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10 Cities I Wouldn’t Mind Living In

By jelewis8 ⋅ July 25, 2007 ⋅ 3 comments

Okay, Jeremiah. Name the top ten places you could see yourself living in the next ten years. You can’t include Los Angeles, since that is where you currently live. These should be places that appeal to you on an emotional basis, or would have benefits for your career, or would be a comfortable compromise between [...]

Christmas Jade

By jelewis8 ⋅ December 1, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m actually going to decorate for Christmas this year. And by “I’m”, I really mean we, and by “we” I really mean Joe. A couple of strings of white lights from the $.99 store (yes, we really have one, as well as a $.48 store…and a Sheetz), maybe a tiny electric tree that spins on [...]

Bumper Sticker Life

By jelewis8 ⋅ November 2, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

What makes people think they’re being clever and politically savvy if they sport bumper stickers that purport to ask all the relevant questions in single line quips? You would think that people, and I’m not just talking liberals here, but everyone in general who is smart, would see the fallacy of trusting a major portion [...]

End of the Illusion?

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 22, 2005 ⋅ One comment

The Bakery links to BullMooseBlog, which asserts the American Right now apes all that it hates about liberalism–that is, the excessive power-hungry, process-sidestepping use of federal powers to institute a policy of righteousness. BMB says that with Congressional intervention in the Terri Schiavo case and with Bush prepared to wake in the middle of the [...]

Bias For Me and For Thee

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 24, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Noted in today’s link roundup from Greg Piper is an interesting item regarding implicit bias and a revolutionary psychological test that renders the test taker’s deepest, innermost thoughts as indications of their biases toward races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, and a lot of other applicable subjects. I haven’t had the chance to take the online [...]

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