Between being busy with grad school, becoming a father, and spending a lot of time on Twitter, I didn't have much time to keep this venerable old blog going. To be honest, though, I didn't have much desire to either. I'm sure I'll...
Topics: asides

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Yesterday, Susan Cartier Liebel (of “Build a Solo Practice, LLC”) posted a Taoist parable about the importance of keeping your perspective from getting too narrow. Here it is:There once was a Taoist farmer. One day the Taoist farmer’s only..
Topics: parable, philosophy and religion, Taoism

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Unsurprisingly enough, credit card defaults are on the rise. This industry is marked by less oversight and more shadiness than the mortgage industry, which is saying something. Now American Express is asking for a government handout, since AMEX depends...
Topics: bailout, credit, debt, economics

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Today my son and I participated in the Rust Belt Bloggers' Neighborhood Walk. I pushed him around a section of Squirrel Hill and took pictures at most intersections and few other places.map of routephoto set
Topics: personal

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Over at the New York Times, Sam Tanenhaus has written a helpful analysis of the two major parties’ positions. Here is an excerpt, citing Michael Gerson:“The issues that have provided conservatives with victories in the past — particularly...
Topics: Barack Obama, conservative, Democrat, election, Republican

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