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Friday, October 22, 2010

What I'm Reading: The Passage

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The Passage by Justin Cronin My rating: 3 of 5 stars I don't read a lot of bestsellers anymore. I had to, when I was a book secti...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

A Refusal to Apologize

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Dan Savage responds to a "Christian":   Being told that they're sinful and that their love offends God, and being told that ...
Friday, October 1, 2010

It Gets Better

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Three Score and Ten

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Back when I was in my fifties, a not-that-much-younger person once described me as "spry." I did not take kindly to the descriptio...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Thoughts While Shaving

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Is there a more 21st-century-American name than Travis Ishikawa?
Monday, August 30, 2010

The Proverbs of Questianity

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"Who claims Truth, Truth abandons."   --Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
Monday, August 9, 2010

Keeping It Secular

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In a rather obtuse New York Times column today Ross Douthat argues that Judge Walker's ruling in favor of same-sex marriage amounts to ...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Bard Thou Never Wert

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The following review ran, a little shortened for space, in today's San Francisco Chronicle : CONTESTED WILL: Who Wrote Shakespeare? B...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Ain't That a Kick in the Head?

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Dear merciful goddess, the right wing hates soccer. "It doesn't matter how you try to sell it to us," yipped the Prom King ...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Things That Make Me Blow My Top

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Rand Paul on mountaintop removal : PAUL: I think whoever owns the property can do with the property as they wish, and if the coal company ...