If you’ve read my bio page all the way to the very end, you know I have an irrational fear of wasps. This sorta includes bees - mostly anything that can fly and sting. Bees, however, are often rotund and fuzzy. How can something rotund and fuzzy be menacing? Don’t get me wrong, I still […]

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You remember, I’m sure, that I got fed up with water flooding into my house every time we got a heavy rain. This was starting back in June, after the gullywasher on the 9th. We got a heavy downpour, about 2.5 inches in an hour, and all three bedrooms flooded. It was because of that […]

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The Incredibles was incredible. It was perfectly cast, the art was outstanding (same guy who directed The Iron Giant so of course I’m gonna like it), and they purposely tried to make the people look more cartoonish than has historically been the case with Pixar. The only complaint I’ve ever had with Pixar’s films is […]

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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, […]

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I was out raking leaves weekend before last when my across-the-street neighbor came over. He’s a man of few words. Nice guy, and if he chooses to say something it’s probably semi-important because otherwise he doesn’t talk much. Anyway, he opened the conversation with, “You’re wearing me out.” On account of the fact that I […]

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I’ve just started reading a book by Amin Maalouf called Samarkand. I chose it because it’s about Omar Khayyam. Imagine my surprise when, 12 pages in, I find this jewel:
“I am not one for whom faith is simply fear of judgment. How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel […]

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Tough Crowd on Comedy Central has been cancelled. It came as a shock actually, settling down to the final episode last night without any clue that it was on the skids. Personally, I had a love-hate relationship with the show. On the one hand, Colin and his guests behaved in exactly the same manner that […]

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Ari just sent me an amazing link: Not red or blue, but purple. One of the toughest things I’ve been dealing with over the last 24 hours is a deep sense of alienation. I mean, voting for Kerry in Texas and then looking at a map like this, even with it’s pinks, (actually, this map […]

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KUT was playing this yesterday when I left to get the kids:
In a many dark hour
I’ve been thinkin’ about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can’t think for you
You’ll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.
So now as I’m leavin’
I’m weary as Hell
The confusion I’m feelin’
Ain’t no tongue can tell
The words […]

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We’ve got to keep something in mind: this was not a landslide victory. As hard as it was for me to get to sleep last night knowing that we’re headed for four more years of lies and hatred and fear, I cannot let myself believe for a second that we are grossly outnumbered. We […]

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