Archive | October 1, 2012

Holy Mary, mother of God

There comes a time in everyone’s lives when we find our paths veering in a somewhat confusing direction, but when all we can do is clutch on for dear life and ride with the wind. This is precisely what my first ride on a taxi-moto looked like. I would describe the experience as falling somewhere […]

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Just why do nations fail, anyway?

Way back in 2002, when George W. Bush was trying to muster an international military force to take out the Taliban from Afghanistan—how’d that work out, by the way?—one of the arguments he used was that Afghanistan was a “failed state.” As I recall, he tried to use that argument for Iraq as well, although […]

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The young and the disenfranchised

This election cycle seems to be fraught with the idea of voter fraud. The idea that thousands of unregistered or wrongly registered voters would stuff the ballot box and sway the electoral college away from a “true” winner. To be honest, I have heard only one story of voter fraud in my lifetime, and it […]

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