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“MTA spares my favorite mexican restaurant. ”

“Geriatric superheros. Yes. ”

“The process rules behind the modern filibuster are insane. ”

“People who like funny videos should like transaction taxes. ”

“Mark Dery in Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century: The rhetoric of escape ...”

“When Marky Mark stops being polite,and gets real. ”

“Not passing GW legislation is the better planetary outcome. ”

“I want some for LA. ”

“Christmas present from the House. ”

“Garbage City - disturbing and admirable? ”

“Compromise: hipsters agree to where cheesewheel helmets. ”

“Yeah, well we all wish we were only criticized for things we actually did. ”

“I will save you with techniques! ”

“Ah, the psuedoscience! It Burns! ”

“We're a really fucking evil species sometimes. ”

“I disagree with the necessity of non-violent social change, but Hilzoy makes a very strong ...”

“Apparently, only 8.3% of Democratic Senators are punks. ”

“For all my catholics out there. ”

“It's hard to describe how awesome it is to see that my former high school ...”
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“My goal is to design buildings that can be this compelling when they become rubble. ”

“Central California: don't stop being so awesome. ”

“Strcutural Engineering For The People! ”

“Photographic proof that we have a Nerd-In-Chief. ”

“That bike kicked that car's ass. ”

“What if you're just agnostic? Aren't we worse than atheists? ”

“Because of you, when the boss catches us having rubber band fights we can always ...”
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“It's not a real sport unless you can threaten to kill the official. ”

“I will crush any rich nimby's who stop bus-only lanes. ”

“"...say 'Do your homework,' to their kids and 'Reform health-care' to government." ”

“Fucking Hipsters. ”

“Somehow the palette of this dance party is amazing. ”

“The sad reality of space exploration is that it requires looking at rocks. A ...”

“Not that she let's John Edwards completely off the hook, but this passage by Caitlin ...”
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“Re: Baucus's bill, Klein is saner than most. ”

“Your pet rock Ayn would have the best case. ”

“Harold Meyerson needs a hug. American workers need a job.”

“Better than the West Wing's 'Organization of Cartographers for Social Equity'. ”

“Zombie Stalin. Gorbachev Van Damme. Best Music Video Ever.”

“Great achievements in Jewish pugilism.”

“The Senate may be an exclusive, inbred club, but it used to be even more ...”

“This should really be in Kennedy's pantheon of great achievements.”

“California hating began very early.”

“If you are self-employed, and therefore actually visit the website of blogs you read -- ...”
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“I really wished Jeff Frankel blogged more since economists have established an (undeserved) reputation in ...”

“Well Put Clive: The current deduction costs nearly $80 billion a year in forgone federal ...”

“They are just really fucking awesome at reducing moment frame deflection. That is all.”

“This was in 1999 and it was cutting edge to give a presentation with my ...”
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“Environmentally speaking, Trains > Cars > Planes.”

“I think it's more evidence for Cheap Talk's application of the binding constraint to the ...”

“Superhero webmaster Ethical Werewolf releases Captain Ineffective poking fun at the health care process generally ...”

“"...the execs are aboard a pair of helicopters racing vertiginously 150 feet over collapsed buildings, ...”

“I started reading this book on cooperative stores called "Cooperative Store" because some friends were ...”

“Site's going to be offline for a bit while I convert it to the new ...”

“So basically Obama decided to nationalize an up and coming Creationist theme park company just ...”

“I'm a little frustrated, because supporters of stock or currency transaction taxes - actual card-carrying ...”
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“This is the first of what I am sure will be many bad psuedo-puns, as ...”
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“No joke: this is Joe living my life. (h/t: Lewism)”
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“So I'm still not really blogging, but I got directed to check out this website ...”

“Sadly, today my hopes that public transit would be a panacea for anti-social behavior were, ...”
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“Do you think if I named my charter school this, there's enough diehard Simpsons fans ...”
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“See Ezra try to take food out of my (hypothetical) child's mouth by downplaying the ...”
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“I should never have poked fun at the new Thom Mayne building and the poor ...”
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“When he runs through the numbers and facts, rather than make proclamations based on his ...”

“Apparently all the cool kids are running for President (Despite being an academic, nonhuman, and ...”

“So this is disappointing, but I have no doubt Lessig will resurface doing exciting things ...”

“Seth at Posting and Toasting: ...if both sides got Thunder Stix, we bitter Knick fans would ...”

“Two firetrucks just roared down my street (Why?  Well, where there's trucks, there's fire, as ...”

“I mistakenly stumbled into the bad side of the internet today when I clicked on ...”
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“I've been desperately searching for a contractor blogger who I can vent work-related frustration on ...”
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“In my former life as a high school debater, I once faced a guy who ...”
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“Manufacturing Nostalgia: Maybe Professor Rheingold momentarily forgot that democratizing media inherently diminishes the aura and authority ...”
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“The title is really all I got in response to dude becoming much more popular ...”

“With his lever stuck on full pander, McCain had no choice, when confronted with the ...”

“I know it's fun to laugh at the Japanese, but if there was a candidate ...”

“I find the Stuff White People Like site humorous and...annoying? The site's a little ...”
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“I'm going to punt on the question of whether Cuba's political oppression is outweighed by ...”

“Mike Meginis wrestling with an invisible hand: Most minimum wage employees are absolutely essential to our ...”
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“Chris Bowers presents an inspiring argument for space travel and I wanted to provide my ...”

“From the comments: My parents invented their our industry, a previously non-existant niche in the international ...”

“For McCain's VP:  Cons: JoePa is 147 years old. Pros: He is immortal and cannot be killed ...”

“I'll grant you, REM lover, that caucuses are inaccessible, particularly to traditionally disadvantaged sectors, but ...”
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“Obama's big ideological competitor is...Ron Paul? I wondered where the Baptists for Brownback has gone after ...”

“In fairness to capitalist social patterns (for which I have no love), the ability to ...”
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“Or, stupid choices that serve mostly to distract and divide disempowered people from the true ...”
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“Birthdays = existential angst, and so I spent a not inconsiderable portion of the weekend ...”

“Mike Meginnis: If the rich seriously will abandon our society, this society that has helped them ...”
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“Life w/out Buildings: ...the idea of Nissan building an enormous underground chamber for the explicit purpose ...”

“Hilarious. I meanwhile had a total guys night during the superbowl where: games were played (chess) alcohol was ...”

“The reason the Venice canals have a steep vertical rather than a gradual slope: ducks ...”
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“My wife had a school deadline earlier today and amidst technological malfunctions is trying to ...”

“Arlo Guthrie endorses Ron Paul (aka Mothman) and I'm vaguely disappointed, as I have a ...”

“WTF: What if the White House, the ultimate architectural symbol of political power, were to be ...”
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“This post at n+1 appears to about Le Corbusier and the Fibonacci sequence, so I'm ...”
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“Vani at Shape of Now makes a convincing argument for rehabilitation of existing structures rather ...”
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“Los Angeles gives $5.5 million more to Democrats than Republicans. Way to go Hollywood ...”

“While my brother was being born, my Dad, the doctor, and I were watching the ...”

“I'm a big fan of scalable architecture -- go ahead and throw ladders, spiral stairs, ...”
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“I was sad to see Edwards go since he's been my candidate since the beginning, ...”

“Bush: Heh, how does Iron Man go to the bathroom? With the cast of Superbad.”

“This is painful for a former Nader supporter* to admit, but I grant all Scott's ...”
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“The current primary scheduling practice is aimed at empowering theoretical swing states to ensure a ...”

“While I'm sympathetic to complaints about voter disenfranchisement in Florida, as A) voters didn't choose ...”

“The Onion has apparently seized control of NOW.  Funny that I don't recall similar hyperbole ...”

“I'm constantly impressed with how many debates can be reduced to this fundamental conflict.  Mike ...”

“If strikes are caused by asymmetric information between companies and unions, then the easy solution ...”

“I once had a very long philosophical conversation about this very issue with a homeless ...”

“I found an excerpt from this graphic story (is "comic" an insult?) called 976 sq ...”

“Here's an excerpt from the best spam comment I've received here at After Corbu: Studies have ...”
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“Today's NY Times article on how animated animal blockbusters distort/fabricate animal gender roles is fascinating, ...”

“Not to be confused with Centipetal Forces, the militia units of the the Centipede army. This ...”

“Inexplicably, the electricity is out at my apartment building while the rest of the block ...”
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“Also: Hollywood Forever is, unsurprisingly, a prime grave hunting (not to be confused with grave ...”
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“From the people that brought you the Rodney King Experience....the LAPD Blog!  It combines reporting ...”

“From the Bad Futurist Pantheon: The End of Tall Buildings Not that they don't make a ...”
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“This comes from an anonymously witness too lazy to find a bigger blog: Tom Labonge, my ...”
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“To my liberal friend who won't let the thought experiment of a Ron Paul presidency ...”

“As someone who rocks a beard, and has had bedroom-related insecurities about said beard, April ...”
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“I couldn't get video's to embed properly, so I updated to the new version of ...”

“It just came to my attention that their is an island of plastic twice the ...”

“Salto Mortale with Santa Ana explanations that wax poetic.”

“Spending most of my time around engineers, I forget that certain things aren't common knowledge.  ...”

“I have been to Disneyland three times. First, as a child, an experience I do not ...”
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“The LA tribute at BLDGBLOG doesn't quite hit all the reasons I love the city ...”
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“It's on fire again today, and while I hope everyone got out safely, it seems ...”

“The International Dark-Sky Association (warning: garish site design) defines light pollution as: Any adverse effect of ...”

“All the lights in Los Angeles my neighborhood my apartment have been off for almost ...”

“I'm turning out all my lights for an hour as part of a Lights Out ...”

“I was once told that the English translation of The Second Sex by Simone de ...”

“No, it's not a new catholic rock band. Father Greg Boyle is the founder ...”

“Ezra Klein on Code Pink's protest of a military recruiting station: Code Pink's Medea Benjamin says ...”

“The best sentence ever: The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to ...”

“Wherein I explain why I am loathe to criticize posts or comments at the big ...”

“The abortion-study blowup (with posts by Jill and Mike probably the last gasp), caused me ...”
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“Now that After Corbu is the #74 Architecture Blog on the web, I wanted to ...”

“No, not Mike Meginnis's alternatively acerbic and jocular blog (I recently found my thesaurus), but ...”

“Pax Americana, in defense of deductable charitable donations for the arts: The first is that ...”
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“I went and saw that abortion documentary today. Heavy stuff, and impressive how the ...”

“Lorenloo builds up a solid rant around Gore's award, and while I'm all for that, ...”

“There's an easy solution to the controversy over evangelical churches hosting Halo Nights: Left Behind: Eternal ...”

“So there! I'm glad this blog is around because what Christianity really needs is to ...”
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“Mark Thames: We need leaders who unequivocally accept Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, ...”

“There have been posters for "The Gamekillers" around my neighborhood for a long time (years?), ...”

“Speaking of Chris Burden and meta-art, Spawn of the Surreal has good discussion on the ...”

“There is a subset of contemporary art that is primarily concerned with self-examination and asks ...”
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“So I dropped this blog without even a "So long and thanks for all the ...”

“They have a lot of pieces.  A lot.  And no matter how standardized they look ...”

“Hard to say, but: How Gay is UCLA? - Learn why UCLA was named one of ...”

“Work is enveloping me.  There is no escape.  Posting will decline.  So sad.”
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“From Metroblogging LA,  the directions to the free "Aversion Therapy" 3-wall screening of 300 at ...”

“See what I did there? By putting a question mark at the end of ...”

“I found Corbu's MySpace profile today.”

“is my newest blog find, discovered amidst the mixed bag that is the resistance tag ...”

“An Absolution Revolution tells of Mel Gibson's defeat of the English at the Battle of ...”
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“LA Times does a profile of Freegans living in...New York! Similar to the NY ...”
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“I just can't enough of Pinochet, that lovable clown.  I came across his Killers of ...”

“Pinochet was bad. Really, really bad. To recap: Minimum number of executions: 3,000 Number of ...”

“I looked down at the calendar to check the date and, lo and behold, it's ...”
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“Intelligent piece comparing the Clark '04 and Thompson '08 candidacies by Publius at ObWi. ...”

“Look at how happy Oliver Willis is after his team won.  I'm jealous. Living in LA, ...”
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“So the LAist drives me a bit crazy. It'll have enjoyable articles about LA ...”

“I love football.  I can't stand most football fans.  This shirt reminds me why USC ...”

“The lesson of the testimony of A Conservative Convert to Socialized Medicine seems to be ...”
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“These beliefs are probably why I don't have very many anarchist friends. Collaborating with ...”

“Today, Pax Americana displayed its IGNORANCE of the Imminent Resurrection of the USSR.  Obviously, The ...”
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“Mike Meginnis cracks me up: ...my preference would be the version that doesn’t require murdering the ...”
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“All I ask of a movie is that it have a plot. That's it. ...”

“Acceptable neologism? No? Architectural + Morality has a detailed profile of the architect ...”

“Now that I know about this contest, I'm heavily considering having a kid. And ...”
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“What might as well be the Maryland 4th Incumbent's new slogan, coined by Free State ...”

“I put my cat to sleep yesterday. She was old and had multiple health ...”

“I had missed the New 7 Wonders (via Good) announcement, but now there are "full ...”

“That using cash encourages people to save more than credit cards strikes me as largely ...”

“Echidne has her Coulter, I have my Beverly Crusher. I think I came out ...”

“I enjoyed this history of pre-modern bathing in Europe (via City of Sound), but was ...”

“Reading Klein's and Meginnis's posts on the US & Co. giving away other people's land ...”

“May 1st is the more political event, and it warms my commie heart, but today ...”

“I've been looking through Forbes list of the 100 most powerful women, and was pleased ...”
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“I'm not the biggest Elliott Smith fan, but this is assholic.  All the graffiti artists ...”
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“ In a report titled “Building Towers, Cheating Workers,” published last November, HRW catalogued a host ...”
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“Before this site was founded with the goal of becoming the web's #1 source for ...”

“There's a beautiful one at MIT's Simmons Hall and a gross one at your local ...”

“So here's the most biased description of salting you'll ever see: "Salting" abuse is the ...”
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“I agree with the arguments at Ways to End the World (here and here) that ...”

“So apparently there's a lot of buzz around Female Urinals -- who knew? Even ...”
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“ In light of the recent Pennsylvania boosterism of Tyler Cowen and Pax Americana, I ...”
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“Pax Americana asks: Who can forget Lee Siegel’s “Letter to Jon Stewart”? Me. I somehow completely missed ...”

“I enjoy the sentiment that the perfect American car is one that reinforces the patriarchy.  ...”

“ ...the evidence I've studied and my life experiences all suggest that men and women are ...”

“From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey Through Russian Fantastik Cinema”

“Architecture + Morality has a good post from a bit back titled: The Panopticon of ...”

“Excellent post over at Ally Work about the lack of explicitly white-oriented institution relative to ...”

“My in flight movie this past weekend was Fracture, which sucked.  But I don't want ...”

“So I am home again, and relaunching Radio Corbu. I planned on posting a ...”

“I roll my eyes at skyscrapers, looking down (while looking up) at their ostentatious display.  ...”

“A family member, knowing of my eternal love for all things spacey, showed me this ...”

“Posting from now until Friday the 24th will be irregular, as I'm traveling to see ...”

“Suburban Guerrilla extracts from The Rove Presidency the revealing truth about the lofty concerns of ...”

“Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog, is an excellent source of information on introductory feminist topics ...”

“This post at Pax Americana does a good job explaining why the global warming "moderates" ...”

“ Duke: The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led ...”
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“I realized I neglected to quote Alexander's actual design pattern about building height during Christopher ...”

“I Am Not A Weapon is the new blog founded to "look at gendered issues ...”

“I went hiking today and neglected the internets. Disengaging actually feels pretty good, which ...”
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“The post, "Children and Careers", over at Echidne of the Snakes takes issue with this ...”

“I haven't been paying enough attention to this, but the California budget continues to be ...”

“To continue my skyscraper hating, here's a humorous song quoted in A Pattern Language to ...”
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“Thanks to continued watching of the Sleeping With The Enemy posts at Feministe, I found ...”

“ I make fun of skyscrapers a lot, so I thought I should back up ...”
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“This is a hilarious email forwarded to me by a friend, who received it on ...”

“I'm reading The NAFTA Superhighway article that Yglesias linked to. Having had the pleasure ...”
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“Visiting Jesus Politics (it is Sunday), I ran across a link to The Curse of ...”
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“Today I'm feeling a little guilty* about the fact that I named this blog after ...”
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“I'm watching Sunshine making use of this website (I feel the poor video quality makes ...”

“We all thought he was going to Minnesota...but apparently he had to make a quick ...”
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“I heard about the website My Election Choices over at Ezra Klein's blog. You ...”

“I've been being a voyeur in the comments to the Sleeping with the Enemy posts ...”
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“So I guess this means we won't see a Cox + Combe's Thompson video? An appetizer: Presided ...”

“This being choreographed Thriller-dancing at wedding. Thriller was before my time (child of '84), and I ...”

“Posts like this are how I know that when there's a Democratic president, this indefinate ...”

“So this year's High School Policy Debate topic is: Resolved: The United States federal government should ...”

“What I don't understand about Bush's strategy of indefinate detainment in Guantanamo for political reasons ...”

“Money quote from today's New York Times article about the Minnesota bridge collapse: “Bolts are better,” ...”

“In response to this post at Feministe, Julian Sanchez has an interesting post about the ...”
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“I just found out that I passed the Engineer-in-Training Exam, which was an exhausting 8-hour ...”

“At Kosmograd, there is this post featuring the garages of Murmansk, where one may have ...”

“Fred Phelps is an asshole, and while there is no law against being an asshole, ...”
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“Marry Me has been getting a lot of play in my apartment, so I'm happy ...”
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“I may have been watching too much Weeds, but this billions from marijuana proposal strikes ...”

“I think Greif's paper, discussed in the previous post, inadvertently revealed the big flaw in ...”

“In reading Family Structure, Institution, and Growth(link to pdf) by Avner Greif, I happened upon ...”
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“Apparently, grad school is the place to be these days, as most of my friends ...”

“I've had company the last few days, and what with all the talk of food, ...”

“Ezra Klein: America's political consensus is almost absurdly to the right. But because people still need ...”
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“I'm fairly new to this whole blogging thing, and there's a lot of things I ...”

“I knew something about the LGF blow-up (won't link) over the military & progressives panel ...”

“This post of Ezra Klein's at Tapped, about conflict at a panel on the military ...”

“A couple months ago I sucumbed to prodding and agreed to participate in a communal ...”

“Nice to see this highlight of the Southern California Library, which I've mostly visted during ...”

“Even more ridiculous than the Republicans putting tax cuts over public safety, is that they ...”

“While thinking about band names, I happened upon this directory, which explains the source of ...”
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“So I think I've figured out what the major topic divisions of this site will ...”

“This picture of the roof-beam-column (approximate terms; it's hard to say what is what in ...”

“While we're talking about Minnesota, I wanted to plug a band name that some clever ...”

“7 killed in Minneapolis bridge collapse Some of my structural engineering colleagues are about to lose ...”

“These landscape design are beautiful, mysterious, intriguing...which is to say, perfect. I really want ...”

“This New York Times article about living with Spanish surnames in the oft-xenophobic US was ...”

“I think we're getting close to answering the world's questions about education, the universe, and ...”
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“Unions have been beaten on so much, that, confronted with a field of Democrats that's ...”

“Steve Martin, longtime love of my wife (yes, I'm married, be shocked) got married this ...”

“Mike Meginnis is continuing our back in forth over higher education reform here. I'm ...”

“Who among us has not wondered about the habits and rituals of the rich exclusive? ...”

“I agree with Ezra Klein's commenters that this list of Five Lies My Economist Told ...”

“Think Progress reports that legislation to begin Gonzales impeachment investigations is coming tomorrow.”

“I'm a week late to the party, but was very impressed with this article by ...”

“Since Friday, this darling little site has moved up in the Technorati ratings from 7,918,237 ...”

“To continue today's focus on the Space Hijackers, here's a part of their manifesto that ...”

“Edwards does a really good job telling the story of a man who had to ...”

“Over at Ways to End the World, Mike Meginnis notes ever-escalating college tuition and the ...”
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“I like that term. I might just start referring to myself as a hippie-tect. ...”
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“Apparently politics is calvinball, and Democrats lose no matter what they do. Ignore trivial ...”
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“Apparently, the sastren of neologism are under attack by the evil Wikipedia empire. They ...”

“While tooling around the intertubes, I happened upon this little bit of blog advice from ...”

“Matt Zeitlin makes the case that doctors refusing to give tubal ligations to women under ...”
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“This video at Here in Van Nuys documents the love affair between Reyner Banham and ...”
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“Plus, if rebuilding New Orleans means letting the Corps of Engineers have another go at ...”

“One of the problem with arguments that New Orleans shouldn't be rebuilt (7/20/07 post, no ...”

“These new development plans for Abu Dhabi seem like a case study in bad urban ...”

“Annie Choi's letter "Dear Architects, I am sick of your shit." (via PartIV) is all ...”

“I think Yglesias's "stolen" graph does a lot to show that there are two discrete ...”

“Because they're so silly: Florida's Capitol Complex Barcelona's Agbar Tower ”

“Ok ok. So the drawing below doesn't actually depict my narrative. But there's ...”

“Is that a banana in your skyline...or are you just happ---no, no. It's definatly a ...”

“This Ezra Klein post about how blogs have brought political issues rather than political competition ...”