Being There

I have always had mixed feelings about watching movies about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. On one hand, it’s an important subject, something that shouldn’t be forgotten. There are so many human stories that cannot be ignored (both examples of human triumph and the depths of human behavior). On the other hand, I usually walk [...]

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In the last two years of high school, I played goalkeeper for my school’s varsity soccer team. So I was intrigued to see an interesting story in the NYT this weekend covering the continuing story of goalkeeper Hope Solo, who is a member of the U.S. National team.
For those unfamiliar with the controversy I’m talking [...]

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When thinking about creating a personal site, I mulled over the different approaches that I’ve been reading about in various other blog posts on the subject of organizing and presenting the social data that we all seem to have scattered around the web these days. Atomic Playboy brought up several different approaches, including Jon Tan’s [...]

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We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
After finally deciding to tackle this blog project in earnest, I spent most of this evening trying to make it look decent and come up with a title that doesn’t suck. I like this one; simple, a [...]

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