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Excerpt: A quote from a recent Atlantic blog post named Immoderation Nation caught my eye, “extreme behavior of all kinds is both our glory and our potential downfall.” It is hard to dispute such a statement, given the American propensity to take all matters to an extreme.  Why is this the case? The pioneering mentality has to do with a lot of it: the wild-wild-west drive where it’s all or nothing.  The collective mentality of a people where the land was wrangled from the supposedly savage Indians; followed by flights with its numerous foes: the Spanish, the French, and the British. …

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Excerpt: A few weeks ago, I seriously considered buying a Kindle.  After much research on the web, I realized the task was futile.  I live in Europe at the moment, so the Whispernet function would be useless here.  As I am Canadian, with no US address nor credit card, purchasing the device and subsequent ebooks would be impossible.  On a desperate whim, I called up a cousin of mine in Massachusetts, and asked if I could use her card and address to order.  She told me there’s a backorder of those anyway, so why not wait till they get stock? Then a…