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  • Xeno-sequel

    Xeno-sequel

    The new Alien sequel is out and I loved it.

  • DNC, night #2

    Michelle Obama. That’s all you need to review. She even eclipsed her hubby, it was that good: (Kamala Harris) understands that most of us will never be afforded the grace of failing forward. We will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth. If we bankrupt a business or choke in a crisis, we…

  • Reverend Senator

    Wow, the words of the reverend and US Senator, Raphael Warnock! I’m saying it now, he’s got the spirit of MLK and I hope he stays in politics. The man can preach. I’ve clipped some of his speech on day #1 from the Democratic National Convention. This is remarkable, soulful stuff. Covenant with America A…

  • Yellowstone trip

    Yellowstone trip

    This year, my family marked a big milestone: we camped inside Yellowstone National Park. It was fantastic. It was everything I’d hoped for. And it was also a big achievement. We’re not super adventurous campers; in fact we’re fully into the Glamping life. We have a travel trailer. 1A “travel trailer” is the insider term…

  • my work is

    If this is the beginning of the new, perfect Aquarian age, my work is to quiet my mind, open my heart and relieve suffering. Or if this is Armageddon, the end of the world, my work is to quiet my mind, open my heart and relieve suffering. Ram Dass

  • Supporting the podcast arts

    I have been listening to a movie review and pop culture podcast for years, called The Filmcast. It’s great and I highly recommend you give it a listen if you at all identify as a movie buff or film nerd. I’ve been listening for years now and embarrassed to say that I haven’t given (regularly)…

  • New look on life

    New look on life

    Wow, what a difference a week can make! In our new ever-accelerating political cycles, just 24 hours can change an entire landscape. The last time I wrote about this election season, it was Joe’s disastrous debate, where a couple things became clear really fast: The pressure to step down ramped up, especially from inside the…

  • (anti-) Social Media

    A funny thing happened on the way to the internet. As the world got more and more sucked into social media, I began reading Cal Newport and Alfie Kohn and gradually crawled out of them. But I’ll confess that I sort of stumbled, kicking and screaming, into SM sobriety. […]

  • Cyber antitruck

    But what is a truck really? For Musk, a truck is an irregular polyhedron.

  • Democracy Bible Study

    I got this weird little comic book a little while ago. It’s by historian Timothy Snyder. On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century was been adapted from Snyder’s full length, “regular” book of the same name (which itself was excellent). Why he or his publisher decided to turn it into a comic…

Recent Comments

  1. Me too! It’s such a clever critique of our consumerist culture. And oddly fitting movie for us that night in…

  2. I love this! Sounds like a cozy adventure, which IS a bit of an oxymoron! Sweet to think of you…

Recent Books

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
it was amazing
A sometimes bleak look at Evangelical abuses and corruption from someone deep on the inside, who would know what he’s talking about.
Enough
it was amazing
Excellent book, yet another trip down Trump lane. Why do I keep returning to this avenue?! This is actually easy to defend: the attempt to overthrow my government in my generation was a stunning development, one that nearly happened at m…
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
it was amazing
This was a fantastic book. It captures the "best" of heartbreaking true crime along with the intrigue of historical political thriller. I was stunned to read — once again — how much racial politics has so deeply informed much of Amer…

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