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02 Sep 2005, 09:20AM: Life, Liberty and Property: I have been watching CNN. The Houston Astrodome now has its own ZIP code and the people who run it have cleared the Astrodome schedule through December.

What is the proper function of a government? Before everything else - before schools, before unemployment compensation, before alcohol regulation, before the CDC - a government has to protect its citizens from malicious forces inside and out. That's why we have an army and police. Right now there are parts of New Orleans that have fallen into anarchy. Property lost its protection first, but now life has as well. Oh God.

02 Sep 2005, 11:55AM: Impulses: What we are now learning about the devastation in the Gulf combines with a growing desire, borne of my working life, to become a manager, a good one.

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