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• Writing Texas, Writing Home: The Coastal View

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 566
  For those of you you who don’t know Texas or have never visited or traveled in Texas, my latest story is up at Texas Monthly Online. Its a reworking of a post here at The Agonist from last week. Some parts have been added and other parts removed. Hopefully for the better. I hope, in the coming months, to spend ...
  2 weeks ago

• A City Of Malls

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 566
  Its not exactly a consumerism backlash, but its an interesting development in Singapore, nonetheless: “Haji Lane is closer to our aesthetic,” she continued. “Here we feel free to go a step further and explore new things. We showcase our own artwork, and the crowd is very encouraging.” Indeed it is. Haji ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tiger Woods Falls Into a Trap

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 566
  I wrote a few months ago about the remarkable performance of Tiger Woods during one of the PGA tournaments – the BMW Open – in which he played nearly perfect golf in order to tie the course record for an 18 hole round. He went on two days later to win that tournament, followed as he was hole by hole by about ...
  2 weeks ago

• An Embrasure Into An Alternate Reality

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 566
  I hop into the car to spend the night in San Antonio, my former home and still hometown. It’s late Thanksgiving Evening and even now I am full. A day of corn-based, over sucrosed food and now apathy. After an hour on the road I am greeted on the outskirts of San Antonio by one of those newfangled high-def ...
  3 weeks ago

• December 2009 Agonist Employment Poll

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 566
  December 2009 Agonist Employment Poll: Fulltime employed and have not been unemployed in 2009 Full time employment but was unemployed for part of 2009 I am part-time employed but was unemployed for part of 2009 I have casual work now but was unemployed for part of 2009 I continued part-time ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gone Fishing

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 566
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  3 weeks ago

• Dubais Fantasy Island Gamble in the Persian Gulf Comes to an Ugly End

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 566
  What’s the difference between the United States and Dubai? The US is a playground for the wealthy just like Dubai, but at least America hasn’t declared bankruptcy – yet. Yesterday Dubai World, which is the investment arm of the Dubai emirate, asked its creditors to accept a six month freeze on interest due on ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Buddhist Kingdoms Descent Into Hell

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 566
  In light of this story in the Washington Post today about the trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief, I thought I would post a story I wrote for publication while I was in Cambodia. It was never published, as the travel editor I was working with was laid off the day after I filed the story. Some of my posts on ...
  4 weeks ago

• About All Those Hate Crimes Against Christians

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 566
  In Catholic school, every so often the nuns would want to gauge our religious purity by challenging us with “The Test”. Sister Rita Agnes, or whoever that year was in charge of our catechistic upbringing, would ask: “If the Communists came this minute into our classroom and demanded that ten students be ...
  4 weeks ago

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