Author Archives: chrisash

Blogfing from rhe iphone

By chrisash | July 28, 2008

I installed the WordPress for iPhone application today, and this post is the result.
There are a lot of small drawbacks, but I like what they’ve put together so far. Some of the drawbacks come from the limitations of the iPhone itself, cut and paste is an obvious example here.
I like that photo attachments are included [...]

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No beer, no civilization.

By chrisash | July 10, 2008

“Most of the world’s population today,” Johnson writes, “is made up of descendants of those early beer drinkers, and we have largely inherited their genetic tolerance for alcohol.”
I was about to reply to my last post (thanks for the discussion) but this George Will article crossed my desk, and I thought it was relevant to [...]

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1 Step Forward, 1 Step Back

By chrisash | July 8, 2008

Nobody in the antipoverty community and nobody in city leadership was going to welcome the news that the noble experiment that they’d been engaged in for the past decade had been bringing the city down, in ways they’d never expected.
-American Murder Mystery, TheAtlantic.com
A long article, but an important story regarding public poverty policy. I hadn’t [...]

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