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Author: Erik Loomis

Movin’ On Up

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On March 27, 2013
I know everyone is getting excited about the new season of Mad Men. The Onion's AV Club has a great article about 10 episodes that get to the depth of a character or theme. There's one paragraph to note particularly: Where other shows attack the...

National Monuments

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On March 26, 2013
I am very happy to see that President Obama named five new national monuments yesterday. Two are dedicated to preserving public lands--the San Juan Islands in Washington and the Rio Grande Del Norte in New Mexico. Obama's public lands policy has not been very good....

Theremin!

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On March 25, 2013
It is so fitting that Vladimir Lenin would be a huge proponent of the theremin. See here and here. If there's one thing Lenin loved, it was Good Vibrations. Technically, the Beach Boys used an offshoot of the theremin called the electro-theremin, but we're really...

Friends of Coal Miners

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On March 25, 2013
Who are the real friends of coal miners? Like in the timber wars of the 1980s, an exploitative industry and its lackey politicians have claimed that the industry looks out for the miners against those evil environmentalists, while at the same time engaging in land...
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