The Interfaith Youth Core continues to do good work. I’ve posted at the Bridge-Builders NING site to this effect: http://bridge-builders.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2315767:BlogPost:3621
Archive for October, 2008
Quarter of a Tenth of a Millennium
October 12th, 2008
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So 25 years ago at 8:42 AM, just like it is now, I entered this world. Don’t remember much about it, to tell the truth. I think I’m having a lot more fun now than I was back then. Of course, in 1983 I didn’t even know what “crushing student loan debt” might be. But [...]
Kleen Kanteen Adventure
October 11th, 2008
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UPDATE: After posting this, I followed through to Kleen Kanteen’s website and actually looked around. Apparently they sell an insulated sleeve (with a handle) for $12. Even though I paid $14 for the bottle itself, I might be inclined to get this thing if it’ll keep me from boiling my hand off. As I mentioned [...]
Our Young Republic
October 11th, 2008
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In class this morning, I peered over at the computer screen of one of my adjacent colleagues. He was surfing a website called SAVEUR, and was looking at a recipe for rib-eye steaks with chimichurri sauce. The steaks, not so much, but I was surprised that the site wasn’t familiar to me, given my Foodie [...]
The Law in One’s Own Hands
October 10th, 2008
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UPDATE: I really should have titled this one “To Protect and Serve” or something like that. There are so many clever titles out there! Literally. News today out of Chicago. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced that his office will, for the foreseeable future, ignore eviction notices. Dart and his deputies have been knocking on [...]
How bad? Pretty bad…
October 9th, 2008
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So the DJIA fell approximately 45,000 points this morning, the S&P lost 322% of its volume, and the TED spread just hopped up about 800 basis points. What does this mean to the uninitiated in global economics? LOTS. I reiterate: Things are bad. Let’s hope a bit that they don’t get as bad as they [...]
Nous, Naan, Nights
October 5th, 2008
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gliding past the bakery where, pan-adventurous, we’d take sugared bites of Francophone treasures after late nights sleeping soundly
Broken Phone
October 4th, 2008
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Once again my Chocolate Phone has let me down. I was receiving a text message yesterday as I left the office and the thing froze up. I de-batteried it, then turned it back on, only to be greeted with a white screen and an occasionally flashing VERIZON sign. Uh oh. The next half hour is [...]
Money
October 4th, 2008
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I’m not so sure that I’m so sure what’s actually going to happen with this whole “worldwide financial crisis” business. Just a while ago, we were talking about $200/barrel oil. Now commodities are slipping, credit is unavailable, our banks are being consumed by either the government or each other, and the average consumer, anywhere, is [...]
