Category: Everyday Stories
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Mid 20th century Kansans who believed in Evolution
Here they are. Mid 20th century Kansans in Lawrence, believers in evolution. I’m the one with the recessive genes. (For some reason, my son has been begging to see pics of me when I was a baby. So I unearthed the few that I have.)
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Ask Sally, Dick or Jane the value of their privacy and what personal boundaries mean
Talkleft posts a story on inmates, who were stripped and left naked, some for days, winning a lawsuit against the Saginaw County Jail in Michigan. One was 36 year-old Linda Rose who, arrested for drunk driving, was stripped and left to crouch before a surveillance camera for several hours in a jail cell. The lawsuit…
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Patriot Act Expansion Secret Vote
Senate Intelligence Committee Considers Patriot Act Expansion Bill in Secret; ACLU Calls for Open and Public Dialogue
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Rumsfeld wants to deal with "universal access and no inhibitions, e-mail, cell phones, digital cameras wielded by anyone and everyone"
So there it is. Rumsfeld blithers madly over the agility and speed of current news communication and its ideological danger to U.S. interests.
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Behind the scenes with Paris Hilton
Yeah, yeah. Whatever. I had to take a tad bit of a fun break. If you haven’t already seen it, the Paris Hilton hamburger commercial is here. I was thinking these people had to be spoofing themselves with the ad until I watched their “Behind the Scenes with Paris” clip (no relation to the above).…
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If it wants elucidation…
This blog gets very little traffic. Monday it got over 600 hits, which is something like 575 more than it normally gets. They were almost all from the Fox News search engine. They were all looking for more news on the Louis Lamonica Hosanna Church story. Seems Fox had just posted the news and seems…
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What are your plans for the future?
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The surveillance Saddam
This week The Sun and The New York Post, both owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., ran “leaked” photos of Saddam in his briefs.
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Some possible things to do when one’s wondering what’s to be done, a question, and a general mess of a post
Am going from here to there to over there in this post. No single topic. Arvin Hill is back in the saddle posting and networking. Killing the Machine sends to Skookum’s Models of engagement in which is on possible models of active resistance to The Powers That Be. Arvin’s Two things I enjoyed this week…
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I love Paris in the spring time
Yes, I was back watching C-Span 2 on Thursday. Not every tortured minute but a lot of it.
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That’s some consensual suspension of disbelief
Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana is hitting the news big time. For a couple of reasons. First off, the prayer debate. To pray or not to pray in the schools. Nola.com has he story on how some Tangiphoa teachers and administrators are flouting the prayer ban. 4th grade teacher has prayer in class, and has also Bible…
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What’s the harm of a little common courtesy
Every time I hear, “Give nominees the courtesy of a vote”, I also hear this resounding response from sofas throughout Xtian conservative America of people agreeing it’s right to at least give the nominees that courtesy, a little common courtesy, everyone deserves a little common courtesy. That’s all this is about, showing a little common…