Extend Your Green Line Up To Six Stops in Six Years
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Local politics of mass transit and urban planning.
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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin and science-fiction writer who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial.
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Local politics of mass transit and urban planning.
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Some inspirational moments notwithstanding, modern American politics is still very much in the "I have to laugh or else I'll cry" mode. Thus: Via Unreasonable Faith and the Pharyngula comments....
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Chlorofluorocarbons recoil in horror, reports Eli Kintisch in ScienceNOW: Barack Obama's transition team has announced the officials who will review personnel and policies at federal agencies for the new Administration, including dozens who will begin visits to examine the work...
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Because there's nothing we love so much as ourselves.
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Mourning becomes the reality-based community.
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Dear friends in Arizona, California and Florida, The good side lost, for now. We'll all hurt for it, because by now, we're all in it together. But if you're willing to brave a Massachusetts winter, we'll have 25 grams of...
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In any case, there are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass. Isaac Asimov (1972) What's that? I can't quite hear you! You're saying. . . that the men we've elected are still politicians? That. . ....
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The temptation as a blogger is to write oneself into the stories one quotes. It's a natural reaction to the circumstances: all I've got to talk about is what other people say, but all I have to sell is myself....
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Another reason to visit the Internet is to find agonies of introspection and crises of the heart which stretch across many years climaxing in a single, eminently quotable paragraph. To wit, consider Jeffrey, whose three-year journey from fundamentalism brought him...
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The Internet is where I go to find people who make me wonder, "How can you do that and not worry you're failing at basic human decency?" Case in point: when skeptical activist Robert Lancaster was unfortunately hospitalized, the registration...
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