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Law

The Perils of Law School

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Ashok:

From the page: "Harvard's tuition was $12,000 per year IN 2012 DOLLARS in the early 1970s. Now it's over $50,000 and a couple of schools are closer to $60,000. It's now routine for people to graduate with $200K and even $300K of educational debt, at plus 7% interest, accruing daily."

Posted on Sep 29, 2012

British Literature

Viola to Orsino, Act V of "Twelfth Night," lines 2471-4

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Ashok:

From the page: "And all those sayings will I overswear;
And those swearings keep as true in soul
As doth that orbed continent the fire
That severs day from night."

Posted on Aug 22, 2012

Philosophy

An Attempt at a Rethink FAQ, 8/16/12

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Ashok:

From the page: "I don't know what rationality is. I suspect it involves some sort of grip on the fact that we do make things up (convention), that we lie to ourselves, that we believe just as much as we think. All three of those phenomena are distinct and can't be illuminated by simple appeals to certainty and utility."

Posted on Aug 16, 2012

Astronomy

Mission to Mars

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Ashok:

From the page: "Why is iron on Mars more oxidized? Because it has an atmosphere that contains carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O), both of which can be a source of oxygen for oxidizing iron."

Posted on Aug 8, 2012

Poetry

Estranged

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Ashok:

From the page: "The absolutely absurd also
escapes analysis;
we know it to be life."

Posted on Jul 27, 2012

Poetry

New Rooms by Kay Ryan : Poetry Magazine

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Ashok:

From the page: "The mind must
set itself up
wherever it goes
and it would be
most convenient
to impose its
old rooms窶"just
tack them up
like an interior
tent. Oh but
the new holes
aren窶t where
the windows
went."

Posted on Jul 20, 2012

Literature

"I… am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like...

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Ashok:

Dickinson: "I... am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut burr; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves."

Posted on Jul 18, 2012

Philosophy

The Passion of Politics: "Pamphleteer," The Weakerthans

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Ashok:

From the page: "Why do I still see you
in every mirrored window,
in all that I could never overcome?"

Posted on Jul 15, 2012

Feminism

7/13/12

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Ashok:

From the page: "The news has become literacy for the illiterate."

Posted on Jul 12, 2012

Poetry

Alda Merini, "I am a furious little bee"

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Ashok:

"I am a furious
little bee."

Posted on Jun 22, 2012

Arts

We are who we were in high school: On Daniel Clowes' "Ghost...

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Ashok:

From the page: "Life is when you make wrong choices, difficult choices, for the right reasons. I have no idea what maturity is worth when it forgets the hard truth."

Posted on Jun 9, 2012

Basketball

Breaking down Jeremy Lin

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Ashok:

From the page: "Jeremy Lin has the skills, the basketball IQ and the opportunity to eventually become a perennial All-Star."

Posted on Feb 11, 2012

Philosophy

The Elusiveness of the Ordinary: Studies in the Possibility...

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Ashok:

From the page: "In developing his hylomorphist metaphysics, Aristotle "straightens out" (p. 187) ordinary experience, therein showing us that a deeper, more insightful, more passionate stance toward it is possible, beyond simple acceptance."

Posted on Feb 8, 2012

Communism

Jewcy.com | Karl Marx Predicted Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana...

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Ashok:

From the page: "Why does a 6-year old need to know so much about dating and breaking up?"

Posted on Feb 5, 2012

Liberties/Rights

Should the Church Have to Dispense Birth Control?

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Ashok:

I've seen several versions of Kevin's complaint on the interwebs, and everyone makes it seems to assume that we're doing the Catholic Church a big old favor by allowing them to provide health care and other social services to a needy public. Why, we're really coddling them, and it's about time they started acting a little grateful for everything we've done for them!

These people seem to be living in an alternate universe that I don't have access to, where there's a positive glut of secular organizations who are just dying to provide top-notch care for the sick, the poor, and the dispossessed.

In the universe where I live, some of the best charity care is provided by religious groups--in part because they have extremely strong fundraising capabilities, in part because they often have access to an extremely deep and motivated pool of volunteers, and in part because they are often able to generate significant returns to scale and longevity. And of course, the comparative discretion and decentralization of private charity, religious or secular, makes it much more effective in many (not all ways) than government entitlements.

Posted on Feb 1, 2012

Writing

20,000 unique visitors this month. Thank you all.

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Ashok:

From the page: "Where others create a space, I can work well and have a chance at being effective. But you guys create a "space," not me. Without you, it's a vacuum, not really space but nothingness. "Freedom" and "community" may not be concepts as divorced as we sometimes pretend they are."

Posted on Nov 30, 2011

Satire

The Real Reason to Miss Barney Frank

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Ashok:

From the page: " I like Barney Frank. I also think that, whatever his mistakes, he's pretty knowledgeable about finance. And you need only look at the committee list to see that it could have been so, so much worse.

Guess which Democrat now becomes the ranking member on the financial services committee? That's right, none other than our favorite batty aunt, Maxine Waters."

Posted on Nov 29, 2011

Cyberculture

Ashok Karra (notideal) on about.me

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Ashok:

Just played around with about.me, got this. Am not unhappy.

Posted on Nov 28, 2011

University/College

What's Wrong With Canadian Universities by Reg Whitaker

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Ashok:

From the page: "It is one irony among many that universities enjoy a degree of autonomy that is unparalleled among our public institutions, yet are afflicted with deep paranoia about what âoetheyâ (politicians, businesspeople, the silent majority of taxpayers) have in mind to impose upon the campuses."

Posted on Nov 27, 2011

University/College

Paraphrase of Fr. James Schall's "The Obsolescence of the...

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Ashok:

From the page: "The medieval university skipped human being in order to attempt to access being directly. The modern has buried the question of being completely in order to make as much money from students as possible while declaring itself non-profit. "Colleges are not necessarily obsolete, though many are."

Posted on Nov 5, 2011