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I live in the Northwestern corner of the United States. I love to do just about anything that has to do with the outdoors, which is limited to six months around here with our rainy season. Road and mountain bicycling, hiking and camping, skiing and snorkeling.

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Home & Garden > Architecture Modern homes have grown too large: Agree or disagree: 10 of 38
Housing is a big part of our current financial downturn. We witnessed an enormous increase in housing prices, peaking in 2007, and now we are mired in the return to pricing sanity and the resultant effects. Financial instruments were created, such as the Mortgage Backed Security, to take advantage of this nation wide housing ... More..
Education > Educational Philosophy Should schools be allowed to teach creationism alongside evolution as part of their science curriculum?: 22 of 78
It is not so much what is taught in our schools, as the "perspective" from which it is taught. Schools should be sanctuaries of freedom. All knowledge can cultivate and increase freedom, as long as it is presented with the intention of augmenting the students' thought process in a way that "frees" rather than "constricts" his... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Do people have absolute rights that all governments should protect?: 19 of 66
When we question whether people have absolute rights that all governments should protect, we are asking two seperate questions. Do human beings have absolute rights? Can and should governments protect these rights? Before we attempt to answer these two questions, we must take into account the role of force. There is no right... More..
Home & Garden > Architecture Building green on a budget: 1 of 3
By definition, building on a budget is building green. Theoretically, the less money you spend on a house per square foot, the greener it should be. Less money spent correlates with less material consumed from the environment. This wouldn't apply if you build a poorly constructed house that will meet an early end. In that ca... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory What's so bad about socialism: 8 of 18
It is impossible to determine what is "bad" about something until we understand what that something actually is. While the traditional definition of Socialism is "state or cooperative ownership of the means of production", interpretations have been extended to include any state intervention into the economic workings of a soc... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Environment (Other) Is environmental "sustainability" achievable?: 4 of 9
To question whether environmental "sustainability" is achievable is to question whether humans have the ability to sustain themselves on earth. It is humans that sustain themselves from the environment, not the other way around. If we take so much from the environment that we affect its sustainability, we are removing our abi... More..
Business > Finance & Insurance Understanding asset bubbles: 3 of 6
An asset bubble is the difference between the inherent or utility value of an asset and its perceived value or cost. During the peak of an asset bubble, the price of an asset may be many or even hundreds of times higher than its use value. The item is no longer purchased for its use, a phenomenon referred to as accumulation o... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory What will happen if the banking systems fail: 2 of 4
It is unlikely the banking system itself could actually fail without the concurrent failure of the currency itself. This is due to monopolistic nature of modern banking and the interlocking of the currency with this system. Money and currencies have existed through time with or without banking, but our current type of moneta... More..
Sciences > Social Science (Other) Chain reaction of increasing class polarization: The future of America's free market economy: 1 of 2
Increasing class polarization has only one primary cause: the lack of a free market. It is not America's free market economy that causes class polarization, on the contrary, it is the absence of a true free market. It is only within the workings of a "controlled" and monopolized marketplace that "polarization" of the classes ... More..
Sports & Recreation > Skiing How to use the Telemark turn while skiing: 1 of 2
There is no reason to be misleading, the telemark turn is one of the most difficult techniques to master within the entire realm of skiing. That said, once accomplished it can be very rewarding and add a very practical new dimension to your skiing experience. There is no feeling like that of successive telemark turns down an ... More..