Archive for May, 2005
Saturday, May 28th, 2005
It's been a bizarre and chaotic few weeks: Theresa was on a jury for a couple of weeks; my brother was here for a week; and Theresa left her job. So, what should have been the settling down and segueing into the summer to fall-of-leave has instead been ...
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
I was going to write a bit about the filibuster/nuclear option thing which should come to a head in the next day or so (through the evil leadership of Bill Frist), but I think Brian Leiter has said it better than I could. Read his entry The Filibuster.
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2005
I just tossed off a quick note to the "God Squad" column ("How to keep faith when grandpa's a vocal atheist") in NewsDay (NY/LI) which I'll share here:
Once again, your column spreads anti-atheist slander -- this time, in your "How to keep faith when grandpa's a vocal atheist", ...
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Saturday, May 14th, 2005
It's a hellish home stretch for the semester -- all the usual end-of-semester stuff, but compounded by additional time burdens I'll say a bit about later, but not now (you'll see why then). So, instead of commenting on the little media frenzy over the whole Gay Men Respond Differently ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2005
A song from the "Barney: Safety" video:I like my head, how about you,
It lets me know I'm alive...
Um, me too.
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Since seeing The Lion King a few months ago, Oz has been on a kick of thinking about death. First it was mostly about Mufasa's death in the movie, but then he moved on to asking, talking, and thinking about death more generally, who's dead and who isn't, and ...
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
So, I expected that my 30 minutes of taped interview on alien abduction with the local Fox station would end up as 10 or 15 seconds of broadcast video -- maybe two sound bites. It ended up as about 3 seconds, although a perfectly good 3 seconds of me ...
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Monday, May 2nd, 2005
So, as somebody might remember, I was interviewed on-camera way back in late January by the local Fox station for a "Special Assignment" report on alien abductions, which I posted about in the appropriately-titled entry "I am a media slut". It was then delayed for lack of an abductee ...
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