May 2012
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A Bucket list for Under-Achievers...
Just in case you thought everything I posted had to do with the TSA, The Christian Right, or Privacy….
A Bucket-list for underachievers
1. Swim with some people who swam with dolphins.
2. Visit the top of the Eiffel Tower replica in Las Vegas.
3. Run a marathon registration table.
4. Gather the entire extended family together for a reunion on Facebook.
5. Travel the entire...
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Sorry Bishops, No cookies for you. Or you. Or...
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has lobbed another volley in the “war on women.” Radical positions opposing most forms of contraception and a single-minded focus (at the expense of the Church’s much broader social justice mission) on abortion is apparently not enough. After recently criticizing the 80 percent of U.S. Catholic Nuns for apparently putting too much...
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Thank You Mr. President -- for doing the right...
President Obama has finally got off the fence, and come out of the White House closet in support of Gay Marriage. As the New York Times reports:
President Obamadeclared for the first time on Wednesday that he supportssame-sex marriage, putting the moral power of his presidency behind a social issue that continues to divide the country.
“At a certain point,” Mr. Obama said in an interview in...
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Disappointed, but not surprised.
North Carolina proves it is still in the dark ages.
That’s all I have. Thank you.
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“DAVID GREGORY: And you’re comfortable with same-sex marriage now?
VICE...”
– Is this a Biden goof? Or is it sounding out support of the Obama administration actually taking a stand?
ABC News
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dazzledbycarrie asked: If you take what some of the new testement says "with a grain of salt" then you have to take the whole bible that way since we are told it is the inspired word of God. If thats not true for some of it, then who is to say its not true for all of it. That being said I really appreciate what you said about seperating the OT and NT. People don't remember that we aren't under the OT...
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Musings on reading the bible, the whole bible...
Since September, I have been doing a “Life Journal Reading Plan” on my iPad - the entire bible in one year, actually the entire old testament once, and the new testament twice. Started it in September, and three months ago decided I wanted to speed it up, and do two days at a time. Finished it a few minutes ago. I can’t say it was always a spiritual exercise; there were...
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Eight Months into a Cop Show-Free Diet of TV...
I teach constitutional criminal procedure. Every day I talk with students about examples of how the desire to control crime results in an on-going tension with individual rights. About how police frequently minimize the rights of citizens; minimize due process in order to “catch the bad guys.” The classic “due process v. crime control” dilemma is one that plays out...
