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...More Information Than You Require,you write about mole-men. In fact, you have 700 mole-man names much in the way that you had 700 hobo names in your first book. Can you please explain the mole-men? I have so many questions about them. Many people do, and many of them will go unanswered. Mole-men became an obsession of mine as I was writing the first book. I wrote some interesting facts and a motto for all 51 states. For Virginia, I said the motto was "The Old Dominion," which was very arrogant of Virginians...
...explain the current financial crisis to me? No, I can only say that I hope you have done what I did, which is to buy a lot of gold, melt it down and build a suit of armor out of it so you can fight your way out of the food riots that will occur in the near future, probably next Tuesday...
...Fears of a serious economic decline or even recession in the U.S. and world-wide explain the deep losses markets experienced last week after initially reacting with euphoria to the rash of government efforts to prevent finance and banking systems from imploding. As the week closed out, the global outlook was simply confused, as European indices generally finished higher, the Dow slumped 1.4%, and Asia's national markets featured both gains and losses...
...while a staunch Communist. Such things were not uncommon at the time. What most find surprising, however, is that the secret was kept for so long. At the same time, his supporters stress that any such incident should not detract from his work as an artist and could even explain the nature of his genius: his moral detachment and near-obsession with the themes of denunciation and betrayal. "I have always known [Kundera] was a Communist, a man who had believed the idea, " says Pavel Janousek, a literary historian at the Czech Republic's Academy of Sciences. "Something like this...
...What can possibly explain this connection? For starters, it makes intuitive sense that a person who pledges allegiances to the local football team would be more willing to back a favorite politician. "In many ways, politics is a spectator sport in which you get to rank the teams, or the candidates, through a vote," says Clemson University economist Robert Tollison. Also, politics and sports are both ideal outlets for those seeking a communal experience. "If everyone knows you're an Auburn fan, you can talk about the games with other people, and argue about tactics and the like," says Tollison...