Immanentize the Eschaton

The wife invited some friends and their kids over last night for the premiere of American Idol. It seemed to me that way too much was made of the fact that “we have a new judge!” It was too long. And Idol committed the (to me) unpardonable offense: they only showed [...]

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During the late campaign, there was some talk on the conservative blogosphere about the fact that some 40% of the population does not pay federal income tax. Sure, they have tax withheld, but when they file their 1040s, tax credits, etc., reduce their tax liability to zero. (I know this can happen. [...]

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I was searching for conservative organizations in southern Mecklenburg and Union counties, and found a link to CarolinaConservatives.org.
Great! Sound like what I was searching for! Well. if you’ve clicked the above link, you already know that it’s a site for NC Sate Senator Eddie Goodall. Nothing wrong with that; just not what [...]

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I was flipping through the Charlotte Observer today at lunch, and I saw a headline about food labels. Seems that there will be “front-of-package” nutritional information on packaged food, starting this year. I rolled my eyes and went to the important part of the paper.
The headline kept nagging at me, so when I [...]

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I just finished reading Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, a sci-fi novel set in the “Bitchun Society” of the near-ish future, a society that has solved the problems of scarcity and death. Indeed, death seems to be treated like an engineering problem, and the solution is to literally “refresh from [...]

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