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Pride and Appreciation
I have a confession to make: I can be a bit naughty this time of year. I like to take the piss out of my Irish friends, but I hope they know it is all in good fun. Where I won’t make apologies,...
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Old Stories And Missed Opportunities
A few years back Marvel Comics created quite possibly the best crossover event of their entire run: Civil War. The premise was fairly simple. A disaster strikes in a suburban town as some of the...
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Living Vicariously and Being “That” Aunt
As I get older the chances of having children of my own are increasingly slim. Once upon a time that might have bothered me. Occasionally I still pine to have kids of my own but it happens with less...
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Killing Us With Kindness
OK folks, time to discuss memes again. I am seriously considering creating an entire feature dedicated to deconstructing memes, at least the political ones. I’d like to say that it was only right-wing,...
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All Our Goodwill is Going to the Dogs (Literally)
I suppose it is appropriate after writing about proper etiquette among our four-legged fellow travelers that I should revisit our attitudes about them in a different light today. Sometimes I wonder if...
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Whose Side Are They On Anyway?
Today we are both beneficiaries and victims of an information glut. This amazing tool, the internet, and all the tools we use to connect to it, allow us to find information with a few keystrokes that...
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We Are All Diogenes
Social Network websites are a little older than Facebook. Indeed they are almost two decades old now, though those earliest services were very basic in what they offered. As they have evolved, as our...
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The Ump’s A Hoser
It pains me to say this, because I still believe that honestly examined, thorough data gathering is an important tool in discovery, but reading your average Twitter of Facebook feed reminds me of the...
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The Deflation In Gender
The modern women’s movement is over forty years old. We’ve had twenty plus years of “no means no.” We’ve had a few years now of affirmative consent and “yes means yes.” We are coming up on the second...
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Adding Insult to Inquiry
Many folks who know me have accused me of being a smug know it all. The accusation is not entirely without merit however it is drastically overstated. They decide they do not like what I have to say,...
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Revolutionary Chic
Our society has many flaws. The idea of justice has been turned into a joke by people who enjoy the protection of those they laugh at. There is so very much work to do that sometimes it seems an...
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The Primal Urge(s)
It is hard to come up with words when horror rears its ugly head. I find myself envious of those who manage to do so both prolifically and with grace in the face of terrible days like today. So many...
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A Day, and a Drug, Like Any Other
Today is 4/20, or 420, or whatever you want to call it. I never did research the significance of the number, and frankly it is irrelevant. To many pot enthusiasts around America, and even around the...
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Vulgarity Is In The Eye of The Beholder, and The Beholder is Blind
So this weekend the FCC loosened its rules about profanity when Boston Red Sox star David “Big Papi” Ortiz gave an impassioned speech honoring the strength of the city that had just gone through so...
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A Life of Peace
We rarely are allowed to remember those who come to us to teach peace. As children we are taught of all the generals and warlords throughout history. You leave high school knowing Hannibal, the...
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Avoiding The Rabbit Hole
I would like to thank Amanda Marcotte for inspiring this post with her wonderful article about misogynists in the Atheist community. More importantly I want to thank her for her handling of people like...
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This Memorial Day Let’s Remember It All
It is a curious thing. Other than perhaps Christmas I can think of no other holiday that brings out the desire to blog, not just for myself, but for others, like Memorial Day. It is a day charged...
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The Kids Are Alright
Forgive me for copping the title of this post from a movie I have yet to see (though I love Mark Ruffalo, so I very much have to see it.) It was the first thing that came to mind when I decided to...
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The Incredible Shrinking God
June is upon us once more, which means, among other things, that the Pride Parades have begun in earnest. Today my new hometown of Buffalo enjoyed theirs. It was a fun spectacle, and always great to...
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Those Funny Words On Our Coins
“Diversity is hard.” Sometimes a sentence can be painfully obvious and wonderfully insightful at the same time. Such is the case with those words, spoken with passion, and compassion, by the amazing...
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