January 2010

The broken window.

January 31, 2010

I have to credit a friend from college with pointing this out: Here’s President Obama on the stimulus, from his 2010 State of the Union Address: The plan that has made all of this possible, from the tax cuts to the jobs, is the Recovery Act. That’s right -– the Recovery Act, also known as [...]

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Zero.

January 24, 2010

I returned to my co-ed soccer beer league a few weeks ago. My team, the Stubby Holders, wears pink jerseys that the league gave us last season. Unfortunately, there weren’t enough pink jerseys left over from last season so I don’t have an official jersey. The first week, when the temps were in the low 40s [...]

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This is a job for…

January 17, 2010

This past Monday, I stayed after school for a meeting of the creative writing club I sponsor, except that apparently there was no meeting. One girl showed up. I told her to have a seat and we’d wait, but if no one else showed up in the next half hour, I’d have to take her [...]

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The Tens.

January 10, 2010

A friend of mine, “Ted,” posted the following as his status on Facebook a few days before the New Year: TED: 2010 is NOT the start of the a new decade! Decades run 1-10, centuries 1-100, and millenniums 1-1000. Remember there was no year 0000. Happy New Year to all. We’ll just chalk the semantically [...]

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Resolutions for 2010.

January 4, 2010

Happy New Year, and here’s to the Twenty-Tens! (This reminds me: I have to post a transcript of an argument over whether this year constitutes the start of a new decade.) Time to renew some old resolutions, new some new ones, and old some old ones. Let’s see how my Aught-Nine resolutions went: 1. I [...]

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