Awareness

I don’t think Americans need to be any more “aware” of cancer. In fact, we’re the world’s leaders in finding cancer that wasn’t doing no harm to begin with, and carving it out of our bodies to convince ourselves that we can cut or burn or medicate our mortality away.

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Annotated Bibliography: Inevitable Crime, Gifts of the Mediocre, and Stepping up for Jesus

Since… there is a ‘law’ governing the amount of crime in a society, moral responsibility for crime must lie with society and not with the individual criminal.  “It is society that prepares the crime and … the guilty person is only the instrument who executes it,” is the rather dramatic way he expressed it.  People […]

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At the Movies

Today we’ll be reviewing the last three movies I saw.  Two of them are even being shown in theaters, which is pretty unusual. 1. “Up in the Air” is a “good” movie.  You get to look at George Clooney, first.  If we had to show an alien culture what a “man” looked like, George Clooney […]

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The Whistle

I’m going to take a couple of risks here: ranting about how other people should raise their children (bearing in mind that I have no children, to make it even juicier), and writing about a rerun on television.  Today Oprah’s show reran a feature on a 7-year-old girl who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.  This […]

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