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Friday, Jan 16, 2009

Lara and I are still without a car (ever since the deer incident), and I was reminded this week why I've been so slow in looking for a new one.

I meet with a pathologist in Baltimore twice a month as part of my branch's ovarian cancer study, and I rented a zip car to get there. There are many reasons for not owning a car, including the freedom from liability, the extra money saved from insurance and fuel expenses, and the daily pleasure reading while riding the train or bus. This week, however, it was the horrendous DC traffic that really made me grateful for public transit.

But I digress. What I do miss about owning a car is NPR.

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What have I been telling you? The libertarians have had it right all along!
# Posted by Spencer    Saturday, Jan 17 2009, 2:16 PM
I'm jealous that what constitutes "ramblingness"
for you is, in my view, really quite articulate and
intelligible :-) You make some good points and raise some interesting questions. When I find some extra time and attention, I'll attempt a substantive comment.
# Posted by Bryce    Wednesday, Jan 21 2009, 2:34 PM
Wow, Elliott. I think you were once told by a group of admiring girls in some eclectic cafe in China or some other exotic locale how truly brilliant your musings are on moral relativism are and you've secretly been biding your time waiting for the moment to resurrect this topic in order to once again reap the respect from your intellectual inferiors. This is me bowing . . . and bowing.
# Posted by David    Friday, Jan 23 2009, 5:29 PM



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