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the ignoble vegetarians

2008-06-25T22:56:25Z

What on Earth is wrong with Vegetarians? First and foremost, meat is delicious! Now that that’s out of the way, let’s consider a few other things. In my far too frequent encounters of self-styled herbivores, I’m always met with some kind of d...

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Can the Stimulus Plan fix our economy?

2008-06-13T11:40:32Z

NO! Which is probably why it's not called the Fix the Economy Plan. I’m not sure if something called a Stimulus Plan even aspires to be a “fix” for our economy. I also don’t think economies lend themselves to being fixed (which why every attempt,...

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Requiem for a dream

2008-06-13T10:47:31Z

I hated coming home from college during the breaks. I mean, I'd experienced all of the excitement that the projects had to offer at the time. Maybe seeing what rural Pennsylvania was like sans student body wasn't such a bad idea and there wasn...

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Why hip-hop isn't art

2008-06-13T09:14:16Z

Defining hip-hop as a form of art, apart from music Defining art: Isn't hip-hop just a genre of music? The difficulty in defining any form of art is perhaps a function of the problem intrinsic to defining art itself. Regardless of how much we u...

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