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I’ve been busy looking for the root causes of happiness.
So far, I’ve got baseball, flying, and as few trees as possible. Comfy tennis shoes. Rascal Flatts. Macaroni Grill and Starbucks. And, naturally, Diet Dew.
I’m not sure that this really cuts it. Although it might get close.
Coming soon: how friendship plays into happiness.
Where does friendship come [...]
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I once took a class taught by a philosopher. It was entitled “Early Western History,” which was a damn dirty bit of untruth in advertising. Early Western History is hardly the exclusive story of philosophers.
But my main gripe with the philosopher is that he tore down everything I find holy and good in the world. [...]
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I often argue that college simply isn’t for everyone. I’ll enumerate my reasons later, but before I do I’d like to give a pointed vignette about innumeracy.
I went into a gas station last night. I have a diet dew addiction, and diet dew is served on tap at this particular gas station. I usually prefer [...]
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Found today. Looks like I’m out of a job.
As it goes, Arthur Brooks, a Syracuse University economics professor and author of the new book “Gross National Happiness,” began mining happiness data back in his college days.
The prevailing wisdom then, Brooks told me, was that liberal folks were happier — that conservatives were close-minded, rigid and [...]
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In which I respond to a post on singing the National Anthem in Spanish. You can find it here.
The author argues that language is unimportant. Check it out:
Why, in a country deemed free, do people care what language you speak? We are a melting pot. It is futile to attempt silencing the language of everyone [...]
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I just bought a book by Mark Steyn. I’m not finished with it yet, but the basic premise is that multiculturalism and falling birth rates will lead to an Islamic society across what used to be the Western world. And this is a bad thing.
While I’m not going to talk about how much I agree [...]
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I made the mistake of reading StudLife, our campus newspaper. They refuse to publish my articles, because I do not meet their rigorous standards for journalistic excellence. Consider excerpts from the following article:
In response to a reaccreditation report calling for an improved level of diversity on the Washington University campus, the University has formed the [...]
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My aspirations aren’t so grand. I want to go back and start a business in Tarkio and hire a bunch of Tarkians and make something good. I want a family of rugrats who play pirates with corn cobs and eat pancakes at their Grandma’s house and beat their dad at Stratego. I want to sit [...]
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Why are people happy?
I’m happy when I’m doing what I like, surrounded by people I like, and it’s above fifty degrees.
I like to fly airplanes and listen to Mike Shannon call home runs and read books that don’t ask me to concentrate. I like classes that answer questions. I like open spaces and Raspberry Mocha [...]
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And oh by the way, on the youtube for this movie, they quote Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg.
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