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January 2006
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bureaucracy, bylaws, rant, reform, uuism
“Do a bit of research first…”
01.24.06 | Permalink | 4 CommentsSteve Caldwell has advised me to “do a bit of research first before proposing reform ideas.” Well, Steve, I followed up on your most excellent suggestion and went to check out the UUA’s venerable bylaws. It seems they total over 25,000 words. There are 25 Articles encompassing almost 150 subsections and 15 Rules sections with […]
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bureaucracy, contest, hypercorporatism, reform, uua, uuism
Fixing UUism (but which one?)
01.23.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsLooking over the growing list of ideas to “fix UUism” over at ChaliceChick, it occurs to me that the vast majority are about what Roger Kuhrt calls the “hypercorporatism” of the national Association and its authorizing body, the annual General Assembly. Which is to say, they’re really not about fixing butts-in-the-pews Unitarian Universalism at all. […]
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contest, reform, uua, uuism
Chutney’s UU fixes
01.21.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsChaliceChick just started up a nifty little thing: a contest to come up with the best idea for “fixing” Unitarian Universalism. You can submit your paragraph idea to her, and before too long we’ll be voting on them. Here are my submissions: Hold GA every two years Actions of Immediate Witness Require a 66 percent […]
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blogging, chutney, irony, name-change
“Making Chutney?” (Feedback please)
01.19.06 | Permalink | 6 CommentsGentle readers, Sometime earlier this month My Irony reached its third (!) birthday. And last night I got an itch to make some radical changes, including no less than ditching makingchutney.com altogether. And I need to know what you think. What am I thinking about? I’m thinking, perhaps, about moving everything over to a new […]
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meme, rubber-johnny, short-film
Smell this. It’s awful.
01.18.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsSmell this. It’s awful. (I will not be liable for seizures.)
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bush, impeach, nsa, spying, terrorism, war-on-terror, wiretap
Bush was spying even before 9/11
01.14.06 | Permalink | 14 CommentsSeems pretty cut and dry: What had long been understood to be protocol in the event that the NSA spied on average Americans was that the agency would black out the identities of those individuals or immediately destroy the information. But according to people who worked at the NSA as encryption specialists during this time, […]
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