I have this Al Sweringen (Character form HBO’s Deadwood) quote going through my mind. Let it seep down your throat and warm you, burn a little. AHHHHHH!
“Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fuckin’ beatin’s. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like [...]

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TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 13. The Datsun and the Shoe Tree. Thomas L. Freetrademan.
While I was looking for a quote from ’The World is Flat’ for my previous post, I ran into this bit of satire. When I read it, I giggled. I also felt a little uncomfortable on Mr. Friedman’s behalf. My empathetic gesture for the week…
Here it is:
I was changing planes at the new airport [...]

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This semester, I am giving the 2nd year students a weekly blog assignment. Here is the post on that.  I am not entirely optimistic that this will be successful by any reasonable standard, but who said anything about being reasonable?
I just finished reading “The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman. In it, he extols the [...]

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