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The Death of a Blog

As you can see, there have been no posts in three months. I feel a sending off is fitting for this blog: I spent quite a lot of time on things below—life just happened to get in the way sometime in October and I never got back on the blogging horse. I hope to start a lifeblog sometime in the near future as a way of aggregating the various threads of my life. Thanks for reading: it's been fun. Permalink | Leave a comment »

Woefully Few Posts

Readers, As you can see, I haven't posted in quite awhile. I've been extremely busy with a variety of things, and I hope I can get back on the blogging wagon soon, time permitting. Because I much prefer original content to reblogging, posting is quite time-consuming, and I haven't been able to fit it in lately. It's as simple as that. Hope to be back soon. George Permalink | Leave a comment »

Can You Believe This Change?

Newt Gingrich's comments last spring about the 2012 presidential election being the most important since 1860 (when Lincoln was elected) are exaggerated, but there's a grain of truth to the statement: the upcoming election poses tougher questions than recent elections. In broad terms, are we going to have a president proposing aggressive fiscal policy or deep cuts? Are we going to destroy environmental regulation and pray that jobs will be created? How about further watered-down interpretations