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April 2007
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lessons
Lesson learned (and overheard)
04.15.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsWalking down the hallway at work, I overheard a teacher giving a preschooler some sage advice: Don’t lick other people on the face because a lot of people don’t like that. Too true.
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Everyone else is doing it
04.10.07 | Permalink | 5 CommentsI took the plunge. I gave in to peer pressure. And I joined. MySpace. LinkedIn. Facebook. I’m so, so ashamed.
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Are our individual causes relevant?
04.08.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsSteveCaldwell’s post on the Wikipedia article on UUism—“Who speaks for UUism on the web?”—got me thinking. So I went and checked out the Wikipedia article. In the section on politics, I found these two sentences: Individual Unitarian Universalists are involved in opposing the death penalty, supporting environmental protection, peace, feminism, gun control, free speech, safe […]
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methodist-rabbi
The Methodist rabbi?
04.05.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on The Methodist rabbi?Don’t know what to make of this. A rabbi working for a Christian church, as a rabbi? The folks at Get Religion aren’t the only ones wondering if he’s more Christian than Jewish. I’m smelling a faint whiff of token diversity-ism too.
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An autistic woman fires back at Oprah
Beautiful video a woman made of herself responding to Oprah and “Autism Speaks.”
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Playing at being real?
04.03.07 | Permalink | 7 CommentsSo here I was, set to write a brilliant post about Empire and the isolation of the self in the Axial Age, when Barbara Ehrenreich goes and writes a long article saying that our modern melancholy began in the sixteenth century, coinciding with the advent of modern theater and the disappearance of carnival. Got that? […]
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