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Archives for October 28, 2010

Kyoto Japanese Restaurant: A Pleasant Surprise

If I had to sum up my experience at the Kyoto in seven words, those words would be: “Pleasantly surprised, and I’m going back, soon.” Indeed. An associate recommended that our lunch group gather there for a change from the usual. I’ve not had Japanese before, but I like Thai and Chinese, so how different […]

Too late to read the “The Blueprint” this election cycle?

In May, a friend recommended I read “How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care).” I hadn’t heard about the book before then, but I had been aware of, and somewhat mystified by, how Colorado, neighbor to (politically) blood red Utah, had gone from a solid Republican state to a passable Democratic state […]

Are you tired of getting “robocalls?”

Image by denmar via Flickr I am. There’s a rumor going around that you can get your number off of autodial lists by pressing pound or by pressing a combination of buttons during the call. Here’s this from Lifehacker: The National Do Not Call Registry doesn’t cover political messages, and you’ve probably noticed that lately. One […]

why socialism? why communism?

Whittaker Chambers posits, even argues, that the only two reasons that people, especially intellectuals, turn to communism is to solve either the problem of war and the problem of economic crisis. (Witness p. 191) There are, of course, natural tendencies of each individual that might make them more susceptable to choose communism as a solution, […]