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Archive for October, 2009

All Is Vanity

And so we’ve arrived. What Jonathan Swift wrote as satire in 1729 as A Modest Proposal, and Hollywood presented as science fiction (Soylent Green and The Twilight Zone’s “To Serve Man”) has come to pass. Only instead of ingesting flesh we are putting it on our faces to serve that vile master Vanity. How very [...]

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This morning a friend from my college days wrote to me a quick note via email that said “I just got hustled by my six year old for book money.” And I smiled, because while I’ve yet to meet John’s lovely daughter affectionately known as “Ms. B”, I recognize in his note many of the same qualities I [...]

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