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Go Team!

Went to a University of Oklahoma football game yesterday. Unlike most of the folks there, I actually graduated from the school. These days, however, I only go to a game when a friend has a surplus ticket. There are a great many intelligent people who see football as a stupid, mindless, pointless endeavor (that's definitely true for many members of the school's faculty)....
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Obligations

Some people spend their whole lives trying to avoid them. I've never been afraid of obligations per-se, but I have been very cautious (perhaps too cautious) about avoiding obligations that could prove to be disastrous. What I've come to realize over time is how much I need them in order for my life to make sense. It was never a serious issue before, because...
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I seem to be unable to conjure up anything remotely interesting to say this morning. I am in the (hopefully) latter stages of getting over a cold, so there's that excuse. Usually I can find some sort of discussion topic just by looking at the day's news, but at the moment I'm coming up empty.

There is a long list if stuff I need to...
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Attack of the Giant Killer Squid

Climate dynamics can be a very tricky thing to grasp. We're having a cool summer in Oklahoma thus far - must mean global warming is a bunch of hooey, right? The thing is, it's the global AVERAGE temperature that's rising. That doesn't mean that nobody ever sees cooler than normal weather anymore. In fact, because of the impact global...
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That Old Time Religion

My biggest problem with religion is that people use it as an excuse to stop thinking for themselves, and the consequences of that can be disastrous. Religious leaders are HUMAN BEINGS - pretending they have God-like qualities enormously magnifies their power to do evil if they so choose.

The leaders of the Los Angeles diocese of the Catholic Church did everything...
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Reposting this in slightly edited form from my myspace blog...

I've had this movie Grey Gardens in my DVD queue for a really long time - I think they may only have the one copy! But it finally arrived the other day, I watched it last night and I have to say that it's deserving of the lavish praise it's received and the cult status...
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I hate to make my first blog entry here a negative one, but I feel compelled to have my say on this issue of the "Shitbag Misogynist Plans to Exploit SuicideGirls".

I'm not a big fan of knee-jerk reactions. They tend to be totally wrong way too often. But when it comes to the issue of 'torture porn", it's very difficult for me to imagine...
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