I’ve Got Crazy Fatigue

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When I hear yet another outlandish claim or a pathologically rude statement, every now and then I catch myself shrugging in response. I start to get numb to their rejection of basic democratic values.

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How Can Christians Object To Homosexuality In The Star Wars Universe?

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Leviticus declares that “You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind”. That’s men and women. It doesn’t say anything about what ewoks or wookies should do.

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Romney Is Wrong. The USA Is Great Because We Can Be Divided.

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If Mitt Romney wants a united nation instead of a divided nation, he doesn’t have to travel far. He can go to Cuba. Or, he can go to China, where they put protesters in prison. He can go to North Korea. He can go to Saudi Arabia. Those countries are united behind their leaders – because the people in those countries aren’t allowed to speak their minds. Is that what Mitt Romney wants for America?

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How Can Mitt Romney Restore Our Future?

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If Restore Our Future is going to restore our future, then how will it do that? Does the Super PAC have a cabal of wizards casting its own time altering magic spells?

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The Few The Proud The Pissers

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The urination by U.S. Marines on dead human corpses is entirely in keeping with the moral standards of the U.S. military and other military organizations. It isn’t inexplicable. On the contrary, it’s easy to explain. When you take impressionable teenagers who have no experience of the world outside of the care of their parents, and teach them that it’s an honorable thing to punch, kick, stab, shoot, bomb, and in other ways brutalize other people merely because they’ve been ordered to do so, it is quite predictable that those young people will lose their moral foundations and perform all manner of disrespectful acts.

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The 2012 Northern Michigan Iowa Caucus Straw Poll Results!

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Up in northern Michigan tonight, we had a straw poll to see which candidates people thought would take 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in tonight’s Republican presidential caucuses in Iowa. Here are the results…

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Time To Curb The Rampant Spirituality Of Christmas

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When it’s time to pass the collection plate, spirituality suddenly doesn’t mind materialism so much. The spiritual organizations, too, will perish if all they get from their members is a smile and the repetition of a careworn story about a baby born in a barn.

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Important Stuff for Monday Morning

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This morning, I sipped on my coffee as I searched around for a pad of post-it notes on which to scribble my to do list for the day. I found this note, scribbled on the top by my four year-old …

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Culture Bringing The Tower Down

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The most successful mythologizing of tower hatred came when Americans could ascribe this rage to an outsider, an enemy who could attack these architectural monuments in sympathy with the terrorist fantasies of our own culture. We could have our towers destroyed, and claim to mourn them, too.

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Netting Quizzical Beliefs

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This weekend, a friend invited me to take the Belief-O-Matic quiz, which purports to be able to tell me what my religious practice ought to be. All this religious test could reveal to me, though, was what paths I would …

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Curiosity Launching

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Tomorrow morning, NASA is launching the Curiosity Rover into outer space, to begin a journey to mars. The large robotic rover will, once on Mars, look for signs of life beneath the Martian surface.

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Why Do So Many People Hate Computers?

Recently, in many separate arenas of my life, I have run into people who have expressed and extreme hatred and fear of the use of computers. I’ve even run into this emotion in my interactions with people on the Internet …

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Without

Make a proposal without mentioning love. Praise a painting without speaking of what you see. Write a poem without calling it an ode. Give a sermon without citing any holy book. Deliver a eulogy without using the word ‘death’.

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Roll Call: Who In Congress Defended Separation Of Church And State?

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Declaring for everybody that “In God We Trust” just isn’t respectful, and it doesn’t recognize the reality that the idea of God is simply irrelevant for millions of Americans.

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Occupy The Other Wall Street

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About 20 miles to the north of the Salton Sea, between Los Angeles and the border with Arizona, the Wall Street mill was once a busy center of economic activity, a place for miners to refine gold out the ore they hauled out of the ground. It’s been abandoned for 50 years.

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You Are The Halloween Monster

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Why on earth do children dress up as ghoulish monsters on Halloween? Could it be out of the growing suspicion that they are the monsters they fear? “This business of life living on life, on death, had been in process …

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Why Did Perseus Find Air Filled With Feathers In The North?

In a version of the story of Perseus written by Charles Kingsley, it is said that when Perseus went into the far north to seek the Grey Sisters, “he came to the edge of the everlasting night, where the air …

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Al Hamsa In North America

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What explanations can you think of for the existence of the same symbol, the eye-in-hand, in cultures separated by the Atlantic Ocean?

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