Friday, September 26, 2025

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  Woodie Guthrie (1912-1967), composer of "This Land Is Your Land."  Anti-fascist. 
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

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  "With worship music, the Christian singers sought to whitewash Kirk and make his political views equivalent to what it means to foll...

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      "The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way ...
Monday, September 22, 2025

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 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persec...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

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  We have achieved Idiocracy.

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One of my guilty pleasures is documentaries about musicians/bands. The new documentary about the Lilith Fair is one of the best I've se...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

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  Ahem...

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"We must recognize that violent instability is baked into any system where one side has power and rights and the other has none." ...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

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  Seeing two-dimensionally in a three-dimensional world  "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in you...
Friday, September 12, 2025

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"I am not going to sugarcoat it: I have nothing but contempt for Charlie Kirk’s politics. He made a career out of poisoning young min...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."  -- Isaac Asimov 
Tuesday, September 09, 2025

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Omer Bartov is an Israeli-American historian and a leading authority on The Holocaust and genocide. He was born in Israel, raised in a Zion...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

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  Back in the 1980's, when my wife and I were Charismatic Evangelical Christians, there was an idea circulating around about seven spher...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

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Monday, August 04, 2025

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 A poem for my grandson on the occasion of his birth... I hope you have a long and easy road I hope you don't bear too heavy a load Stru...
Sunday, August 03, 2025

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 Any day now I'm expecting to hear "Christian" right-wing pundits begin making the claim that sexually exploiting teenaged gir...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

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 A young Palestinian girl in Gaza begs for food. (Source: Associated Press)
Sunday, July 20, 2025

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James Talarico is one of the bright lights of Texas state politics.    
Saturday, July 19, 2025

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Monday, July 14, 2025

Only Then Will Your House Be Blessed - Harry Manx

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I love this song so much...    
Monday, July 07, 2025

The Fallacy of Thoughts and Prayers

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For the last three years I've been living in central Texas, near Austin.  My wife and I moved here to be close to family.  There are thi...
Friday, July 04, 2025

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  A poem:  (Don't Call It) Genocide Take their land Take their lives Imprison them without trials Wall them in to a few square miles But...
Monday, January 13, 2025

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I deleted my Twitter account back when Elon Musk took it over and rebranded it as "X".  Last week, after Mark Zuckerberg announced...
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Thursday, November 28, 2024

Trumpism Is A Cult

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    I'm no authority on politics, just a guy with some opinions. So here's a not-particularly-groundbreaking opinion:   The United ...
Friday, November 15, 2024

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I've known several transgender people in the course of my life. You quite possibly have too, and may not even know it. They're not...
Saturday, June 01, 2024

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  Yes, Donald Trump is despicable, and has been that way for a long, long time. But he's just a man. What really concerns me is the en...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

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  I've been watching and reading about the recent McCarthyesque hearings on Capitol Hill regarding antisemitism on college campuses. Lo...
Monday, May 27, 2024

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  The most evil and tragic of human enterprises is war. Memorial Day should be a day of somber reflection on the terrible (and almost always...
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

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  When I was a conservative evangelical Christian, I went along with the party line (on any number of issues) because I was constantly being...
Monday, June 13, 2022

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  Here in the U.S., whenever a school shooting occurs, the old canard will be trotted out by conservative Christians that the underlying rea...