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Archive for March, 2007

While I have probably been to more states and/or countries than most people, I really need to get out more. There’s so much to see, and so little time! Last year I visited Turkey (awesome), Japan (awesome), South Korea (sucked), North Korea (spiffy / technically), and China (awesome). In the US, I went back to […]

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Todays Civics Lesson

I wrote my congressman today.
Dear Congressman Thompson,
The philosopher and poet George Santayana once wrote: “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
I write you today as an amateur historian and former history student at UC Davis to ask you to consider joining your […]

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Up to now (it’s only been a week so that’s not too bad), the title of this blog has been “I need a catchy title,” because, well, I need a catchy title. So, I’ve decided to try out the title “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out” in my head which pays tribute to Richard P. […]

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