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… twenty-nine years ago, Skylab–the US’s first space station–began its own crash course across the Australian desert. more ›
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Welcome to Amerika, where everything is so easy … So easy. So easy for a democracy to vote itself out of existence. So easy for self-righteousness to point toward terror. So easy for a government to misuse its powers and… more ›
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When you’ve been in school for as long as I have, you reach a certain point—especially after a few years of teaching—when you realize that the majority of your own teachers were pure shit and should never have been allowed… more ›
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When Stalin was in power, the preferred method for getting rid of him was the biological solution: someday, no matter how far in the future, the bastard would have to drop dead. Today, all thinking and feeling human beings can… more ›
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So, nine years. This blog began while I was living in Japan as a way of keeping in touch with friends and family around the globe. It was originally called “PolMach”—short for “political machine”—because I also used it to keep… more ›
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It was announced earlier today that beginning this year, St*rbucks is going to close 600 stores. All of them in North Dallas. The remaining 600 stores will simply double in size to accommodate those poor lost souls who now must… more ›
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Very rarely do I ever get caught up in an hour-long drama. Broadcast television, PBS excluded, typically sucks too much for me to tune in to more than the mindless thirty-minute comedy a couple of nights per week. I readily… more ›
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Procopius said is best: So the church has become a spectacle of marvelous beauty, overwhelming to those who see it, but to those who know it by hearsay altogether incredible. For it soars to a height to match the sky,… more ›
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Dear Homophobic, Right-Wing Assholes: Your marriage was already a mockery. Don’t blame me. Love,Frank more ›