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 Friday, January 01, 2010

Link-O-Rama

By Diana Hsieh @ 2:00 PM

  • I might have linked to these images of Detriot before, but I can't help but be reminded of Atlas Shrugged in viewing them.

  • Newsflash for Christine Wicker: God has no views on the morality of abortion ... because he doesn't exist! You can guess all you like, but you're just engaged in a crude form of projection.

  • A funny spelling lesson for bloggers, commenters, and other writers of English.

  • Undoubtedly, the best There, I Fixed It ever. Who needs adapters in this economy? Little Lego men will work for cheap!

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    Friday, January 1, 2010 at 15:44:01 mst
    Comment ID: #1
    Name: William H Stoddard
    E-mail: whswhs(at)mindspring.com

    Diana: I think that, for a lot of people, "God" is a mythological representation for "someone who is perfectly just and good," and "What does God think of this?" is a way of projecting "what I regard as good or just in this situation." It's kind of like Nathaniel Branden's old question of "If John Galt were on a date and he couldn't get the cork out of the champagne, how would he deal with it?" . . . an imaginative fictional narrative way of asking questions about the right way to act. It's not literally true, and taking it as literally true is a mistake, but it may express valid questions . . . such as "What's the right way for a woman to deal with her reproductive capacities?"

    Friday, January 1, 2010 at 17:27:46 mst
    Comment ID: #2
    Name: RT

    Those photos are scary. And to think it is an entirely 'man-made' problem. Get rid of the unions and the regulations and the taxes, and all those abandoned buildings would flourish again.

    Michigan sure is gunning to be America's first 'failed state'. Check out this story about forcing business owners into a public sector union (including creating a phony entity for them to 'bargain' against). http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/12/michigan-forces- ...

    Friday, January 1, 2010 at 18:59:33 mst
    Comment ID: #3
    Name: Shea

    From the funny spelling lesson: "I'm much better at holding my liquor than a panda bear"

    I bet he is! Panda bears are quite difficult to hold.

    Friday, January 1, 2010 at 23:55:16 mst
    Comment ID: #4
    Name: Amy Nasir
    E-mail: amynasir(at)aol.com
    URL: http://www.greatlakesobjectivists.com

    I live 20 minutes from downtown Detroit (in the suburb of Redford), and there are small efforts to better the city, namely an organization called Blight Busters:
    http://www.blightbusters.org/index.html

    But this is such small fry, and their goal is not only to demolish abandoned homes, but to try to build new ones, which doesn't make sense -- it would be nice for the three counties, Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne, to divide the city into three parts, and deal with it that way. Otherwise, it will probably keep decaying until the last person turns the light off and runs for a suburb. If divided, Oakland county could manage the profitable parts, as it has the most resources being one of the wealthiest counties in the nation, and the other counties on the north and south sides could run through with the bulldozers, and protecting those who are brave enough to stay.

    It would be a sad thing to do, but not as sad as the slow death Detroit is experiencing. No one in Detroit is trying to revive the industrious and capitalistic spirit of 75-100 years ago, but to revive a contradiction -- you can not run, no less revive, a city that is comprised of entitlement-minded sad-sacks thrashing in a tangled web of government red tape and victimhood, where the owners of those decaying buildings don't have the incentive or the money for demolition, and those poor souls living there are unwilling to project events to the time of their next welfare check. Unfortunately, it wasn't long after the rise of Detroit's prosperity that the ideas of communism infiltrated business and labor in the '30s, hence the obscenities of the UAW.

    In the meantime, I should say that there are plenty of good spots to be found in the city, and it is fairly safe. I enjoy the early history of Detroit, and I recommend the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Renaissance Center (GM building) for inspiration. I especially like a renovated 1920s-inspired jazz/swing nightclub called Cliff Bell's:
    http://www.cliffbells.com/

    Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 8:52:41 mst
    Comment ID: #5
    Name: Richard

    RE: Detroit.
    Check out the short vid from Steven Crowder where he visits Detroit and goes over its history.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw

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