Michael Foody

With  Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the supreme court there is going to be a lot of focus on the case of Ricci, et al. v. DeStefano. This is not only because the Ricci case is particularly controversial (even though it is) but because the Ricci case parallels the case against Sotomayor herself. 
The Ricci case in [...]

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The title of this post is really hifalutin, that’s just for fun. OK. Older people are more conservative than younger people. Partially this phenomenon is due to individuals maintaining their outlook overtime as new people are born and the average outlook changes. In this sense people aren’t becoming more conservative so much as the world around them [...]

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Blogs are written in reverse chronological order. This makes sense because the reader typically values currency and is most interested in the newest content. This idiosyncrasy creates a couple problems. Readers are used to texts being written from left to right (which is the easier way to write if you are right handed since [...]

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Nostalgia as far as I can tell doesn’t have an opposite. This is pretty natural because the idea of nostalgia contains a set of ideas with opposites a looking backward and a positive feeling about what you see. So the opposite of could either be a looking backward with a negative feeling or a looking [...]

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I sort of want some people to read this blog eventually. That is my grand ambition and the closest thing that I have approaching a plan for this website. Here are some things about me: I am a comedian, a writer, and a painter. I am fascinated by technology, economics, politics. In addition to this [...]

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