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SplendorQuotes:
Splendor is the interior experience of being so enthralled by the act of creating the values that contribute to and ultimately comprise your idealized perfect self that, while you are experiencing it, you are your idealized perfect self.

Living is what you're doing when you're too enthralled to notice. Dying is what you're doing when all you can do is notice.

Man is the only animal capable of comprehending what his life requires, and he is the only animal capable of failing to do what his life requires.

Self-love is the joy and reverence you earn and deserve by the relentless pursuit of your deepest desire. Self-esteem is the high regard in which you presume to hold yourself in appreciation for the accomplishment of absolutely nothing.

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Greg Swann's writings
Wild Cochise Gang:
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and Christmas cards

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Read my free e-book about love, splendor and philosophy, The Unfallen

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My Myers-Briggs type is ESTJ: Administrator--Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of population. Take a free Myers-Briggs personality test.

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War with Iraq:
The Cain Doctrine
The 'wrest' of the story
Taking a better grip
Why the Bush Doctrine
will prevail--and fail
A Just and
Libertarian war...
Persephone's
second coming...

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presence of the recent past
Nick and Norm drive the point home
A Costco family Christmas
Hang tough
The season's greetings
Curing the incuriosity of the East
A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan
Colloquy with a goat
Back-handing the sinister American left
To Condi, with sweetness
Reds
Sacrificing Diana
Defusing the Unabomber
Let 'em eat steak
Shyly's delight
Anastasia in the light and shadow

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BloodhoundRealty.com
I am a a Realtor working in sunny Phoenix, Arizona, and the Designated Broker for Bloodhound Reatly. I am an Accredited Buyer's Representative, a Certified Buyer's Representative, a Certified Residential Specialist, an E-Pro Internet Certified Realtor and a Graduate of the Realtor Institute. I speak frequently on real estate issues and write a weekly column for West Valley sections of the Arizona Republic. If you need--or you know someone who needs--to buy or sell a home in the Metropolitan Phoenix area, I would be grateful for the opportunity to compete for the business. I think I represent the best of all worlds: Objectivist intelligence, Libertarian integrity and Catholic conscientiousness.

For a liberty-loving take on real estate news, visit the Bloodhound Home Marketing Group weblog. And if what I'm doing suits the readership of your web site or weblog, please do link to it.

Or go me one better by putting the customizable button above on your web page. Either way, for every person you refer who buys or sells a home with us, we will donate 10% of our net commission to the charity or advocacy group of your choice (within limits; we won't give money to people who kill people). Find out more from our referral page.

Play
I am very interested in the gaming industry as a business, but the only game I actually play is poker, mostly on-line poker. These are the sites where I play:

PokerStars
My favorite site overall. This is where World Series of Poker Champion Chris Moneymaker got started. Very tough games, though, although the multi-table tournaments are incomparable. This site is not for the beginner--nor for the faint of heart.

Paradise Poker
Not quite as tough as PokerStars, but not quite as perfect a user-interface, either. The single-table tournaments are fun and frequent.


Party Poker
This is the ideal place for beginners. The user-interface is not great, and the games can be very slow, but you can learn to play here without getting eaten alive.

If you don't know how to play poker, but want to learn, a place to begin is my Amazon list of poker books for beginners. Just remember: If you don't have a Positive Expected Value--you're gambling...