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Montaillou – Life in a Medieval Village

…rule over their subjects and make them behave in a certain way. Behind the commonplace idea that a man is the product of his education lies the more complex notion of a physical link with the bread which built the body, and, through the bread, with the land which produced the grain and to which the man will one day return.  The soul of man is bread.  – “Man is the product of his education.”  We are not born with inherent knowledge and thus taught…

The crisis in Thailand, from the perspective of a foreigner

…Thaksin, a populist PM much-loved by the country’s poor as well as the not-so-poor in the northeast, isn’t a persecuted innocent like others suggest either. However cynical you are of the Thai judiciary, Thaksin was well-known for his corruption as well as blatant disregard for human rights. During his reign, he was openly hostile to international media who questions his methods of dealing with the insurgency in the south (see below) and his busi…

Salesman vs. Salesman – How to lower your bills

…card and the teenager simply applies a discount code and there you go. 2. Comcast – Comcast was charging me the outrageous price of $76 per month for high speed cable internet and basic cable service. This was rather high and there are plenty of competitors. Further, I don’t care about TV because with high speed internet I can watch all my shows through the net anyway. Boxee, Netflix, ABC.com and all the other networks often put their stuff onlin…

Chaos is coming to a town near you.

…had to reduce their spending on other things in life ( Including those sub-prime mortgages, which also were resetting to higher rates. Sub-prime just made this whole thing happen a lot faster ). With lesser demand, Oil/Gas prices went down. The public may think that lower prices is the norm, but it won’t last. As oil depletes more, and demand catches up, we will be right back to higher prices. With this boom to bust cycle going on, somebody is go…

The Truth about Thanksgiving

…versary and escape before he could do physical harm. o The targeting of non-combatants like women, children, and the elderly was never contemplated. Indians expressed shock and repugnance when the Europeans told, and then showed, them that they considered women and children fair game in their style of warfare. o A major Indian “war” might end with less than a dozen casualties on both sides. Often, when the arrows had been expended the “war” would…