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[A] number of central features of Marx's analysis remain valid and relevant. The first, obviously, is the analysis of the irresistible global dynamic of capitalist economic development and its capacity to destroy all that came before it, including even those parts of the heritage of the human past
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Finally got around to creating a new blog a couple of weeks ago. I switched from Movable Type to WordPress for it—WordPress has improved immensely in the two years since I picked Movable Type as my blogging platform. I love Portland. I'm glad I'm here.
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Moving day is tomorrow, so I'm wrapping up the blog today. I'll post one more time, when I have a Portland blog set up. My thanks to everyone who has been reading and commenting to "Walking? In Houston!?"!
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At the West Gray Kroger's this evening, I saw a package in the seafood section that contained "Atlantic Salmon, farmed in Chile".
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Barry Ritholtz writes about the latest smart moves by Apple. I agree with Barry: 2004's Microsoft security meltdown and Apple's recent cool products make the Macintosh a choice worth considering again. I have been using Macs since 1984, and there's nothing about Windows I
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If you have skimmed the news lately, you might get the impression that Delta is cutting its fares. Taken as a whole, perhaps it is. All I can say from personal experience is that the price of a ticket on the one flight I invariably take on Delta—Houston to
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Remember "The Newlywed Game"? The idea of that game show was to have one newlywed answer a series of questions, and then the other newlywed would have to guess how his or her spouse answered each question. I have an idea for a game show that would be
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My friend the Reverend Mark Hasty travelled to Austin from the Midwest three years ago to officiate a wedding. It's a shame he didn't have any Blue Bell ice cream while he was here, because it would have saved him from writing this post. A Lutheran
Food
I strongly recommend the Cuban sandwich at El Rey Taqueria (we went to the one at Main and Congress, but they have other Houston locations). And if you can buy it take-out, and go to a nearby pub to wash it down with a glass of Shiraz, then all the
Sports
As a former resident of Ohio, I can tell you that Cleveland Browns fans deserve their reputation for pitiless fanaticism (however much the continued survival of Art Modell might seem to belie it). But I have to say that, though it looks daft to outsiders, the Browns are doing the
Houston
The University of Houston football team will play in the Hawai'i Bowl on Christmas Day, but few Cougar fans will make the trip. As a result, the UH athletic department (apparently taking an idea from CoogFans) is allowing people to buy tickets to the game for soldiers and