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Last night I found a blog entry by a then-freshman at Scripps giving an on-the-ground reaction to last year’s “cross-burning” thing at HMC. I’ve included the full text in the extended entry section because I don’t know how long that blog (which appears abandoned) will stay up.

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It’s not that I haven’t been around. It’s that there’s nothing terribly interesting going on in the world, and that this whole being-a-father thing takes up a lot more time than I would have expected.

There are a couple of thoughts about my approach to the world and politics that I wanted to toss out here though. First is, when the government and a citizen bump into each other in the street, it should be the government that moves out of the way. That’s about as far as I go in endorsing Libertarianism.

Another thing is that for me, being conservative is closely tied up with the idea of common sense. I don’t know what common sense is or where it comes from, but at some point in my life I realized that I had it, and that’s around the same time (and the same ways) I started realizing that my political/social beliefs are what most people describe as “conservative”.

That’s about all. Maybe I’ll start posting baby pictures here.

I’m not 30 yet, but I am now officially old: my cholesterol levels have been measured and found wanting. No more bacon burgers for me. Ah, hell, with all the mad cow stuff going on, I shouldn’t be eating that anyway.

The raw data:
Overall 4.75 should be under 4.60
LDL 3.06 should be under 3.00

I believe the units are mmol/L.

24th - Schnitzels, potato salad, family Christmas. Best Christmas ever.
25th - Extended family Christmas, salmon, turkey. Pretty good.
26th - Ham. Good. Stay up all night playing Christmas video games
27th, 28th - Blank spot in memory. Probably sleep.

Words to the wise -