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Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago: The white man’s Coleman Young?
"A fawning media of urban reporters puffed up Daley for years. According to the numbers, Mayor Daley is America’s worst Mayor [and is] leaving [Mayor-elect] Rahm Emanuel with intractable problems."
Moral reasoning in white people: Whites think "universally" in a world that thinks "tribally"
"The problem with moral universalism is that it makes it impossible to develop a similar moral sense on behalf of one’s people. As Westerners, a big part of our psychological baggage lies with post-Enlightenment universalist ideologies. They feel natural to us, whereas reasoning on the basis of what’s good for us doesn’t have any moral standing at all. It’s very difficult for us to get into the mode of 'Is it good for Europeans?' ”

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Some street justice is meted out in, of all places, Chicago, Illinois. An older lady, tired of a 12 year old hoodlum and his gang throwing bricks through her window twice in one night, shoots the little bastard. And the amazing part (this is after all Daley-led anti-gun Chicago here ) she goes free and the punk goes to jail. Heh.

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Firefly Takes Flight Again With Browncoats: Redemption - Wired
Fans make their own film based on the Joss Whedon characters.

Chicago mayor offers to shoot reporter with a contraband rifle to show how effective gun control is - Chicago Reader

A techie writer praises simple pre-paid cellphones - Tech Crunch

Cheap, simple, and reliable. All you really need.
A little fun with the a moderator at my favorite sci-fi podcast site. - Escape Pod.org/
See posts 13 and 14.

Some critical reactions to Max Stirner's theory of individual liberty - The Anarchist Library