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Ergo_Dubito

Published Letters: 3     Editor's Choice: 1

  • Expensive homes?

    [Read the article: Why does Glenn Beck hate California so much?]
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    At least some of the neighborhoods most at risk in San Diego, for example, appear to be suburban communities in the north that are up in the hills. Homes in such places tend to be expensive and occupied by people of more conservative persuasions.

    Rancho Bernardo may be conservative, but it is hardly full of expensive homes up in the hills. It's full of solidly, boringly middle-class housing developments. Most of the area hit by the Ramona fire is anything but upper class.

  • why the cynicism?

    [Read the article: "Yes, we can"]
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    I found this incredibly moving. I have no idea who any of these people are (except for Kareem and Scarlett Johansen) but setting a political speech to music and turning a political slogan into a musical refrain is amazing, and just shows off the lyrical quality of Obama's speech. I think it will change minds and move hearts.

  • Cogito...

    [Read the article: Memoir in six words]
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    ...ergo dubito, dubito ergo succumbo

    (I think therefore I doubt, I doubt therefore I surrender.)