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A coyote crossed my path tonight, jay walking across University in the night and the rain between the golf course and the cemetery.
Peter Birk
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Slacker defense
A few defense lawyers inverted the arguments of the prosecution to assert that the Germans' authoritarian mindset and obedience to the state exonerated them from any personal guilt. Seems a little crazy to make the defense be “our culture values authority and obedience therefore we are not responsible for
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Jim Crow at Nuremberg
Both the United States—concerned that its “Jim Crow” system of racial segregation not be labeled a crime against humanity—and the Soviet Union wanted to avoid giving an international court jurisdiction over a government’s treatment of its own citizens Jim Crow was the inspiration for the racial laws
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Behavior vs. Structure
In its focus on “culturally determined patterns of behavior” as opposed to structural factors such as these, the urban-adjustment framing introduced at the Cincinnati workshop consistently mistook the symptoms of the postwar urban crisis for its causes. The behavior of the new urbanites became the symptoms of the crisis because
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Distracting Behavior
Rightly or wrongly, Clinton seemed more interested in modifying the behavior of these voters than in trying to understand the material foundations of their grievances Does this work in MAGA’s favor? Their behavior is so distracting that no one bothers to look to see what’s at the root
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Accepting The Other
“The basis of all human-relations work with all people,” Giffin reminded his audience, “is that you have first to accept them as they are before they are willing to modify their behavior.” It does not sound like this step was made, but it sounds like a good step. The first
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Watching the live-action Cowboy Bebop. I love the anime; I was put off by Netflix’s series when it first came out, but now I’m giving it another chance. It is doing an amazing job capturing the feel of the original, and got a lot better once Daniella came
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Life is Wild
You are doing great
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Humankind
My Civ binge didn’t last long this time. I think it’s a fun game, but it’s a little cartoonish, and that starts to wear on me after a while. Humankind didn’t pan out for me; like Endless Legend, an earlier game from Amplitude, it was pretty
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The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years
The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived. The fact that those distantly related Indo-European languages had almost the same pronunciation of a single word meant that the word—and the concept behind it—had most
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#caturday
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Civ VI Again
I started binging on Civ VI again. I wonder what that says about my state of mind. My gaming has been focused on Civ VI, sudoku, crosswords, and solitaire. I got some speakers for the Xbox’s monitor; now I don’t have to wear headphones to play. I also