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I originally created [[Issuepedia]] as a way of dealing with the confusion (shall we say) I and a lot of other people felt after the 2004 presidential election. How could a man be so clearly dishonest and still get elected? Or were ''we'' the ones who were wrong, and he actually wasn't that bad?
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Issuepedia's first project, then, was to collect information relating to [[George W. Bush]], his past performance, his views, the views of [[US Republican Party|his party]], the issues upon which I and my friends are at odds with his party, and so on. If we were right, this would make it clear to his supporters just what he was supporting. If we were wrong, it would become clear as the facts accumulated. This methodology could then be used to help resolve (or at least understand) all kinds of contentious [[:category:issues|issues]].
 
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Issuepedia was at that time (early 2005) living on [http://wiki.sluggysquad.com/ another wiki] (and was named "Encyclopinion", because the wiki's then-sysop didn't like the way "issuepedia" sounded), and unfortunately most of it got wiped out when that wiki's data was [http://wiki.sluggysquad.com/index.php/The_SquadWiki_Deletion_of_2005 accidentally deleted]. I have printouts of a few pages, but haven't had time to reconstruct them on this wiki. In fact, I haven't had much time at all to work on issuepedia, as evidenced by how sparse it is so far. -->
 
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The methodology seems to work quite well; the main problem has been a lack of interest from anyone else. As such, it is still of use to ''me'', as it serves as a filing place for facts and cross-references which I otherwise would be unable to remember, thus making it possible for me to have a reasonable grasp on the issues I've been studying. Hopefully others will soon see the value of it. I have ideas for publicity campaigns ("Issuepedia: no more sound bites"), and will get around to working on that eventually.
 
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[[htwiki:User:Woozle|My central home page]] is on [[htwiki:Main Page|The Hypertwins Wiki]]. Visit early and often. ^_^
 
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==Subpages==
 
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* '''My [[/positions|positions]]''' on a number of issues
 
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* [[/rationalist]]: My name is Woozle. I carry a card.
 
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* [[/opinionated businesses]]: should businesses have opinions on things, and how far can they go with them? (As I was typing this, I kinda lost enthusiasm for the whole thing... don't know why. Note: any discussion of larger business ethics should mention companies like Working Assets which make political positions part of their sales pitch.)
 
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* At its best, religion seems to provide a shield against cynicism. This seems to be the real reason why any intelligent people become religious at all; they care about other people, so they want to be "[[good]]", and in their experience only religion offers any guidance on that topic. This seems worth an essay, or at least some discussion inside an existing essay.
 
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===Essays===
 
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* '''2007-06-03''' [[/Reasons to believe in God|Reasons to believe in God]] (surprise!)
 
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* '''2006-09-30''' [[Head-in-the-sand Liberals]] (my writing is the response to an article by this title)
 
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===Humor===
 
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* [[/neocons and lightbulbs]]
 
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* [[/annoy a liberal]]: answers to a popular conservative bumper-sticker
 
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* [[/Discovery Institute]]: proof they aren't really trying (and I hope this doesn't give them any ideas...)
 
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* '''2007-08-11''' [[/How to Argue with a Liberal|How to Argue with a Liberal]], aka how to write like a neocon
 
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===Ideas===
 
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* '''2007-09-30''' [[/United Members of Civilization]]
 
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===Interactions===
 
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* [[/Conservapedia]]: my interactions with [[Conservapedia]], especially the ones that get reverted
 
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* [[/JLF]]: my interactions with the [[John Locke Foundation]] (mainly on the Right Angles Blog)
 
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===Notes===
 
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* [[/Darwin's Dangerous Idea]]: eventually to be organized into [[Darwin's Dangerous Idea|critique page]]
 
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* [[/2007-07-03 chat]] on the subject of why atheists might avoid trying to de-theize their friends
 
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===Other Dated Writings===
 
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* '''2008-07-16''' [[/2008-07-16 response to Jon Pieret]]
 
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* '''2008-07-13''' [[/2008-07-13 comment on Majikthise]]
 
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* '''2008-05-27''' [[/2008-05-27 response to Paul Dean]]
 
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* '''2008-05-03''' [[/2008-05 ostrich exchange]]
 
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* '''2006-12-20''' [[/2006-12-20 political theorizing|political theorizing]]: why we never seem to learn from history, even though we actually do
 
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* '''2005-09-06''' [[/2005-09-06 Thoughts on the Divide|Thoughts on the Red-Blue Divide]] (need to revise this)
 
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** '''2005-09-09''' [[/2005-09-09 More Thoughts on the Divide|More Thoughts on the Divide]]
 
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===Unfinished===
 
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* '''2007-10-15''' [[/2007-10-15 open letter to GWB]]: never finished. Bah. (I wanted to find more about this "list" so I could be specific.)
 
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* '''2007-05-05''' [[/Morality Without God|Morality Without God]] ''(in progress)'': how it works (would "Godless Morality" be a better title?)
 
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* '''2007-02-13''' [[/interfaith treaty|interfaith treaty]] working notes
 
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==Dialogues==
 
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* [[Issuepedia:Ethics channel/religion]]: key points from a conversation with Vee about the nature of [[God]]
 
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==Petitions and Emails==
 
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(a partial list)
 
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* '''2008-09-21''' [[/2008-09-21 email to David Price]]
 
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* '''2008-08-03''' [[/2008-08-03 petition against Iran blockade]]
 
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* '''2008-07-19''' [http://sendkarlrovetojail.com/?utm_source=rgemail Send Karl Rove to Jail]: "I'm sure they'll find some excuse to ignore us yet again, but I have to keep saying it... the law applies to the sacred Bush Administration too. I don't care what they're threatening to do in retaliation; bring it on. We can't let the historical record show that we just sat down and let them get away with it."
 
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* '''2008-06-26''' [[/2008-06-26 webmail supporting Rove compulsion]] via [[American Freedom Campaign]]
 
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* '''2008-06-25''' The [http://impeachment.kucinich.us/ Kucinich Impeachment Petition]
 
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** added this message: "As Bush's final term draws to a close, it becomes *more* urgent -- not less! -- to establish the wrongness of his acts, and to investigate the details of those acts in order to distinguish between rumor, slander, and truth. I commend Congressman Kucinich for continuing to think clearly in the face of overwhelming propaganda."
 
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* '''2008-06-22''' [[/2008-06-22 webmail to David Price opposing Iran blockade]]
 
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* '''2008-06-11''' [[/2008-06-11 email for impeachment]] via [http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2165/t/1027/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24900 web form] @ the [[American Freedom Campaign]]
 
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* '''2007-10-26''' [[/2007-10-26 webmail in support of HR3835]] -- The [[American Freedom Campaign]]'s [http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2165/t/1027/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=17371 online petition] in support of [[Ron Paul]]'s "[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.03835: American Freedom Agenda Act" (HR 3835)].
 
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* '''2007-10-18''' [[Chris Dodd]]'s [http://www.chrisdodd.com online petition] expressing support for his blockage of a bill giving the telecomm companies immunity against prosecution in connection with Bush's wiretapping: "I applaud your action of blocking the FISA bill with the telecomm amnesty tacked onto it. This may be just one finger in a dyke with a whole lot of holes, but every finger counts; we just have to hang in there until we can get soemone decent in office (assuming Bush doesn't declare martial law and suspend elections, of course). / I hadn't heard your name before in connection with the 2008 elections, but I will definitely be watching you now. ;-)"
 
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* '''2007-10-14''' [http://www.americanfreedomcampaign.org/ American Freedom Pledge]
 
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* '''2007-07-07''' [[/2007-07-07 webmail to congress]]
 
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* '''2007-05-09''' [http://johnedwards.com/r/13182/931367/ post-veto request to stand firm against Bush pressure]: "As your constituent, I'm asking you to stand up to President Bush and not write another blank check for [[endless war]] in Iraq. The president has vetoed funding for the troops, and he's the only one responsible for blocking the resources they need. Please stand firm &ndash; support the troops with a plan to end the war and the funding they need to do it."
 
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==Notes to Myself==
 
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* Interesting Conservapedia user: [[conservapedia:Special:Contributions/Daphnea]]
 
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* Need to write: [[war on the extended family]] -- part of the [[war on the family]], in that tightly constraining the acceptable model for a family weakens the family itself
 
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* [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=War_Powers_Act This] is bound to be related to something.
 
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* Critique [[Homosexual "Marriage" and Civilization]] (again); use [[Honor (by Orson Scott Card)|this]] as a model for format.
 
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* Finish [[User:Woozle/Morality Without God|this]]
 
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* Make [[The Authoritarians Google Group]] page and add these links, possibly condensed if there is overlap:
 
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** [[googlegroups:theauthoritarians/msg/e70cc8b802db505c]]
 
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** [[googlegroups:theauthoritarians/msg/9913acec54b9f80a]]
 
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** [[googlegroups:theauthoritarians/msg/0a35f12139569791]]
 
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** [[googlegroups:theauthoritarians/msg/997b73167d626f5d]]
 
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** [[googlegroups:theauthoritarians/browse_thread/thread/af9e780f6f76389b/707e63f8eea6017d?#707e63f8eea6017d]]
 
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** [[googlegroups:theauthoritarians/msg/d15c461f47059982]]
 
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** [[googlegroups:theauthoritarians/msg/284d2fdbee918e9a]]
 
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* File this somewhere: [http://www.u4prez.com/index.php?do=rate&act=top&gender=8 Run for President of the US]
 
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* Respond to: [http://richarddawkins.net/article,961,4-Sermon-for-Matins-Dawkins-and-The-God-Delusion,Dr-Nicholas-Sagovsky-Westminster-Abbey Sermon for Matins: 'Dawkins and The God Delusion'] by Dr Nicholas Sagovsky, Westminster Abbey
 
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* Need to respond to [http://tom.acrewoods.net/node/378 this]
 
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* For [[transparency]] article: "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis B. Brandeis
 
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* Interesting quote from Jimmy Wales: "...one of the interesting things about Wikipedia is that people assume ... particularly on controversial topics that the big debates within the Wikipedia community would be somehow roughly the party of the left versus the party of the right. It turns out on those types of topics it's actually the party of the thoughtful and reasonable people and the party of the jerks. And those aren't left or right, they can come from all sides." [http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1042]
 
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* Need to write a backgrounder article on how web sites always had the potential to allow cross-referencing of news articles and thus to become more like a library, how news web sites (e.g. CNN, Slashdot) fail to use this potential, and how wiki sites enable it. [http://wagnernet.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Slashdot+Demise article arguing that wiki is superior to the e-forum model]
 
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* Perhaps a page on [[lessons to learn from history]], starting with [http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0403a.asp how Hitler rose to power] in a Democratic country even though his party were very much in the minority
 
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* http://www.davidbrin.com/neocons.html has a number of opinions on other issues regarding which I didn't happen to be working on pages at the time I was reading it, but which should later be mined (yes, I use a lot of Brin quotes and links on this site -- because he's one of the few really rich sources of cogent arguments I've been able to find, on either side of the political spectrum -- though I do plan to pay [http://hatrack.com/ Orson Scott Card] (and [http://ornery.com The Ornery American]) a visit, when time permits.)
 
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* A KDE developer joins the US military: <s>http://funkyshizzle.com/?q=node/114</s> (dead link)
 
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* Notes for eventual essay related to [[affordable housing]] and the [[real estate industry]]:
 
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** The real estate loan industry is basically an arms race &ndash; or a [[wikipedia:The Sneetches and Other Stories|Sneetch]]-race, to be more light-hearted about it.
 
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** The home buyers are the Sneetches, and the bankers are Sylvester McMonkey McBean.
 
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** Everyone wants to buy a better house than they can afford, and Sylvester makes it possible.
 
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** The resulting competition for a scarce resource (housing) drives up the price far past its intrinsic value, and gives developers incentives to buy up more and more undeveloped land... thus driving up value of neighboring land or land in "desirable" areas, thus driving up property taxes for the remaining undeveloped land, thus making it less and less affordable to ''own'' undeveloped land, thus making it easier for the developers to build more and more overpriced housing.
 
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** Sylvester drives away with a load of cash, and homeowners are left in debt for the rest of their natural lives.
 
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==Morality Quiz Notes==
 
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A deadly natural disaster (hurricane, tsunami, whatever) is about to strike. A man goes swimming in the ocean, despite all warnings to leave town and especially to stay away from the water. He is arrested by the police. Is this right, or wrong? (Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110007328)
 
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Same natural disaster. A teenage boy steals a bus, picks up refugees, and drives them to safety. He is arrested. Is this right or wrong? What should the boy have done? What should the police have done?
 
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...I wanted to have a scenario involving missionaries, but I find it difficult to phrase in a neutral-ish way since the concept of missionarying bothers me all by itself.
 
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2007-02-25 update: Although I came up with those questions independently (in 2005 or 06), they are very similar to the questions used in the surveys described in [[The Authoritarians]].
 
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==Links to File==
 
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* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/science/07indu.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&adxnnl=0&adxnnlx=1186596110-aL5vcWXoLFmofTMnMUPdEg In Dusty Archives, a Theory of Affluence]
 
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* [http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9735 Off the Record]: music industry crumbling?
 
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* [http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?cat=31 SciAm blog]: lots of interesting stuff. Add to RSS feeds?
 
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* [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/engelhardt  Why the US Military Loves Ron Paul]
 
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* [http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9774.htm An Inconvenient Patriot]: Sibel Edmonds and others, for [[Corruption in the Bush administration]]
 
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* [http://stopthelie.com/ StopTheLie.com]
 
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTcsCGcwhho&NR=1 Bill Maher On The Ten Commandments]
 
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* [http://atheists-of-utah.org/doku.php?id=links links] from Atheists of Utah
 
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* [http://people.virginia.edu/~jdh6n/ Jon Haidt]
 
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* [http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/overview/ Software Freedom Conservancy]: is this issue-related, or should it go in HTYP?
 
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* [http://www.socialtext.net/wikinomics/index.cgi?wikis_and_politics wikis and politics]
 
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* [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/25/153125/835 a Brin cross-posting on Kos]
 
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* [[High Cost of Low Prices]]: check back at some point and see if any further editing suggests itself
 
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* [http://www.chorewars.com/signup.php Chore Wars]: probably should save this in the Hypertwiki; can't see the value of it if kids can play for points instead of working for them... or is that not how it works?
 
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* [http://www.rockridgenation.org/ Rockridge Nation]: didn't I already link this somewhere? Or was I trying to decide what to do with it? Maybe a page on [[progressivism]]?
 
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* [[vbzwiki:Prints plus posters]]: should this be moved to HTYP?
 
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* Might [http://robatdt.livejournal.com/ Robadt] be interested in posting Issuepedia pages about some of the stuff he runs into?
 
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* History Explained: I was reading [http://www.historyexplained.com/index.php/ebook/main/18/event=read An Explanation of History] and had gotten to [http://www.historyexplained.com/index.php/ebook/main/3/event=read here]
 
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* the [http://www.hollywoodsign.org/247.html Hollywood Sign] site needs to be on HTYP
 
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* Irregular Webcomic on "[http://irregularwebcomic.net/1609.html post-religious morals]"
 
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* [http://memepunks.blogspot.com/2006/06/americas-war-on-science.html America's War on Science] at Memepunks
 
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* [http://www.idealist.org/ Idealist.org]
 
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* [http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=199900170 Web Credibility: Hard Earned, Harder To Prove]
 
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* [http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/index.html Glenn Greenwald]: some interesting stuff; add to RSS feeds?
 
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* Why doesn't [http://www.thismodernworld.com/ Tom Tomorrow] have an RSS feed? Can Google provide one?
 
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* Oh, right, I ''did'' start writing an article about a [[US backup government]], didn't I.
 
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* [http://hanson.gmu.edu/gamble.html Could Gambling Save Science?]
 
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* [http://911truthnc911sc.blogspot.com/ 911 Truth NC]
 
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* [http://www.911blogger.com/ 911 Blogger]
 
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* [http://www.west-point.org/publications/cushman/ Lieutenant General John H. Cushman, U.S. Army, Retired]: "The 59-minute Army War College talk and all three articles are about the planning and early execution of the War in Iraq."
 
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* [http://www.downsizedc.org/index.shtml Downsize DC]: several good initiatives
 
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* [http://www.thecockatoo.com/mychurch.html Graham in Australia] looks like he might have some insight on what's good about Christianity
 

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