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Roman Catholic Bishops Out of Control
And especially not on contraception. Ever since Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church’s senseless ban on birth control in 1968, few doctrines have been as vilified, ridiculed and outright ignored by Catholics – evidenced by a recent study showing that 98% of American Catholic women have used some form of contraception. It’s hard to believe,…
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For Stonum, Steep Learning Curve for Blown Chances
Maybe when you are a sports fan, hearing that an athlete got drunk doesn’t register as the worst offense ever. That he got behind the wheel of a car should be shocking, but it isn’t even surprising. So when an extremely talented football player was arrested in 2008 for drunk driving, it really didn’t register.…
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Web On Strike Tomorrow!
Tomorrow is the official day of the global strike to help prevent Congress and the Senate from passing SOPA and PIPA, two bills intending to deal with privacy, but would instead, grant incredible power to corporations to not only sue, but completely remove sites from the web for what they decide is copyright infringement. For…
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Oh, How We Need The Dream
A year and a half ago, I wrote a post about “the dream speech” by Martin Luther King, Jr. In it, I wrote the following: …I will share how I, living in the country transformed by this moment, still respond to Dr. King’s words. When Dr. King says, toward the opening of the famous “I…
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TN Congressman Would Violently Attack Transgendered Person For Using Bathroom
In one of the sickest things I’ve read in a while, Tennessee congressperson Richard Floyd says he would “just try to stomp a mudhole in him and then stomp him dry” if a transgendered individual used a bathroom with his wife or daughter. That is why he is sponsoring a bill that would fine transgendered…
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I’m a Barnes & Noble Man
Here’s one of the reasons I have a Nook. Because it is from Barnes & Noble and not Amazon.
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Ranting Grammarians
I really like Lynne Truss. Her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves is one of my favorite books ever. I’d like to think that would be so even if I hadn’t majored in English. The book itself is one big rant on behalf of better grammar. She is militant, persuasive, and funny. And that seems to…
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Good Enough Isn’t
My wife and I don’t watch home improvement shows that often, but occasionally, we’ll have HGTV on for most the afternoon, forgetting that it isn’t really our cup of tea. I got sucked into a couple of episodes of a show about flipping houses. Again, not my thing, but at the time it was strangely…