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  • Pastor Withington brought up an amazing point today. History textbooks tell history as a series of mass movements (which is why they're so boring.) The Bible tells history as the story of individuals. The very names of t…

  • I'd never heard of this tradition till today when my grandmother enlightened me. Is it not hysterical? There is a tradition, said to go back to Saint Patrick and Saint Bridget in 5th Century Ireland, whereby women coul…

  • Everything has everything to do with everything else. ~ Dr. Tate (On the princes in Sidney's Arcadia) Pyrocles and Musidorus are sharp guys. They'd be on the full-ride presidential scholarship whatevers if they were goi…

  • Will you kill me if I say I was disappointed in Les Mis? A 1000 page novel is difficult to adapt to the stage unless you steadfastly stick to essentials. I don't think the scriptwriter(s) did that. They tried to cram too…

  • It's easier to talk when you have absolutely nothing to say than when you do have something to say. I've been staring at this blank white box until my eyes are going funny. I'm wishing I could be at evening service at my…

  • I didn't have my calculator with me during lab this evening, and we were working a problem involving trignometric functions. So I turned around and requested, exquisitely polite, of the three people at the other table, "…

  • In response to a conversation lastnight I'm meditating a defense of frivolity. Wouldn't that be a great paper topic?

  • Have you ever noticed how saccharine blogs, especially girls' blogs, usually are? . . . Kent's comment deserves to be part of the post: Well, if girls' blogs are that, boys' are usually something like: "Life stinks. I …

  • . . . I just had to copy this here, it's too great not to. I wish I could work in "two" in there somewhere and pull off what Eddie did in the title. But hang on - I think I did work it in there after all. Just say "sim…

  • Greetings, good friends! I haven't given up on this blog, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding. But my life is rather like a single long story, and it's hard to tell you about simply one event or one day, because…

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