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Vote for the Best Just Posts of 2009!

March 15, 2010 this i believe

First of all, an apology… . Now on to official business… Alejna over at Collecting Tokens and Holly at Cold Spaghetti host a monthly feature called “Just Posts for a Just World“: monthly roundtables of blog posts written on personal blogs that, in words of one of the founders, “speak to the same thing – [...]

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The strength of not giving a damn

January 29, 2010 this i believe

We have all been asked of this quiz question before: What Super Power do you wish you had? I still don’t know what my answer should be. Flying? Mind control? Teleporting? “The ability to eat as much as I want without gaining any weight”. Yeah. That’s what I am thinking right at this moment. You [...]

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Trouble Maker? You talking to me?

January 21, 2010 no manual for parenting

Sometimes I wonder whether the teachers talk about the parents amongst themselves. I would probably be known as “Trouble Maker”. My favorite moment was when I confronted approached the principal at the Thanksgiving Feast: “Could I safely assume that the headpieces the children are wearing are ‘turkeys’ and not ‘head dresses’?” I used the quotation [...]

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We are all in this

January 18, 2010 this i believe

Mr. Monk, my 7-year-going-on-50-old child, asked me last Friday at dinner, “Mom, is it true that you would not be here if Martin Luther King did not give THAT speech?” I was caught by surprise, I’ll be completely honest. Although I understand the impact Dr. King’s speech has had on the American history, culture and [...]

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I love you, Lily Coyle of Minneapolis

January 17, 2010 this i believe

By now everyone of us have heard of what Pat Robertson has to say about the earthquake that just about leveled Haiti. I cannot help it, here is the highlight of his point: “They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact [...]

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Idea of the Day: What to do with the holiday cards now that you are thinking about taking down the Xmas tree…*

January 2, 2010 this i believe

This is actually a re-post from last January. It deserves to be posted every year around the same time… Send them to St. Jude’s Hospital St. Jude’s RANCH and help the children earn some college money! I received this email about the Greeting Card recycling program at St. Jude’s.  Wish I have heard about it in the previous [...]

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WTF Wednesday: Fighting “I Guess I’m a Racist” with “I Guess I’m a Lazy Ass”!

December 16, 2009 imho is just a polite way to say I know you don't give a hoot what I think but I'm going to say it anyway

UPDATE (12-17-2009): I realized that my attempt at satire actually makes it even more confusing. My apology. I will lay it out straight: The “I’m a Racist” ad is ridiculous also because it predicted on the faulty assumption #1 HCR is mostly about the African Americans #2 Ergo I have been accused of being a [...]

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Know thyself. Be thyself.

December 7, 2009 this i believe

It is 2:03 am. I am all of a sudden wide awake. Note to self: Listening to PRI Selected Shorts podcasts while cleaning the house is a sure way that your mind will become overactive and that you will have trouble falling asleep. I will pay for this indulgence: lying down on my Therapy Couch [...]

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“We have nothing to fear from love and commitment”

December 3, 2009 this i believe

The State of New York voted down the gay marriage bill yesterday. By a vote of 38 to 24. There are 32 Democrats. Somehow I am not too surprised. Not because I am familiar with the NY political scene, but lately people have been letting me down. I am losing faith. (Don’t worry. This is supposed [...]

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Towards a Discussion of Religious Pluralism with a First Grader. Gingerly.

November 20, 2009 no manual for parenting

Scene 1 On our way home in the car, the 11 year-old lodged an official complaint against his younger brother for embarassing him in school: He talks about God too much. He said things like, “God created everything” in daily, random conversations, without prompting. On top of that, he also sometimes sports a British accent, [...]

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