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Saturday, October 30th, 2004

National Geographic Supports the Troops

So why doesn’t the Pentagon?
(I know, I’m supposed to be finishing my novel rewrite this weekend, but I had to post this.)
I just got my November 2004 National Geographic (which, by the way, has an excellent series of articles on the different sciences affected by Darwin’s Theory of Evolution), and found this picture in the [...]

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Thursday, October 28th, 2004

A Chilling Story

My last post I talked about the anonymous note we got (pdf file, 505K) that contained a story about a father berating his child in an attempt to explain the war in Iraq. The note calls it “a chilling story.” And it is chilling–chilling in its horribleness. (Horribiltude? Horribility?)
Here’s why I call this a [...]

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Tuesday, October 19th, 2004

Supporting the Troops

A few weeks back, I saw a photo someone posted on the Internet with the comment: “The look on this soldier’s face says it all.”
The photograph was of an American soldier, probably in his 40s, sitting cross-legged in the dirt. In his arms, he held an Iraqi boy, about 5-6 years old; the boy [...]

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Monday, October 18th, 2004

Another Post for Single-issue Voters

There, but for the grace of God, go we.
A tired-looking young woman opened the door four inches and peered over the chain. “Can I help you?”
Lee gave her a brief looking over. Her face was white and drawn, her eyes swollen, as if she’d been crying. Lots of them [...]

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Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

Open Letter to Single-Issue Voters

There’s a guy in my office is a single-issue voter. He is morally opposed to abortion, and he will vote for George Bush. There is nothing that Bush can do that is so wrong that this guy would not vote for him. He simply shrugs off any political arguments around the office. He is an [...]

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Friday, October 8th, 2004

Prayer for a Fair Election

As our national election approaches and the rhetoric intensifies,
anger and fear threaten to override wisdom and civility: there
are already accusations of fraud in Arizona, Ohio, and Florida,
and reports of vandalism of campaign headquarters are increasing.
While we work for our candidates, let us please also pray that
partisan enthusiasm doesn’t devolve into fraud or [...]

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Thursday, October 7th, 2004

Iraq and 9-11

For the past week, we’ve had a US troops casualty count in the front window of the house. Surprisingly, we’ve not gotten egged, t-p’d, or brick-through-the-windowed. We did have one woman complain to our next door neighbor that she thought we should take the casualty count down, because 3000 people died on Sept 11, 2001.
Now, [...]

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Thursday, October 7th, 2004

Vice Presidential Debate Summary

Old and busted:

New hotness:

(sizzle!)

(I’m no attaturk, but I get by.)

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Friday, October 1st, 2004

Dogbate Blogging

mmmmmmmmmmmm…I love the taste of Bush desperation!
(In five minutes, he’ll be begging for more.)

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