Monthly Archives: March 2012
Democracy and moderation
Utah, I’ve learned, is one of two states in the US that used a particular caucus system for selecting candidates for the general election. Each precinct’ party members get together and select not candidates for office, but delegates to a … Continue reading
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Dancing in the dark
Okay, this is kinda cool. The music grates a bit, but this is ingenious choreography.
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Barry Manilow and parental influence
I was recently reading the liner notes for a Barry Manilow compilation album, and was struck by this passage: His lifelong love of music was given a direction when his mother remarried Willie Murphy, a truck driver for Schaefer Brewery … Continue reading
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Gratuitous Hollywood
Last weekend my wife and I watched the old Jimmy Stewart movie “Shenandoah”, in which Stewart plays a Virginia farmer who has carved out a succesful farm with just the help of his sons and daughter. His wife has died, … Continue reading
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Concern for my daughter
At first I was going to write about Rush Limbaugh and how hypocritical the rapid, uncivil response has been. Then I wanted to write about Ms. Fluke and why everyone should pay for her contraception. But ultimately I decided I … Continue reading
The years of living dangerously
I grew up in a very dangerous time. During the 1970’s children were not required to wear seatbelts in the back seats, playground equipment was often mounted straight into the asphalt, we never wore helmets to ride our bikes (or … Continue reading
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Be Gretchen
Based on my brother’s recent blog post I went and looked at Gretchen Rubin’s 10 Commandments, hoping for a little inspiration. Of course each one of her commandments is linked to a blog post for more detail. For her first commandment, … Continue reading
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The joy of lag-time
I’ve been on a blog-writing spree lately, but I don’t expect it to last. That’s why instead of publishing more than one post in a day I just schedule them out in advance. You get some “current events” posts that … Continue reading
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Book Review: Janitors – Tyler Whitesides
I mentioned recently meeting published author Tyler Whitesides. This is his book. It took awhile to get to it (we were reading The Hobbit first), but I finally read it to my kids (at least the one who didn’t get impatient and read it already). … Continue reading
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Pigeons of Discontent
I discovered Gretchen Rubin several years ago when she was still researching for her book “The Happiness Project“. I’ll admit I lost track of her again until just recently when I found her on Forbes.com. Today she posted a video … Continue reading
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