Adam's MindSay Blog http://schencka.mindsay.com Adam - MindSay Blog http://schencka.mindsay.com/fourth_of_july_liberty_and_freedom.mws schencka 2008-07-04T12:07:56-05:00 <![CDATA[Fourth of July: Liberty and Freedom]]> http://schencka.mindsay.com/fourth_of_july_liberty_and_freedom.mws
It's an age-old question: "What is liberty?"

The word means to be "free of men." Who gets to be free of men?

Is it the freedom to oppress others (certainly, a freedom many seek)? Or the...

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Here's one of the few counterarguments against the Obama campaign I give credence to: "I'm not worried about what Obama would do in the White House; I'm worried about what the White House would do to Obama."

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]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/schencka/obama_moving_to_the_right.mws http://schencka.mindsay.com/comment_to_arizona_daily_star.mws schencka 2008-07-01T12:07:12-05:00 <![CDATA[Comment to Arizona Daily Star]]> http://schencka.mindsay.com/comment_to_arizona_daily_star.mws
An article about how same-sex marriage ceremonies are proving to be rather traditional.

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misterskank told me that literary criticism "shows the mind of the author trying to interpret" instead of...

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This is now quite old in political chronology; I remember reading of the article, but now I've finally read it. And I see how it helped...

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]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/schencka/andrew_sullivan_on_obama_december_2007.mws http://schencka.mindsay.com/aphorism.mws schencka 2008-06-28T12:06:17-05:00 <![CDATA[Aphorism]]> http://schencka.mindsay.com/aphorism.mws
The worse one perceives things to have become, the more perverse the pleasures one finds.

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Great news: North Korea puts out a 60-page document saying that they are giving up the nuclear...

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]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/schencka/the_great_fools_of_statecraft.mws http://schencka.mindsay.com/_the_principles_of_scientific_management__by_frederick_winslow_taylor.mws schencka 2008-06-26T11:06:39-05:00 <![CDATA[_The Principles of Scientific Management_ by Frederick Winslow Taylor]]> http://schencka.mindsay.com/_the_principles_of_scientific_management__by_frederick_winslow_taylor.mws
The

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Funny how the distant suburbs seem unappealing with gas prices....

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]]> http://www.mindsay.com/comments/schencka/983 http://schencka.mindsay.com/maureen_dowd_defends_obama.mws schencka 2008-06-26T10:06:12-05:00 <![CDATA[Maureen Dowd Defends Obama]]> http://schencka.mindsay.com/maureen_dowd_defends_obama.mws
Read Obama's book and it's absurd to accuse him of being elitist. He's no "I was born in the ghetto; I'm still here" Tupac Shakur, but like millions of kids in America today, he was raised by a single parent of...

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