What If I Don’t Desire Epictetus?

“Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one’s desires, but by the removal of desire.” – Epictetus What’s the point of freedom, if you don’t want to do anything with it?

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The Anatomy Of A Centaur

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The idea of a centaur seems like mythological bliss, until you start asking the anatomical question of where all the parts go.

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The Softest Things

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“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.” – Lao Tzu Is this brilliance or pure idiocy?

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Break the Monotony. Be Strange and Extravagant.

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This Monday morning, it will do you well to remember that the highest responsibility of any person in a free society is to make a contribution that is derived from one’s individuality. We cannot move our work forward merely by adopting the ideas and behaviors of our neighbors in the next cubicle.

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The Other Shoe Drops In Dreams

I’m sorry, Mr. President. The kitchen would be cleaner, but we just had the Funkadelic All Stars as house guests.

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Is Religious Discrimination In Adoption Okay?

The religious groups advocating for this law say that they need it to protect their First Amendment freedom of religion. Of course, the groups would be using government money to punish people for their religious beliefs.

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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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