Collaborations of Abstraction

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You and whose army?

Posted by: Rebecca A. Watson on: February 10, 2010

A friend of mine (I won’t name names, but he sometimes writes on this blog) told me about this website The Vigilant Citizen. It’s like a car wreck: you want to turn away but you just can’t. (I wasn’t even going to link to it originally, but I thought why not? I mean, in the [...]

A Halloween lesson courtesy of the Swedish and Norwegians

Posted by: Rebecca A. Watson on: November 2, 2009

This weekend Brett Farve and the Vikings beat the Green Bay Packers. For those not familiar with the nuances of the upper Midwest, Wisconsin and Minnesota might seem to be similar, if not identical, states. However, from the food (cheese curds) to vocabulary (A water fountain is a bubbler? What?!?) to the sports teams, we [...]


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