Blog Archive

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The Ironies of Blogging

One of the paradoxes I have learned is that the more I surf blogs the less I want to blog myself. There are a couple reasons for this: 1) Surfing blogs takes up time so that when I am done surfing I often feel I don’t have enough time to write something myself. 2) Reading [...]

Madeleine Albright: Secretary of Bland

Perhaps this is my partisianship coming through, but I found this January Magazine interview with Madeleine Albright completly banal and uninteresting. I have always been of the opinion that she was a diplomat that simply rose too far in the ranks. I can’t believe an interview like this will encourage people to buy her book. [...]

Gays and Guns

The Ohio Legislature has likely recessed for the year but not without passing some controversial bills: – The Ohio House of Representatives passed Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) legislation last night on a vote of 69-23. The legislation changes Ohio’s existing marriage statute to add: “A marriage may only be entered into by one man [...]