Author name: Ed

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It’s Soooo Close!

My MINI is sitting at the dealer, only a couple hours from here, but I’m going to have to wait until Tuesday to pick it up! Bummer. Note: blogging hiatus coming up – I’m going to an out-of-town wedding, tomorrow.

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Your Name Offends Us: NCAA Bans Indian Mascots for Postseason

The NCAA has banned Indian names and mascots at postseason events. One question: if a given people group (tribe, in this case) is not offended by the use of its name and/or likeness by a college athletic department, but outsiders without any ties to that group deem the group’s name, itself, to be “hostile or

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The Zo’é People

I saw a show, last night, that reminded me why I would make a very poor cultural anthropologist. It was about the Zo’é people, also known as the Poturu, a tribe of about 160 in Brazil, near the headwaters of some Amazon River tributaries. They were unknown in the West until 1987.

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Credit Cards

I paid off all my credit card debt, today, and it feels good. My guitar, my first and second blown transmissions from my old car, business expenses, a bunch of stuff: gone. Of course, I’m not starting law school debt-free; I’ll have a car loan and enough student loans to float a small country for

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