Archive for the ‘American Values’ Category
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Line Cutters
Posted on November 26, 2012
During the American civil war, it became quite fashionable for the very wealthy to pay for the privilege to have somebody else take their place in the actual fighting of...
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Attention Walmart Shoppers
Posted on November 24, 2012
I am thankful that I never, ever have done the early shopping the night of or the morning after Thanksgiving. Black Friday is a black mark on American capitalism in...
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The New Puritanism
Posted on November 13, 2012
Had David Petraeus decided to divorce his wife, he would still be CIA Director, and the FBI would be investigating somebody else’s sex life. If David Petraeus were gay, he...
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The End of Men?
Posted on September 21, 2012
As I was driving back from this gym this morning, I heard a startling factoid on WTOP: Doctors can now help parents select the sex of their babies. If that...
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Airport T-Shirts
Posted on August 26, 2012
On my way to Tampa, I walked in a novelty shop in Reagan Washington Airport (I thought I could buy a magazine there, which I couldn’t), and I noticed a...
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