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photo blogging

Here are a couple of pictures taken in Nashville with my Sony DSC-P41 digital camera:     

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The Great Satan Possibility

I was talking to my son, Morgan, this evening, who is a second generation hippie leftist, and he made a salient point. America may not be the great satan, but we have the power to be, if we so choose. … Continue reading

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none dare call it, expanded

I’ve expanded the previous post into a longer essay, which has been featured, with minor editing, on frontpagemag.com. If Abraham Lincoln were president today, there’s a good chance that the doors would be shut at the New York Times and … Continue reading

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none dare call it

If Abraham Lincoln were president today, there’s a good chance that the doors would be shut at the New York Times and CBS, and Michael Moore, Terry McCauliffe, Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean, and even John Kerry would be rotting in … Continue reading

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my brother, Jeff, disagrees

I don’t think IQ is the key, and I agree that certain qualities of character and doggedness and judgment and boldness and also a certain kind of flexibility are probably more important (after a certain minimum of intelligence, of course). … Continue reading

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IQ and the presidency

Much has been made of late of the probablity, which I am willing to accept, that the average IQ of Kerry voters is higher than that of Bush voters. The dumb states went to Bush for the most part, and … Continue reading

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multiple causes of error

In my 35+ years of programming computers of all kinds, using many different computer languages, and developing many different kinds of applications, I have noticed a recurring phenomenon that, I believe, is a universal principle of the human psyche, which … Continue reading

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corruption of our youth

This is very funny: Blue State Blues as Coastal Parents Battle Invasion of Dollywood Values

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more on secular democracy

I can’t stop thinking about the issues raised by the Archbishop of Australia in his article. I have always been of the opinion, that, yes, we do have to put up with having a billion dollar porn industry and an … Continue reading

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secular democracy, Christian democracy, Islamic democracy

Here is a very insightful article by, of all people, the Archbishop of Australia, that cuts through the cartoonish stand-off between the caricatures of hedonistic, valueless, selfish blue-staters and ignorant, slow-witted, fundamentalist red-staters. The Archbishop says that the current concept … Continue reading

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