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"Politics, as the most encompassing of our mass institutions, now balances on a knife edge between a past which no longer works and a future of chaos." Quote w/in the story. Just had to grab because the last time I heard the phrase "knife edge" was in LotR. Now THAT was serious end-of-the-world sh!t. 😉 Also, I like the pragmatic evolutionary take, sort of the "in the long run we are all dead" POV. (replace "we are all dead" with "we all evolve.")
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these look pretty tasty. (I've been baking oatmeal-chocolate chip and pinwheel cookies this year.)
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"Some evidence suggests that Christmas itself was merely a reappropriation of the pagan festival of Saturnalia. If that is in fact the case, my godless Christmas is more an insult to ancient Romans than to Christians. Since there aren't too many of them left, I won't let it worry me." The last couple of years, I've taken to telling people that I celebrate Christmas as the Japanese do (or at least as my popular understanding of that), which is to say that it's all about the aesthetics.
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"In an ever-escalating game of chicken between the executive branch and the rest of the world, Vice President Dick Cheney wants you to understand that he has done nothing wrong over the past eight years."