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From Dark Roasted Blend: The Art of Extreme Sleeping. Photos of nappers from Japan, to China, to the States, including cats, kids, and Japanese girl students. An incredible photo story. The “crowd-sourced justice” types (thanks to Dave Rogers for the term), may find themselves the target of the laws they advocate. One of the local laws […]

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Biofuel and global warming

The Christian Science Monitor has a good article on the effects of global warming in six different countries, including Indonesia. One aspect of global warming in that country is the aggressive nature of deforestation in order to grow palm trees for palm oil for biofuel. I am not in favor of biofuels. They do not address the […]

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If the lynching crowd

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Could be persuaded to put down their tar, feathers, pitchforks, and torches, perhaps they might listen to the details coming out about Megan Meiers and the Drews and might want to consider that they acted thoughtlessly, recklessly, and without all the facts. For six weeks, Josh and Megan traded “innocuous” messages, Banas said, […]

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Cranberries are the canary in the mine for global warming. If the RDF Triple is a fairy tale, is reification the wicked witch? Possible beginning to new series on RDF. Snow in the Puget Sound area. We missed the ice rain bullet, ourselves. On The Golden Compass: Earlier this fall, many Catholics began to receive e-mail messages warning […]

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Cyberstalking of free speech

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This state has gone nuts since the release of the Megan Meier story. If you hadn’t heard of it, Megan was a young girl, 13 going on 14, who killed herself after receiving cruel taunts on her MySpace account. It later came out that the ‘person’ who participated in sending the […]