Posted: November 14, 2009 at 3:46 pm | Tags: Architecture, Buildings, Business, children, college, cornfield, country, Government, Housing, londonderry, new urbanism, Rybczynski, town-country
Back in my undergrad days, I started putting up my papers online for people to see. So I decided, what the hell, I’ll keep the tradition alive in grad school as well with anything that may be interesting. Peer review is always good too, of course. For those curious, you can buy the book here and see the official New Daleville website here.
On to the review…
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Posted: June 22, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Tags: children, cigarettes, communism, Crime, Danger, Government, Hookah, HR 1256, Job, lil wayne, Markets, marlboro, Obama, osama, Pictures, socialism, tobacco
Just what we need: More government control over another aspect of our lives. As a former smoker (still a hookah smoker), I can tell you up front that this bill is a complete joke and abuse of power.
How you ask? Well lets just look at the “findings” by congress right from the bill itself.
1) The use of tobacco products by the Nation’s children is a pediatric disease of considerable proportions that results in new generations of tobacco-dependent children and adults.
That’s all well and good. However Childhood Obesity (up to 33% of kids) is much more rampant than the number of high school seniors that smoke (up to 24%). Not to mention that studies are showing that teens are smoking at substantially lesser rates than in years past, and this figure continues to fall yearly. Other problems facing kids, such as childhood obesity, all the nonsense on the television and in the media, and the glorification of anti-culture culture is on the rise, and much more dangerous.
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