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A Curious Little Blog: March 2013

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A Curious Little Blog. In which I blog about curious things that strike me, in the hope of piquing your curiousity. Also, perhaps, of getting some feedback on things that I can't figure out. Sunday, March 31, 2013. Same-sex marriage and discrimination. One can make this case, but it has two serious problems, one ontological and one practical. Is there a difference between restricting which men and which women may marry each other, and restricting whether men may marry other men? It seems an obvious answe...

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A Curious Little Blog: December 2012

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A Curious Little Blog. In which I blog about curious things that strike me, in the hope of piquing your curiousity. Also, perhaps, of getting some feedback on things that I can't figure out. Sunday, December 16, 2012. French names in American geography. Saturday, December 8, 2012. So the fact that the Republicans lost in 2012 should not be all that surprising. The lengthy stagnation of the economy for the previous four years was bad, but it was gradually getting better; and I argued last year. Edealinfo ...

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A Curious Little Blog: July 2014

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A Curious Little Blog. In which I blog about curious things that strike me, in the hope of piquing your curiousity. Also, perhaps, of getting some feedback on things that I can't figure out. Tuesday, July 29, 2014. I don't like to accuse people of lying, because usually what they have done can be accounted for by mistakes, excessive optimism, and other non-malicious reasons. What Jonathan Gruber has done. Do you see that? Too much of our political conversation is dominated by people who talk as though th...

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A Curious Little Blog: Civility in politics

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A Curious Little Blog. In which I blog about curious things that strike me, in the hope of piquing your curiousity. Also, perhaps, of getting some feedback on things that I can't figure out. Sunday, March 15, 2015. If you follow politics at all, you have probably heard people complain that our political discourse has become dangerously rude and argumentative. Whether this is actually true is open to question; at least members of Congress haven't started beating each other senseless. Perhaps, even if your...

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A Curious Little Blog: April 2013

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A Curious Little Blog. In which I blog about curious things that strike me, in the hope of piquing your curiousity. Also, perhaps, of getting some feedback on things that I can't figure out. Monday, April 22, 2013. I visited Niagara Falls last week with my family. Apparently, not many people travel from Virginia to Niagara Falls, because there isn't anything like an interstate connecting the two. We travelled on seven. Tuesday, April 9, 2013. The Accidental Racist and Southern Pride. No wonder there is a...

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A Curious Little Blog: July 2013

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A Curious Little Blog. In which I blog about curious things that strike me, in the hope of piquing your curiousity. Also, perhaps, of getting some feedback on things that I can't figure out. Sunday, July 28, 2013. The following are links to images to accompany the book Westphalia: The Last Christian Peace. P1: Portrait of Queen Christina. Source of many of the quotations in this book and reigning Swedish monarch at the time of the Peace of Westphalia. Alive and well in the 1640's. And Cyrano de Bergerac.

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A Curious Little Blog: November 2014

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A Curious Little Blog. In which I blog about curious things that strike me, in the hope of piquing your curiousity. Also, perhaps, of getting some feedback on things that I can't figure out. Tuesday, November 18, 2014. Some teams incorporate their letters into a design that becomes a logo:. Several other teams have over-detailed icons, including South Carolina, Kansas, and East Carolina:. The Oregon State and Louisville designs aren't too bad, but the other four are far too complicated for a helmet.

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A Curious Little Blog: March 2015

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A Curious Little Blog. In which I blog about curious things that strike me, in the hope of piquing your curiousity. Also, perhaps, of getting some feedback on things that I can't figure out. Sunday, March 15, 2015. If you follow politics at all, you have probably heard people complain that our political discourse has become dangerously rude and argumentative. Whether this is actually true is open to question; at least members of Congress haven't started beating each other senseless. Perhaps, even if your...

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A Curious Little Blog: October 2012

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A Curious Little Blog. In which I blog about curious things that strike me, in the hope of piquing your curiousity. Also, perhaps, of getting some feedback on things that I can't figure out. Monday, October 29, 2012. David Frum getting real. David Frum has a new editorial up on CNN entitled " Let's get real about abortion. Would you pay her medical expenses? By the very question, Frum exposes his ignrance of the issue. He seems to think that requiring a raped person to carry a baby to term implies a ...

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A Curious Little Blog: May 2014

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A Curious Little Blog. In which I blog about curious things that strike me, in the hope of piquing your curiousity. Also, perhaps, of getting some feedback on things that I can't figure out. Sunday, May 4, 2014. Degrees of being, part 2. Idea is never muddled or heterogeneous. Our understanding may be muddled, but the concept exists cleanly whether we think it purely or not. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm an historian and computer programmer and generally curious person. View my complete profile. Colleg...