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- When Reason Does Not Help
- January 6, 1992When I returned from Auburndale, Christmas night, Barbara, whose home is only one removed from mine, brought over a plate of cookies and fruit cake. Yesterday morning, Barbara was fo...
Posted on The Sermons and Musings of Carl J. Westman, D.D. (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Narrative crafts?
- A narrative is a story that is created in a constructive format (as a work of writing, speech, poetry, prose, pictures, song, motion pictures, video games, theater or dance) that describes a sequen...
Posted on Wisdom of the Hands (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Are We Afraid of Religion? or, What Is At Our Core?
- Those of you who are on the GA-listserv will know that there has started to be a real conversation about the staff re-organization that’s going on at 25 (and the closing of the Washington office), ...
Posted on East Of Midnight (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Jonathan M. Metzl: The Language of Addiction in the Bombast of the Right or Dismissed them on psychiatric grounds redux
- Like potholes in springtime, the Democrat's agenda stalls and they lay Conservatives on a coach: Jonathan M. Metzl: The Language of Addiction in the Bombast of the Right. Recall my post Dismissed ...
Posted on Pfarrer Streccius (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Jonathan M. Metzl: The Language of Addiction in the Bombast of the Right
- A psychiatrist's analysis of the rhetoric of the right: how transference, displacement, and defense mechanisms manifest themselves in Limbaugh and Beck's latest attacks.
Posted on Beacon Broadside (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Move your money!
- James Robert Lay left a comment on the blog today on the post "Is The American Economy Moral?"Here is his video, which is great, about using credit unions.
Posted on UU A Way Of Life (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Paganism! Paganism! Paganism!
- It’s time for the Pagan hysteria watch, where we spotlight some stories and editorials that get a wee bit over-excited in their rhetoric. Let’s start with an obvious source, conservatives defining ...
Posted on The Wild Hunt (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Honoring the WASPs
- I was driving into church this morning when I heard the most fascinating, compelling and lovely story about the WASPs during the Second World war, women who flew military aircraft in a variety of c...
Posted on Monkey Mind (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Today’s Almanac—March 9, 2010—Part 2
- How could I forget it’s Two-fer-Tuesday! On March 9, 1897 the Cleveland Spiders of the National League signed a full blooded Penobscot, Louis Sockalexis to the team roster. Almost immediately sp...
Posted on "Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout" (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Stewart skewers ChatRoulette reporters
- The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'Tech-Talch - Chatroulettewww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Refo...
Posted on DairyStateDad (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - John Ruskin Clark, D.D. , What's Wrong with Marcuse's One Dimensional Man?
- An interesting sermon on Marcuse (Marcuse's book published by Beacon Press too) delivered in Oct of 1968. Marcuse the father of the new left and 1968 the marker year (for me) when Liberalism fell ...
Posted on Pfarrer Streccius (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Intrinsic Motivation: Ideas worth Spreading
- It's science project week around here, frankly- one of my least favorite times of the academic year.My kid hates it because some outside source tells him he has to do it, and for some reason my wor...
Posted on Unmitigated Bliss (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Stopping Violence in Bosnia: 1995 Resolution of Immediate of Witness
- Worth recalling, WHEREAS the civil wars in the Balkans have created great atrocities against civilians and particularly women, we condemn these internationally unlawful acts and the warfare between...
Posted on Pfarrer Streccius (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Standing on the side of the Unemployed
- As I prepare to make my pledge calls, it's curious UUA's saying little about unemployment. (Correct me if wrong but here's what's on the UUA Social Justice site.) I have a feeling a high unemploy...
Posted on Pfarrer Streccius (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - MoveOn.org Get Out
- I am really angry. Steam boiling mad, actually. Where does this rage stem from? MoveOn.org. What?! Yep. MoveOn.org. It all started innocently enough. They sent me an email months ago asking if I wo...
Posted on MoxieLife (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Upholding the liberal Christian tradition
- Part of the object of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches is "upholding the liberal Christian tradition". I once commented that we should also support all liberal religion...
Posted on Unitarian Communications (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Today’s Almanac March 9, 2010
- On March 9, in a nearly forgotten piece of legislation, Congress passed the Land Act of 1820 opening the Old Northwest Territory and Missouri to an avalanche of new settlement. Population growth i...
Posted on "Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout" (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - A Note that I Am Shamelessly Resuming a Bad Blogging Habit
- Dear Community,In the crunch to finish my book (Histories and Mysteries of First UU Burlington, VT), I am doing almost no reading of your blogs. Please don't feel bad -- I've cut out most of my ne...
Posted on PolityWonk (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Introduction to Musings III
- December 1992Once again I am bold enough to send you greetings of the Season with a 55 page “Card.” “I call ’em as I see ’em,” as a baseball umpire once said.May your YULE and New Year 1993 be bles...
Posted on The Sermons and Musings of Carl J. Westman, D.D. (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010 - Season of Nonviolence Daily Reflection—Day 39, March 9, 2010—Dialogue
- Marian Williamson describes a healthy society as one in which, “those who disagree can do so with honor and respect for other people’s opinions, and an appreciation for our shared humanity.” In th...
Posted on "Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout" (Site / Info) on Tuesday March 9, 2010
