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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
A brief snippet from the European Youth for Action Web site. The bolding and italicizing is mine:
"In the West, the understanding of basic living standards is changeable, depending on lifestyle; a busy job, social life, travel etc. It is also a symptom of the boredom and laziness brought on by ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Coming this weekend, The Things You Carry 2.0, a look at the possible future of the blog you know and might vaguely remember.
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
I couldn't find a public domain picture of the place, so here's a link to the Old Town School of Folk Music.
It's a wonderful, community-based school and social center and I'm going there tonight.
I'm not going there because it's a wonderful 501(c)3 non-profit educational program with long-standing ties to the ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Every so often, I'll come up with a great joke but have no place to put it. Now, with lame self-indulgence, I can include my most recent example.
Past examples:
-- Making a movie about a team of semi-driving bounty hunters who, in 1997, have 24 hours to get to Florida and capture ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
A lot of times, people ask me, "Paul, how can I not buy stuff?"
Well, here's how.
(By the way, I know the video is extending into the right-side blogroll and stuff. I know how to fix it, too. I chose to sacrifice my weird little blog description for higher video quality. ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
(Public domain image. Source: Imageafter.com)
OK, so I'm just putting it out there - when I was a kid, I thought everyone on the entire planet was poor except for in the US and western Europe.
Seriously, I thought the world was a bunch of tempest-tossed, starving refugees, some British guys and ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
The Things You Carry goes audio, debuting what will hopefully be the first of many audio interviews.
You have been warned.
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
For today and only today, no links, no breaking news, no RSS feeds or online blogosphere community building.
Just a thought by ecologist Paul Shepard, as quoted in Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring."
"Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Welcome to the Paulblog. Granted, it's not called that, but that's a pretty catchy name. I permit you to use it elsewhere.
Anyway, here's the deal: There's a lot of stuff we buy. You know how Christmas just ended? Probably with retailers about $475,000,000,000 richer, if the National Retail Federation is ...
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