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WRITINGS

I enjoy writing. That's not to say that everything I write is necessarily worth reading. But I'll let you make that decision.

What is presented here is divided into categories: Politics, For Classes, and Miscellaneous.

Politics: Some people base their beliefs on a god. Some people base their ideals on a single principle. Some people base their beliefs on nothing. I, however, have chosen to slowly formulate a personal philsophy based on several key principles -- beliefs that I find inherent to human existence. The most fundamental of these principles is simply that people have a right to be who they want to be, without interference. And if people deserve a right to pursue happiness -- as anyone does -- they must be allowed to achieve a position that allows such a pursuit. Everything I believe is based off of that concept.

For Classes: These essays were written for class. While they contain viewpoints I can call my own, they also contain a certain element of intellectual overthought. That is, some of this is me -- and some of it isn't.

 

 

My Tautological Hackery:

Politics
a compilation of Y2K lies from dubya
70 collected pages on religion and politics
the absurdity of extremes
the war

Classes
on beer snobbery
an examination of abortion
reasoned belief

Misc
a 1999 pre-super bowl critique
on the pain of a college student
a letter I wrote to Blender magazine
a review of The Matrix: Revolutions
the pilgrim hat (and the f***ing Masspike)
on the holiday season
a case of improbability (the 2006 Tigers)
eating our way through heaven; running her way through hell (the 2007 Chicago marathon)