THIS MATTERS.
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“HERE ARE YOUR PICTURES,” SAID the woman at the scanning shop. She handed me a package containing photos of my wife as a little girl — photos we can now send / have sent to others who didn’t expect them. “Thank you,” I said. “This put a lot of smiles on a lot of...
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THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN from history doom their children to redeem it. (And on that unironically hopeful note, Shabbat Shalom / have a nice weekend / go Red Sox!)
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1. READ A LETTER TO THE SF Chronicle’s editor this morning by a gentleman saying he voted for Prop 8, the anti-gay marriage initiative, because heterosexuals own the word “marriage.” 2. I’ve heard this argument before, and like the other arguments favoring less freedom for minorities it does not persuade me. In essence, this...
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HAVING MENTIONED THIS ON FACEBOOK yesterday in the wake of U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker’s 136-page ruling against Proposition 8, I’d better repeat it here: Neal Ross Attinson offers his services as secular ULC minister to marriage-seeking gay California couples My only balk is doing anything in Jesus’ name, since I’m both...
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“So the first thing is where. My first thought is the Heart of Green.” “Off to the Right?” “No, before that and down hill. At the base of the Stairstream.” “Oh. Under that cliffy flat place that leads to Blasted Heath, over the cliffs.” “Yes, where Keith started cursing out the valley in neo-Sumerian.”...
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FROM THE “THANK G?D I Lived Long Enough To See T*H*I*S” file: While life isn’t the only explanation for the unexpected acetylene/hydrogen findings, it is by far the coolest. (ObJewGeek: Bless the One who makes the makings of creation.) . Astronomy Now: Something strange is happening on Titan. . Science Friday: Titan’s Chemistry and...
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