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Month: January 2012

Help the Environment with Cactus Sucking Selenium

  • Culture
January 31, 2012June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It has been discovered that the prickly pear cactus sucks up selenium, regarded as a pollutant in the West San Joaquin Valley, slowly enough to not be toxic but enough to be of benefit to selenium-deficient diets.  In small quantities, […]

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The Salinas Gang Problem and Restricted Housing

  • Culture
January 30, 2012June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Is there any connection between the fact that Salinas has the gang problem that it does, and the fact that Monterey County’s restrictions on the building of housing are very strict? I can see why the inhabitants of the Monterey […]

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On the Whole Postmodern in Law and Economics Thing

  • Economics
January 18, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Victor Davis Hanson, in this attached essay, claims that President Obama has a postmodern vision of law. I am not necessarily going to argue that point. I have maintained, already, that President Obama has what I call an allergy to […]

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The Suburban Paradox

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January 17, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The attached article criticizes the effect of ‘greenbelts’ in Britain, and calls for ‘green patches’ instead of ‘green belts.’  The paradox is that a lot of what people move out to the suburbs for is precisely what these anti-suburban NIMBYs […]

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The Continuing Presumption of Airlines

  • Culture
January 12, 2012June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I am prepared to admit that the California Bullet Train may prove to be a failure, even though France, Spain, Germany, and China have them! I voted for the train originally, not so much to eliminate automobiles, but as an […]

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Popular Music: The Ancients and the Moderns

  • Culture
January 12, 2012June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In eighteenth century Europe, one of the favorite intellectual debates was the Debate of the Ancients and the Moderns, whether Europe had now exceeded the greatness of the Greco-Roman era or had not yet done so. There is a similar […]

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Comments on the Film “The Descendants”

  • Culture
January 10, 2012June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I recently saw a film called The Descendants, about a large family of landed aristocratic background in Hawaii. Though the Hawaiian setting is interesting, it is a story that could happen in many cultures – California is not without a […]

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It’s an interesting fact that the Christian Reconstructionists, hardly liberal, were postmillennial. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/books/review/religion-and-the-rise-of-capitalism-benjamin-m-friedman.html

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Well, in certain circles we’ve had Rook cards for years. Nothing more gender neutral than they. https://notthebee.com/article/in-a-devastating-blow-to-sexism-dutch-woman-creates-gender-neutral-deck-of-cards

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22 Jan

OK then who gets custody of the Republicans? https://disrn.com/news/trump-discusses-creation-of-new-political-party-with-allies

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