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Crisis of Change

May 20, 2013
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Crisis of Change

I decided, about a month ago, that I needed a change. I didn’t know what…but I needed something. I think this is “My nest would be empty if it were not for the economy”  crisis.  I am middle aged, my children can feed themselves and stuff, and other than a job change last year I have been doing the same blessed thing, in the same blessed place FOREVER. I have always thrived on change so this is a sad state of affairs. But when you have a large family and a guy who refuses to budge from California? Lack...

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Memes and Poverty

April 28, 2013
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Memes and Poverty

Do you ever read something on the internet and just sigh? I have been doing that a lot lately. It is my own fault, really. I stubbornly refuse to let go of my childhood friends who, in turn, never broke free from the herd...

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The Irritated Republican

April 22, 2013
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The Irritated Republican

My better half went on a rant last night. A long impassioned one.  This is unusual for him. I do it all the time. Bend anyone’s ear who will listen about the things that are currently making me squint and mutter. Not him. He is a...

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Of Tiger Moms, Of Lotus Births, And Whether Pigs Have Wings

April 16, 2013
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Of Tiger Moms, Of Lotus Births, And Whether Pigs Have Wings

The time has come to talk of many things. Most of them no less ridiculous than the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter talks about. But, fantastically, things people...

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The Other Side of Rape

March 24, 2013
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The Other Side of Rape

The media lately has fallen down on the job. Sympathizing with rapists, failing to sympathize with the victim, failing to censure the people who blame the victim… I could...

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What If Obama Were Muslim?

December 10, 2012
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Obama as Muslim

No, seriously.  He isn’t. But what if he was? Or Catholic, Mormon, Hindu, Pagan, Atheist or Buddhist?  I ask this question not because I don’t think he is Christian....

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