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I'm curious about this life in Polaroids.

There are pros and cons about population density, and high density is not for everyone. I know, because I'm not one that high density is for. But check out the Comparative Population Density of 49 Cities.

Telecom is spending the bucks in Washington. And here's why.

It is time to call it a career for Lanny Davis and his television punditry or political expertise or whatever he pretends he's espousing when the cameras are live.

I don't think Hugh Laurie's "American" accent is bad, but then I don't watch House.

A Brief History of the Kama Sutra.

In my previous information industry employment incarnation, we had a mantra - no credit for political or campaign entities. PERIOD. Why? Because they are notorious slow, or no, payers. Cash in advance. Those were different times, but this is exactly why those were our rules.

The Middle Earth Journal has now gone inactive. I guess we'll be seeing a lot more of that from bloggers over the remainder of the year.

Restaurants are trying to kill you with portion size.

Not a bad idea - what would YOU like to ask the Pennsylvania Democratic Party?

I do think that the "Bob Barr Effect" hasn't been considered much yet for the November election. Here's a start.

We need more rock songs about how riding the bus is cool. Can you name two?

Wikis in government.

Sunday morning is the perfect time for a maple bacon donut.

Anything written about the actions and sentiments of the dreaded "creative class".

Just more proof that being "blogtrendy" can also mean being intensely partial to the newest shallow cliches.

I've been tagged, with this:

1. When you're tagged, answer the question on your blog, with a trackback to the original post.

2. Ask an additional million dollar question — and tag 3 bloggers with answering.

The question is:

The million dollar question is - Would you give up one of your values / morals for $1 million?

Tough question to answer. Morals? Probably not. I only have a few, but they are pretty definitive of who I am. Values? Like everybody else, I have a wide range of values, they fluctuate in time in how I prioritize them, and sometimes values change to the point where they fall off the map. Some of the values have been with me, and strong, forever, but some have been changing since the beginning of my adulthood to the point where they rate pretty low as a priority to me.

On the other hand, one of the values that has been constantly dropping has been money. I value time a LOT more than money, but I value "good times" a lot more than "hard times", and I suspect that an easy to drop value would be worth a million dollars, as long as it didn't change the core of who I am.

But I guess that really wouldn't make it a value. Values are part of how you define yourself as well as morals, and this question eventually equates to

"Is there a part I like about myself that I'm willing to lose for a million dollars?"

And I guess the answer to that is no. What I like about myself, I want to keep.

Now, I'm going to tag the following bloggers

Cannablog
PoliTits
and MCCS1977

with this question:

If you found out there was a reward for turning in a family member to the police, would you do so for $1 million?

Are meant to be broken. Good read.

I claim to believe that Obama is a better candidate but spend the vast majority of my blog posts blasting Obama and promoting Hillary Clinton. Can you guess who I am?

I took Memeorandum off the blogroll today.

Why? It seems to me that it is servicing more of the news media than the blogger community at this point, and it serving as a focus point for the swarming of bloggers over the same stories. And the news stories just seem to keep getting dumber. I find it a very depressing place to go, and I figure I'll reduce my own visits to the site if I take it off the blogroll. I don't figure it will impact anyone else - in all my log analysis review, I don't think I've ever seen anyone go from this site to memeorandum. But I've got to quit reading the stories that bloggers are swarming to - much of it is a sad commentary, on both the news media and the lack of independence that bloggers seem to be showing in their choice of blog subjects.