February 2012
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The Least Loved Branch
Our society doesn’t pay enough respect to our judicial system.
Some justices have delighted in their near anonymity. Retired Justice John Paul Stevens cherished one particular encounter, said Richard Davis, a professor of political science at Brigham Young University. One day, Justice Stevens was walking outside the court when tourists stopped him. They wanted to know if he would mind...
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Who would have thought that would happen? →
Ten years ago Portugal decriminalized all drugs. Since then, drug abuse is has dropped by 50%. Instead of locking people up, addicts are able to get the treatment they need. Maybe someday our country will wake up to reality and end the war on drugs.
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January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Staring at a maple leaf
Leaning on the mother tree
I said to myself we all...
– Gavin Degraw, Chariot
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Winter Quarter
I almost for got that yesterday was my enrollment appointment for winter quarter. I think it was supposed to be at noon. I didn’t remember it until during class in afternoon but I promptly forgot about it due to the inthralling discussion of the Japanese economy we were having.
Anyways, I just got around to hitting up myUCSC to get my schedule worked out. So here it is:
ECON 100B ...
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Lecture Hall Poetry
I was in my statistics class this morning and I noticed some verse scrawled in pencil on my little fold out desk. It was quite interesting so I thought I would share it. I cleaned it up a bit since some parts were smudged beyond recognition and added line breaks for effect.
College is only a moment.
It is not an ultimate judgement.
It does not depict the rest of your life.
It is but a...
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Some pundits are still trying to dismiss concerns about rising inequality as...
– Paul Krugman, NY Times 11/4/11
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If your confusion leads to learning and then to knowledge you may be better off...
– The other Anonymous
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October 2011
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How did you get w - 0.25w = 0.75w?
– Blond girl
Veto Veritas
May It be know throughout these great lands that henceforth THE TRUTH IS FORBIDDEN to be spoken.
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Dewey: Do you take credit cards?
Pizza guy: Yeah.
Dewey: Is one enough?
Pizza guy: You better make it two.
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He’s such a dangerous pilot he should have moving TFR around him whenever...
– One of Eric’s comrades
There’s the little boys’ room, the little girls’ room and the...
– David Ciani
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That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a...
– Jorge Luis Borges, Evaristo Carriego (1930) Ch. 2