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Protesting pity
09.04.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Protesting pityThe Muscular Dystrophy Association still hasn’t fired Jerry Lewis for saying things like, “You’re a cripple in the wheelchair and you don’t want pity? Stay in your house!†And it’s gearing up for yet another mawkish telethon.
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Friday Scribbler: Labor Day Edition
09.03.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Friday Scribbler: Labor Day EditionOkay, so I’m a little late. But here’s your linky goodness in time for your unlabor tomorrow. Cleave is looking for the worst church website. Damn, but after looking at them, I’m just not right. Little Moves is one of several folks linking to Keith Olbermann’s take down of Rumsfeld. Blogickal brings up animal sacrifice. […]
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Nonprofit fights poverty with poverty
09.01.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Nonprofit fights poverty with povertyPhoto caption: “Helping Hearts staffers and their new coffee-maker; recent fund-raising will pay for its repair.” Link.
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Gifted kids as hothouse plants
08.31.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Gifted kids as hothouse plants“One of the main problems with growing up that way is not being gifted but being called gifted and being grouped under the name. Any kind of frozen identity is problematic in general; it’s not helpful. Once you’re gifted you have to always be gifted and it’s hard to admit to the ignorance that it […]
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Tarantulas
One more Zarathustra passage, this time on Christianity and damn liberal hippies. This one always makes me think of that part of Lord of the Rings when Frodo is trapped in the cave by that spider:
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Blessed are the sleepy
Another Nietzsche passage, this time on ethics, complacency, and spiritual disciplines:
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