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Cosmonaut Chutney
06.21.04 | Permalink | 2 CommentsIt’s here! Earlier today the era of civilian space travel finally arrived. Now that we know it can be done without NASA, the costs will start coming down as competing methods vie for customers. Who knows? Maybe I’ll get up there someday myself.
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Tax wealth, not work
06.14.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Tax wealth, not workAs part of his campaign platform, Ralph Nader is proposing we abolish the income tax for incomes below $100K a year. In its place he’d implement a “wealth tax.” This is played up as a bid for conservative voters, and I can see how Steve Forbes might like the idea. But this strikes me as […]
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Nice guy but…
06.11.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Nice guy but…The following exchange was just told to me by an old friend. Susan is a preschool teacher. Child: Susan, why did they kill Jesus? Susan: I don’t understand. He was a nice guy, and he comes by my house sometimes.
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The will to nice
06.10.04 | Permalink | 5 CommentsNice, as you know, is what little girls are expected to be and what little boys are told to be but not expected to become. But nice is also a luxury of the powers-that-be, who expect gratitude for it from the great herds of humanity, who must always prove their commitment to the will to […]
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Joy and melancholy
06.08.04 | Permalink | Comments Off on Joy and melancholyFrom Raimond Gaita’s A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love and Truth and Justice (150): Optimism and pessimism are, anyhow, relatively trivial dispositions of personality. One can be a pessimist in the sense that one is disposed to take a gloomy view of prospects in most situations, seeing in them more reason to predict ill than […]
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Unitarian Universa-what?
06.07.04 | Permalink | 3 Comments(Read other responses to this month’s Coffee Hour topic.) No doubt you’ve heard the old joke. What do you get when you cross a Jehovah’s Witness with a Unitarian Universalist? Answer: A knock at the door for no reason. It ain’t easy saying what you are when what you are is a Unitarian Univeralist. No […]
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