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Archive for August 2008

From Walden:

Posted by: raycraft on: Sunday, August 31, 2008

“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.” – Thoreau

Fear will keep the other systems in line

Posted by: prometheusunchained on: Monday, August 25, 2008

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So at the end of the Olympic closing ceremony the handover to London was made. Now, generally speaking I care very little about sports, but what was really interesting was that their little girl-representative of choice was some brown kid. It’s [...]

7 billion nations of one

Posted by: prometheusunchained on: Monday, August 11, 2008

So I have lots of things to say about being in old country, but what I feel like mentioning briefly right now is the matrimonials section of one of the large papers here.
Yes, yes, it’s a meatmarket, and totally plays to the stereotype. It’s pretty ridiculous. Kind of comical. What is deeply, deeply, interesting however, [...]

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Into the land of my dreams.

Posted by: raycraft on: Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Coming back from where a sloppy and ill-composed picture taken any random place while bouncing around on horseback comes out like this, it’s hard to figure out whether I’m dreaming that I’m back in civilization, or whether the dream was the jungle foray.
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