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I’m Po’, But I’m Proud 27 Aug 2013 | 10:11 am
When I was a child, there was a restaurant in rural central Florida called Po Folks that served cheap Southern cooking. Given the poverty of my childhood, of which it may be said that country and blue...
That Which Has Not Been Seen Does Not Have To Be Unseen 27 Aug 2013 | 10:02 am
I did not see the Video Music Awards last night, and as is common at this event, there was some shocking stunt, which not terribly surprisingly involved Miley Cyrus. The mother of the other singer inv...
Home Sweet Home 26 Aug 2013 | 10:27 am
While driving to and from the camping event this weekend, I was not far from a place called Sweet Home, although I did not stop by that part of rural Oregon, as I’m not sure how sweet of a home it wou...
So Many Reasons Why 26 Aug 2013 | 10:03 am
One of the notable aspects of my personality is my desire to understand why life is the way it is. Whenever I see some precocious young lad of a few years of age (usually three or four or so), continu...
A Review Of The 2013 Oregon Men’s Weekend 26 Aug 2013 | 07:26 am
From shortly before the beginning of the Sabbath until this afternoon I have been camping with dozens (the max attendance we had was about 69 attendees on the Sabbath at the seminars and for Sabbath s...
Advance And Retreat 23 Aug 2013 | 10:03 am
In my local congregation there is a bit of an inside joke between the organizers of the annual women’s retreat and the organizers of the men’s weekend, which is coming up this weekend a little south o...
An Oddball Number Of Facets 23 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
Today while on my way home from work stuck in the normal rush hour traffic (albeit an hour earlier than usual), I heard an odd commercial that struck me as both very strange and also very revealing. A...
Prisoner Of Chillon 22 Aug 2013 | 10:03 am
In 2004, I went to the feast in France, and as part of the tours that year, we went to a small town that I had not known very well beforehand called Montreux. Among the highlights, or lowlights, of th...
Kurds And Whey 22 Aug 2013 | 10:02 am
One of the more troublesome “what if” questions of contemporary world history is whether the Kurds would have their own nation-state if they were somehow more unified. Somehow, in the falling apart of...
Borrowed Feathers 21 Aug 2013 | 10:15 am
The question of originality and its importance in our respect for and acclaim of individuals can be a considerably dicey matter. This morning, as I was driving to work, the radio station I was listeni...
