Monthly Archives: March 2012

Social Media and Sociology

March 26, 2012
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Social media is a funny thing. It has taught me things I never thought to learn. Recently it has shed a spotlight on the fact that the people in politics are completely out of touch with the general populace. Which is probably not an earth shaking revelation for most of you. But what it also has proven to me is that the majority of us, no matter which political bumper sticker we are apt to buy, are more the same than we are different. My Facebook wall is a bit like Switzerland. Neutral ground. I am the kind of...

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Brushes with Death and Fame. Sort of.

March 23, 2012
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This is the kind of thing you cannot make up. What a day. First my stepson and daughter in law come over and inform me that Robert Powell was shot and killed in Los Angeles two years ago. Who is Robert Powell? Well, he was my stepson’s best friend all through junior high school and up until 2009 when he moved to San Diego. He is also a kid that I have had a lot of contact with. I am not going to go into the details but let me just say that his childhood was as horrific as...

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Finding Love for Lincoln

March 21, 2012
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I am going to take a break from my current need to post political ramblings and post something a bit on the lighter side.  Back in September of 2010 I was wandering around the internet looking for…I don’t remember what.  I stumbled onto the Habitation of Justice blog. The tagline for the blog alone was enough to draw me in “One Man Journeys the World in an Epic Search for Truth, Justice… and Great Pizza”.  I mean, what isn’t to love about that? It is what a super hero would say if Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett wrote him....

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Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin…What Religious Freedom Really Is

March 18, 2012
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I don’t know what has gotten into me lately. I’ve been obsessed with politics. More specifically with all the misunderstandings and misinterpretations and outright fallacies that people around me believe to be truth to the core of their being. It frustrates me because the information that would correct these things is more readily available right now than it has ever been. You just have to type in Thomas Jefferson or George Washington to find their actual thoughts on things like separation of church and state. Written by them. And I have to tell you, it really, really isn’t what...

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Christianity, Politics and a Lecture.

March 16, 2012
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This started out as a blog post about how the denial of birth control coverage because an employer has a religious exemption could potentially set a precedent that could bite us all in the gluteus maximus. While it was still percolating and solidifying in my brain I ran across this little published news tidbit: Soldier killed for being an atheist Which sent me down another, but related, bunny trail altogether. Proponents of the rights of the Georgetown to deny contraception coverage have been screaming bloody murder about how making them adhere to the law of the land and provide...

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