Month: August 2006
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Pluto is a Planet
Many of the arguments I’ve read online are making a mockery of this debate, both pro and con. I have read logically fallacious appeals to tradition, arguing that Pluto should remain a planet because that’s what we were taught in school and that’s the way it has been for 76 years. On the other side…
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Letter to the Editor: Put Yourself in the Palestinians’ Shoes
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: Imagine if Norfolk were to hold Elizabeth City responsible for a homicide committed against one of its citizens by someone from Sawyer Town. Norfolk simultaneously demands EC crack down on Sawyer Town’s…
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Letter to the Editor: Living Near a Landfill is Not a Bad Thing
This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: I’m trying to understand why people consider landfills such horrible things. I grew up in the shadow of the Virginia Beach landfill, which was simply a great big grassy hill on the…