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The Last Bigotry?
In today’s Huffington Post, there’s an article about a speech by Bill Clinton with this quote: The country has made tremendous progress in shedding various forms of bigotry, Clinton said. “We have just one bigotry left. We don’t want to be around anyone who disagrees with us.” Seriously? Ok. I’ll admit that we have developed…
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If You Cheat, No One Wins…
“Your Cheatin’ Heart Will Tell On You” — Hank Williams As the election draws to a close, the parties are already hedging their bets with claims of voter intimidation, voter fraud, reminders of Florida during the 2000 election, Black Panthers guarding polls (Hi, Murph!), voter suppression (Hi, liberals!) and so on and so on. Who…
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A Reminder: Relationships Break
I write this from my therapy perspective, with no particular person or couple in mind, but I want to point out to anyone reading that if you mess up enough times in your relationship with anybody important to you, at some point the relationship breaks. While it’s true that a good-to-start-with relationship can be fixed…
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Different Questions — Faith and Politics
Especially for Murph and Marilyn and Bob and Carrol… [This is a sermon I gave at Plantsville Congregational Church, UCC, Plantsville, CT July 27, 2012. I am particularly proud of it, because it solves some questions I wrestle with frequently her in blog-land.] First, let me start off this morning by saying “Thank you” to…
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On Learning From Psychopaths
This morning, in Colorado, a man opened fire on a crowd of people after putting a gas canister in the theater. I, and probably everyone in the legitimate media (“professional” media?) will want to make something out of it. We will try to learn a lesson from it, make meaning of it, as human beings…
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What’s Wrong With The Truth?
It’s one of those screaming days in my head. I’m reading the Huffington Post online today and the news seems to indicate that Ann Romney “Loves the fact that there are single, working mothers”. She doesn’t. What she said, if you read it or listen to the clip is: “I love all kinds of people.…
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