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“Due to the volatile state of the world and out of sensitivity and respect to the armed forces, who I support and pray for, I do not want to risk offending anyone who might misinterpret the meaning of this video.” So said Madonna when she pulled the US release of her newest video, “American LIfe.” […]
New blogger Jim Moore wonders if the worldwide protest movement of the last five or so years might be the next superpower. Sound silly? Then how about Kyoto, Seattle, Turin, Davos, and the International Criminal Court? Who is the second superpower? Jim had this to say: Second superpower people identify themselves as citizens of the […]
Tweaking just gives me a big case of the deep fried happy. Lots of new categories for my weblog links. Enjoy.
Amongst today’s happenings: (1) The mayor cancelled out of her part in a panel discussion I had planned around her. It’s tomorrow night, and I’d first made contact with her about it most of two months ago. (2) My mother had surgery to fix a little boo-boo the obgyn did–twenty-nine years ago when she gave […]
And so it begins. Some folks commented in my ‘weblog manifesto’ reponse post that it would be swell if there was a blogring for–as The Happy Tutor put it–the “poststructuralist nonconforming postmodernist recovering philosopher web polis.” In the words of one nonconforming philosopher, ask and you shall receive. Thus, from the depths of the boundless […]
Monday or Tuesday this week I was forwarded an email written to my SO from a mutual acquaintance (and, for me, a former almost-colleague). We’d each gotten to know him at different points in our church camp life cycle, and our paths have had a way of looping back to each other through other people […]