sippicancottage.blogspot.com - 12/29/2008
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I must open by assuring everyone that I'm not denigrating other people because I don't like their houses. When I hear buzzwords like sprawl and McMansion and hyperconsumption and unsustainability and so forth, they are universally used as pretexts to allow the author to hate his fellow citizens ...
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Everything That's Wrong With Us is in This House
AMERICAN DIGEST —
Everything That's Wrong With Us is in This House snouthouse1.jpg Sippican Cottage tells you why in The Greater Fool Theory Of Housing Excerpt: There's Postmodern evil afoot here. Everything is boiled down to a pastiche, and you put all these disconnected totems into a blender and put the mixed up parts on a concrete rectangle. It's making us all crazy in a very subtle but profound way. There has been a concerted effort to dismantle all standards of right and wrong and beauty and truth. If ever truthiness was put into sticks and bricks, this house is it. When you rebel ...
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Maggie's Farm —
... The Hollywood Che Cult. A totalitarian murderer. But it was all "for the people." Stalin had many American apologists too. Why the 1918 Influenza was so bad. Obama will ration your medical care. Or try to, anyway. He'll deflect criticism by using Daschle as point man. Daschle will take the bullets, same as Hillary did. Residential architecture: Never do this Where are the real men? Armed and Dangerous (h/t, Vanderleun) One quote: One of the things this culture badly ...
Watcher's Council Results
Rhymes With Right —
... Third place with 1 1/3 points - Sippican Cottage - The Greater Fool Theory of Housing Fourth place with 2/3 points - Front Page Magazine - ...
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