seen Michele Bachmann call for higher taxes on the poor, the Heritage...

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