tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73772462012-02-16T12:03:49.663-05:00The status quo can be a benign sort of thing, comforting and gentle. But...as an accepted state of mind rather than a description of the temporarily true, it becomes more sinister. I remain confident that complacency and naivete have antidotes.D.E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14387402130228485182noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7377246.post-1100485520971991732004-11-14T21:17:00.000-05:002004-11-14T21:31:52.616-05:00

I only wish I had written this! --------------------------------------------------- Written by a woman in Cleveland the morning after the U.S. presidential election-- It would be difficult to fully communicate my disappointment in a simple email. On the other hand, slipping out into the hall and drowning myself in the mop bucket would mean that someone else would have to feed my dog. Kerry has

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This is a paragraph lifted verbatim (at least I owned up to it... hope she won't sue me) from an Ellen Goodman column. I use it for my own purposes, completely different from hers. ----------------------------------------------------- "Are we safer? At the end of her convention speech Laura Bush talked about a time when schoolchildren were told to "duck and cover" under their desks in case of

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Certain people achieve iconic stature, despite the fact that most people don't know much about them. If you want to bash conservatism, disparage Rush Limbaugh. Want to do the same to liberalism? Take a swing at Ted Kennedy.This is shorthand for true discourse. The vast majority of those who use this shorthand can't defend their statements with specific examples of a person's actual statements or

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Bible, Koran, Torah, whatever…. The Word of God? I don't think so. So many people think they know the one and only Truth in the universe. Even though there are so many different beliefs, each holds fast to their own, knowing in their hearts that all those other poor people, the unfortunate fools, are lost because they don't see the same Truth. All the stories told, describing events and

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Let’s see… life is sacred, because life is created by God and God is not to be interfered with by mere mortals; every life is as important as every other in the eyes of God….How do people who profess that belief sanction killing another person? Oh, it’s OK - and even a moral duty - to kill if the person killed doesn’t view the world in the same way?The killer gets a pass from the higher authority

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A Tale of Organizational WoeEver watched a school of small, darting fish? Or clouds of bison lumbering like small island nations cut free from the ocean floor in wandering traverses of unconstrained spaces? What you’ve got is a lot of movement without much consequence. Such is the organizational cluster*.When you go full bore into the bowels of stupidity alone you get to bend an elbow and laugh

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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS should not be displayed on publicly funded property. They are unique to the Judeo-Christian belief system, and their explicit promotion by our government is directly contrary to the core principles of that government. Some argue our Founders were Judeo-Christian people, and since our nation was founded on their beliefs the display of the Ten Commandments in publicly funded

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