April 2013
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“This defeat is only the latest chapter of what I’ve always known would be a...”
– Gabrielle Giffords, “A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Hand.”
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March 2013
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January 2013
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“It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our...”
– Barack Obama. Inaugural Address. January 21, 2013.
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Back in November I lost a bet to my roommate. We’re both political junkies but I’ll be the first to admit that politics consumed my life last year. I was obsessed with the election and checked Nate Silver’s blog at least five million times a day.
The bet: Felipe wagered that Barack Obama would once again win Colorado while I believed that the state would turn red. Whoever...
December 2012
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This is Luna.
Someone abandoned her in a dumpster when she was only a few days old. Luckily, someone else found her and rushed her to the local animal shelter. She was so small that they weren’t sure she would survive the night.
Growing up my family always had dogs so cats were foreign creatures with sharp claws and an appeal I didn’t quite understand or appreciate. But that all...
October 2012
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September 2012
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August 2012
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“The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not...”
– Neil Armstrong
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Fear of a Black President →
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Fear of a Black President,” released in the September issue of The Atlantic, should be required reading for anyone interested in race and politics. I would post this article in its entirely because it’s that good, but I know that most of us have short attention spans and a tendency to avoid longer form journalism. So, here’s a snippet:
In a...
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“The most astounding fact is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on...”
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson, The Most Astounding Fact
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