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Shipping ports on northern coasts!

The story of Dick Proenneke Alone in the Wilderness
That's the PBS guy - he was awesome. There's also a character in ill Holm's Eccentric Islands, in the chapter on Mallard Island, who is intrigui ...

Fantasy wish-fulfillment. The religious apocalypse ushers in the the union of the self with God in the Rapture, where the self is remade and its divinity revealed. Secular apocapypsies imagine a simil ...

This is absurd. Las Vegas is not going to turn into Detroit. Detroit has ample water supplies, is surrounded by rich agricultural land, contains many important industrial sites, and is on an important ...

As long as they're going to destroy the currency, might as well help me pay down my debt in the process.

Shocked

This is a great thread, and thanks Ibon for starting it.

1) We do indeed get a little myopic and over the top here. We are trying to think about issues so complex and interconnected that we cannot ...

I'm going to be voting Libertarian this election. Not because I think the LP can or even should win, but because it sends a message that we don't want the Republocrats controlling us anymore.

And ...

It'd be cool to work for Cato

Don't not vote. Then they really do win.

Vote for Ron Paul. He's got absolutely no chance of winning, and and a vote for him is a vote of disgust with the current rack of choices. Further, enough f ...

I've had mixed results with slime tubes. Others can chime in too.

I've found they will hold air. They'll get you home. But they will seep air over time, and you might not realize you have a hole. F ...

Tubes shouldn't burst just sitting there. Also, it's my understanding that there are only a handful of tube factories that all the names buy from, so even though forte isn't campagnolo (and no, I don' ...

My eldest has read some of the Kit books and was really looking forward to the film. They all went to see it without me. Now I want to see it even more.

I'm all for FTB.

Three cheers for sailboats and bikes!

GM should obviously cover occupational-related adverse health effects, but I see no reason that they should continue health insurance for those producing nothing for the company in return.

Except f ...

College is cool. It is true that you get out of it what you put into it. It is also true that a degree doesn't mean squat. What matters is what you can do for someone who is willing to pay you to do i ...