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Hear the crying

First published April 2002 and so apropos today. When two year old pain can sound as fresh and relevant today as then, we as a people are failing our lessons. “I want silence more than anything. I want everyone to shut the hell up so we can all hear the crying. I want everyone to […]

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Zero to sixty in ten seconds

Mr. Allan Moult, my friend as well as my boss at Leatherwood Online is celebrating an important birthday tomorrow, tomorrow in this case being May 8th. Allan is a journalist, photographer, a writer, an editor, and a very interesting person who has traveled more than most people I know. He is also a tireless defender of the natural […]

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Drowning in a sea of surety

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I think that we should designate one day per week to be Humility Day. Or perhaps Day of Doubt or Insecurity Day. Each weblog we visit, the owner–myself included–pontificates on all the wrongs and evils of the day. Expressing opinions is a good thing, but lately it seems that even […]

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Lord, grant me tolerance

My belief in the existence of God or not is simple. And personal. My country does not have to believe as I do. If a child is hungry they don’t have to believe as I do for me to give them food. If a man is sick and can’t rise from his bed, he doesn’t […]

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Googled to death

For someone interested in this sort of thing–I am interested in this sort of thing, aren’t I?–I never did make a statement about Google’s Gmail. Gmail is a centralized email system with virtually unlimited space to hold your messages, and with the ability to use Google’s search algorithms to research your email. Bells and whistles […]