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Just Sayin’ Is All (Midnight Musings edition)
Republicans are incessantly ranting about things like morals, ethics, and family values. In other words, they just can’t stop whining about the things they don’t have. Priests and ministers are always...
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Digging Deeper: Mocking God
This election, there’s a movement around the country to use the Bible and prayer in the wrong way. It makes God a political partisan. It associates God with vengeance and hatred, substitutes a personal...
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A Profile of Flaws
Moral charges no longer have political meaning! Violate any of God’s Supreme 10 or men and women’s high ideal of public trust, or the simple statues of common law, and after taking the state plane...
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The Culture and Politics of the Fact-Free Paradox
I never knew so many bad things would happen if I asked for and got a raise on the job. First, I would be told by everybody from HR (human resources) to our highest politicians in the Congress that I...
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When Reason Stops Short
Unlike bullets and political rhetoric, reason often stops short. Like bullets and rhetoric, reason often puts forth a single-sided, unchallenged view. Thinking is no longer a safe zone: it is used for...
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The Creepy Things
The creepy things are starting to creep into the Republican campaigns; the things so ugly and wrong they shut us down and leave us dispirited. How can Democrats find a path to victory through...
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Polls
Polls, polls, everywhere a poll Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind Poll this, don’t poll that, can’t you read the poll? Polls. You can’t get away from them. Every day there’s a new...
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Passive Violence
Ever a fan of mandalas, the X/Y axis, delta functions (the rate of change per unit) and comparisons, descriptions, and culture (each generation’s locus of hope and meaning), I drift toward ideas and...
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How Putin Out Dealt Trump
In a world where the life being lived is always the “best” or the “worse,” it’s an easy choice: facts, evidence, and actions; ideas, explanations, and decisions direct our deliberations to the...
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