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Thanksgiving 2014.
It’s a good thing to reflect on our past year and to consider the coming year, and the late autumn is a good time to do that. Something about this crisp, clear weather makes the celebration of our relationships and families feel natural and inevitable. Even a humble meal–which is what today will be, for various reasons–becomes elevated when prepared and eaten with mindfulness. Continue reading
Posted in Off-Topic
Tagged Happy Thanksgiving, History, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving day, vegetarian dinner
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Interlude: The White Man’s Flag.
I can’t stop myself from briefly stepping back from our regularly-scheduled posts to add my wholehearted support for the people who are facing police brutality and oppression in Ferguson. It dismays me that so little has changed from decades past. … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Off-Topic, The Games We Play
Tagged African-Americans, Black, Ferguson, ferguson missouri, Hate Speech, Houston, Racism, United States
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Stories That Seem Like Pranks But Aren’t.
It’s that time of year again when fake awesome news stories break and turn out to be just big hoaxes and haha funny stories, burying the equally strange but real stories that break at the same time. It’s like having … Continue reading
Posted in Hypocrisy, Off-Topic, Religion
Tagged Affordable Care Act, American Republican Party, April Fool's Day, Facebook, Hoax, Pat Robertson, Social media, Ted Cruz
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The Love Narrative.
Our journey into both love and that happy land of “books you really should have read by now and if not, then you need to get to it” continues today with The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle. You probably … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Off-Topic, The Games We Play
Tagged Books, Last Unicorn, Literature, Love, Love Week, Movies, Peter Beagle, Princess Bride, The Last Unicorn
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“I love you,” Buttercup said.
The movie version of The Princess Bride is very good. But if you ever get a chance to read the book, I heartily recommend it. After the first fitful beginnings of this false tale-within-a-tale, a sort of comic inverted King … Continue reading
I Have a Quick Question About Little House on the Prairie.
Y’all probably noticed a while ago that I adore the Bullshit! show. So I’m watching the one about breastfeeding right now and at the 8:30ish mark there’s a lawyer talking who compares kids seeing human breasts in the context of … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Off-Topic
Tagged Babies, breastfeed, Breastfeeding in public, Bullshit, human sexuality, Penn & Teller, Sexism, Women, Women's rights
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