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There are a few things that I currently understand. There are a lot of things that I will eventually understand. There are things that I will never understand, but I have confidence that I could understand if I spent time with a skilled teacher.
And then there are things that I cannot, will not, […]

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A friend and I were recently discussing the fallacy of many questions, a particularly nasty linguistic sleight of tongue.
For example, one cannot directly answer the question “Have you stopped beating your dog yet?” without sounding like Michael Vick, an incarcerated Michael Vick, or a dodgy politician with something to hide.
You can ask me how much […]

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As you might know, in my last post I explained why I think that pro-regulation, anti-speculation environmentalists are either stupid or evil. I used Keith Olbermann as an example but mostly because his last name sounds like the breed of a noble dog that I never got to have as a child.
Now, environmentalists, let […]

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I like Keith Olbermann. I love his delivery and find him to be most excellent on civil liberties and deflating the threats of terrorism that have the majority of this country running around like a headless Chicken Little in the middle of a PCP-induced, schizophrenic breakdown.
I may disagree with Olbermann about a lot of […]

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Lately, I’ve been trying to explain the success of this man.No matter how you feel about his politics, you have to admit that there’s something a little off about it.

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“Isn’t it surprising that we live in a universe fine-tuned for life?”
“Surprise” is a subjective emotion, so I can’t blame you for having the emotion, but if you want to tighten your thinking, then you have to ask “Compared to what?”

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Bobby Blue Collar: “Greetings, fellow citizen!”
Winifred White Collar: “Good Morrow, Good Sir!”
Bobby Blue Collar: “Perchance, did you partake in the public polling?”
Winifred White Collar: “You mean to select the Democratic nominee for President of these United States of America? How could I not — it is my patriotic duty!”

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I should probably reply to all of those comments left on my last post. It probably won’t win me any friends, but, whatever, I know too many people as it is. If you try to take down your happiness immune systems, then I will try to do the same.
This is the second post […]

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Happy Ash Wednesday or, if you don’t want the partying to stop, happy Mercredi Gras.
There is a long-standing Catholic tradition of ceremoniously rubbing ash on the foreheads of the faithful to remind them that they are all sinners.  In my childhood,

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I’m rather fond of saying that I know something like “the back of my hand.” On occasion, I’ve even been known to say that I know something like “the back of my mother’s hand.”1
It’s a good saying, but, how much do you know about the back of your hand, really? If you were […]

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