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They’ll let just about anyone into these things. A few days ago, Bill brought the Midwest Republican Leadership Conference occurring in Indianapolis to the attention of us radical youths. A few of us pile into the car (with the necessary supplies, of course: banners, spray paint, and a respectable-looking suit) and make a b-line to [...]
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Summer Plans
Summer’s started, hasn’t been too bad. The worst thing about summer is that you don’t have as structured of a day, so getting stuff done is on your own shoulders. There’s a stack of books I plan to read for the summer, and two weeks in I’ve made an okay dent in it: one and [...]
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So if you haven’t heard, Cindy Sheehan is coming to Purdue. While I’m exactly not a fan of hers, she represents the strongest voice of the anti-war Left in this country and definitely could charge it up. Anyhow, Purdue being the absolute shithole it is, the College Republicans and Friends are organizing a protest against [...]
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I’ve had a bone to pick with afro-centricity for quite some time now, but last night pushed me over the edge. So the tale goes like this: we’re at Notre Dame for a poetry slam for the regional college union something-or-another. I’m the only person from Purdue there; the other people there are from either [...]
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Culture of Liberalism
Since I don’t think that this piece is going into News and Letters, I’ve opted to publish it here. It’s a little more hostile than I would like it to be, written in my more angsty period of living in Seattle. I was reminded to publish it by my revival in the suspect of the [...]
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Reclaiming Seattle
I may have established my disdain for Seattle’s liberal culture in this journal once upon a time, but, let’s reiterate. The basic jist is that Seattle isn’t a conservative place; in fact, it’s very liberal, with public transportation, recycling, and even a chain of organic grocery stores. But this is either statist liberalism (with the [...]
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