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“I’m baaaaaack.”

Wow, watching Keith Olbermann’s special comment tonight [“Are YOURS the actions of a true American?”] <deep breath> I felt for the first time in years <hairs standing on end> that the...

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Broken by design (Military Commissions Act)

Concerning passage of yesterday’s U.S. torture legislation, a Friend whom I respect wrote — You are, so long as this law is on the books, now in a dictatorship. No deep thought is required to recognize...

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Unfuddle project management cool, plus provides free Subversion repository

I realized today ~anyone can experience the benefits of version control without needing a webhosting account. Because an account at Unfuddle.com provides your own Subversion repository — to which you...

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Election Day Prayer 2006

Back on Election Day 2004 I wrote — Let today be the day that the curse is lifted. Same prayer today. What’s changed? Today more of us recognize the curse as curse and are ready to have it lifted....

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RIP, Peabody the Munificent

S rescued Peabody 13+ years ago from the middle of a busy city intersection. He was disoriented and lost in the aftermath of a tornado. We never found his owner. That person’s loss has been our...

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Silent learning

I seem to have utterly run out of things to say. So I’m learning different ways to speak for when I do have something to say again. I’m self-studying German. Can a mid-life dude learn another language?...

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What we have done, and what we have left undone

The U.S. Republic[an] Party always claims to be fiscally responsible. The Religious Right, which even now mostly supports GOP means and ends, acclaims stewardship of God’s creation. But do the monetary...

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Conservative Christianity’s bitter harvest

I’m quick to admit my foreseer is on again/off again, and regularly needs a swift kick to work at all. But I did foresee this outcome; it drives much of the deep grief I felt and feel … The Religious...

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The end of (monolingual) days

After spending much of the past year self-studying German, then exercising what I’d learned last month in Berlin, I’ve now moved forward with my plan of returning con mucho gusto to learning Spanish....

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Rose Victorious

Suddenly, I finally get Sigur Rós*. And now I am nearly speechless, in awe at the sheer melancholy beauty all around me as I proceed through each of their recordings. As an example, check this lovely...

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Election Day prayer answered, 2008

Four years later, Today is the day that the curse is lifted. Dear God, I can breathe again for the first time in eight years! We have demonstrated to the world now that we are not, in fact, eat up with...

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Journey from Mars (The clash of the worldviews, making sense of)

Well. I still sometimes feel like a stranger in a strange (and crazy) land. We continue to witness clashing worldviews here in the U.S. that seem to me less like disagreements and more like we’re from...

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RIP, Emma the Big Hearted

We rescued Emma the Bouvier back on Oct. 31, 2002 (along with her lifelong pal, Lillie). Their first 4-5 years had been tough, mostly left by themselves in a basement with little to do but eat, sleep,...

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RIP, Lillie “Fierce Huntress of the Plains,” my special girl

Today the dynamic-duo Bouvier adventure we began on Halloween, 2002 has come to a gentle end. Lillie died today as gracefully as I’ve ever seen, all on her own. My prayer for each creature for whom...

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Old wine in new wineskins

I’ve now transitioned this legacy content to revitalized TextDrive hosting, powered by the latest version of Textpattern. Moving the content was the priority, verifying its destination integrity so far...

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