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Gygax, now Clarke, next whom?

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

As they say, deaths come in three. First Gary Gygax and now science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, aged 90. I rather thought he would outlast all of us.

While Gygax informed by geeky childhood, Clarke tapped my imagination. Did anyone else read the short story “The Nine Million Names of God” (in an anthology of […]

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Glossary: subsidiarity

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Back about a year ago when I was without a Day Job, I twice interviewed with a Catholic political lobby; there I learned the concept of subsidiarity.

I’ll recycle the current Wikipedia article’s content, since it wraps up the idea pretty well.

the principle which states that matters ought to be handled by the smallest (or, the […]

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