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Simple Beauty
Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of standing on the side of a field flanked by marshland and farmland, as groups of migrating sandhill cranes flew in from the north, east, and west. Each fall, over 10,000 cranes visit the area around Medaryville, I...
Jesus Christ quits Christianity after viewing Republican platform
(With today's GOP, I feel like this post - originally posted Sept. 2008 - never stops being topical.) For years, Jesus Christ had kept quiet while his “followers” had killed and committed horrendous acts of intolerance in his name. They were t...
I denounce “Liberal” Martin Eisenstadt and his new book!
Throughout my long and inglorious writing career, I have always held true to the concept that money, fame, and recognition was always secondary. Good work has always been its own reward. These words I have lived by. But no more. You see, in slightly...
Belated...
Sometimes I become so enmeshed in the daily dramas of life that I forget to recognize the important milestones of those I hold dear. In such cases of neglect, the sin is not selfishness--I care, I really do--but rather self-absorption. My life is lik...
Your (Canadian) Tax Dollars at Work or When Zombies Attack
If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation (sic) unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. This according to an article at the BBC Web site that reports on a scientific paper written by researchers...
Questions: The Regrets Edition (Part II)
Great answers to Part I of the regrets column. Here are my other 5 top regrets. 6) I regret being afraid of dying. In some ways, I feel my whole life's purpose is to finally accept (at least on a Zen-like level) the inevitability of my death. Instead...
Questions: The Regrets Edition (Part I)
In a post long ago, I talked about regrets and how I view them as a natural part of the examined life, something to be embraced, not feared. A person who claims he has no regrets is either a magnificent liar or an unreflective fool. You can learn a l...
Cronkite, Deconstruction, and Us
Walter Cronkite died tonight. He was 92. His signature moments are on a tape-loop tonight: the assassination of JFK, the moon landing that turns forty Monday, Nixon's resignation. While Cronkite thus affords a descriptive window to our past ...
