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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Everybody Hates Jews

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Honestly by Bari Weiss, a new podcast  One of my favorite new podcasts is Honestly  by Bari Weiss.  She was a columnist at the New York Time...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Hunting Magic Eels and the Search for Spiritual Reality

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Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age by Richard Beck  In one of my book groups, the one where we read and discu...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

My Top 61 Books -- Giving me delight is all they have in common.

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  As a member of several book groups, I occasionally see a list of the top 10, 25, 50, 100 books of all time or some time or recent time.  O...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Veteran of Iraq, Afghanistan to Retire on September 11

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  Master Sgt.Pamela Bleuel (left) in Afghanistan In July 2009 I was pushing my bike toward a gap in the blast wall on Camp Adder, Iraq.  ...
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Sunday, September 5, 2021

Fascists and Fundamentalists Don't Care if You (or your mother) Die

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  Anti-vaxx, anti-mask Republicans don't care who dies Fascism has no ideology.  It is not a coherent system of beliefs.  Fascists: --Lo...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

"Make a Buddy" Shitter

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  The times when I lived and worked in close quarters large groups of men--the Army and Teamsters loading docks.  One lament common to both ...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Every Day, All Day Humiliation at Auschwitz

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  Auschwitz-Birkenau latrine On my return visit Auschwitz in July of this year, I saw things I missed or forgot I saw on my first visit in 2...