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The political response to school shootings is always the same. 1) Republicans say, "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims ...

Margaret Deland 1857-1945 If life is a series of births and deaths, I was reborn in the old books' section of a St. Vincent ...

I began to hate American football when I was forced to attend weekly high school "pep rallies" in which cheer leaders work...

Prabhupada's Palace of Gold near Moundsville, West Virginia   For much of my adult life, I was fascinated by communal living, and...

If a being that is all powerful, all knowing, and all compassionate exists, whence came such misery, but if it doesn't, why wors...

Unofficial Motto of the Church of Christ Some basics: The fundamentalist Church of Christ is congregationally ruled, and its beliefs a...

Bower Bird Artistry The recent news regarding men who sexually degrade women has led many women to express the belief that all, or nea...

Sage's Cage Card We agreed that three cats were enough. Then we made the mistake of looking at the kitties at PetSmart nine days...

Peggy is going to have back surgery for two slipped lumbar disks and one extrusion (the inside of the disk is being squeezed out of the di...

Peggy and me, 1981 For those who live in America and pay attention to the news, the top photo is a reminiscent of the recently release...

Frontispiece to The Clansman While browsing at St. Vinnie's, I came across the works of a Baptist preacher/writer named Thomas Dix...

During his confinement in Nazi work camps, psychiatrist Victor Frankel knew inmates who developed fantasies of being released on a given ...