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John Steinbeck Strikes Again: in Short Form

Friday, February 20, 2009

This breaks my heart a little.  And, yes, I know it’s just a story, but…
In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck describes a confrontation between a tenant farmer and a tractor driver who is about to level the farmer’s home because the farmer can’t repay his bank loan. The farmer warns the driver that he […]

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2008 to 2009 Transitional Period

Monday, January 5, 2009

Ok, I’ll keep this short, because I’ve got more necessary things than blog posting to be doing.
Here’s the point: I’ve been getting sloppy.  I was way excited when school started last fall, and still am for that matter, to have moved up to Seattle, to have work to support me, and to be able to […]

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Iraq War Costs

Sunday, October 5, 2008

I’m just futzing around on the internet looking at statistics about the cost of the war, and comparing them to what we could be otherwise spending that same amount of money on. I thought I’d throw up some numbers just for the heck of it.

From the U.S. CBO (Congressional Budget Office), an estimated total for […]

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