Recent Blog Posts
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Tea Party leaders v. O’Donnell the fire-breather
Last night I couldn’t get to sleep right away, and stayed up watching Lawrence O’Donnell eviscerate some Tea Party leaders on his MSNBC show “The Last Word.” I don’t know their names or those of the particular groups they represented, but that was one thing about which O’Donnell made a big issue– the fact that…
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Aquaria
When visiting a place that has a reportedly good aquarium, I can’t not go and check it out for myself. For someone born and raised in Kansas, I have a strange thing for deep water and its inhabitants. Going to visit the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta on a Sunday which also happens to be Halloween…
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In case of fire
Here’s an excerpt from the list of very detailed instructions about what to do in every kind of emergency posted on my door: Attention-drawing red ellipse added by me Most of these instructions make pretty good sense, but the “DO NOT JUMP!” in all-caps is a little boggling. As mentioned previously, I’m on the 20th…
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AAR 2010
Thousands of smiling, mild-mannered people with blue tote bags have descended on the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta. This is the 2010 American Academy of Religion conference. I’m posting from my room in that hotel, using the wireless internet that they made me pay for on top of the room rate. Why do expensive hotels…