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She Would Have Turned 60 Today
I wrote this in 2010, but have not published it until today, February 28, 2020. I wrote the headline today, but I have not otherwise updated time references. Twenty-seven years ago, on October 16, 1983, a deeply troubled young woman let go of her last hold on life, and tumbled off the Golden Gate Bridge.…
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Dictionaries: A Modern-Day Morality Play
“If you don’t look up the words you don’t know, you don’t deserve the beauty of literature,” my teacher said. Four decades later I still feel the lash in her voice.
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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Fourth Blogiversary Prompts Reflections on Why I Blog
The clash of ideas is part of what makes this a great country, but I try to let the ideas clash while treating the people on the other side with respect. I find people are more willing to consider my point of view if I refrain from ridiculing them.
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“Hide the Decline”: Birth of a Blog Post, and Credit Where Credit is Due
If you think global warming is probably “settled science,” but you’re willing to read one article to give skeptics a chance to change your mind, read this remarkable indictment, published all the way last Tuesday, while the pixels of the original leak were still quivering.
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Shameless Self-Promotion: Episcopal Edition
I just realized I haven’t bragged about this yet. It turns out I’m an award-winning writer. .
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Strange Bedfellows: House GOP Leadership Has Obama’s Back in Libya Showdown With Kucinich
When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama launched an air war against the Libyan regime without Congressional approval in March, he said he expected the action to last “days, not weeks.” In a post about “the bizarreness of it all,” I tried to keep an open mind about the intervention and said I was hoping…
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There Are a Billion Muslims — We Better Make Friends With Some of Them
America is at war with a global enemy motivated by Islam — but if Islam itself is the enemy, we’re all in trouble. Father Butler should be commended, not attacked, for working to build bridges between Muslims and Christians.
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Flash Reaction to Obama’s Walk-Back of “Stupid” Comment
Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> This will continue to be debated and analyzed for days, but my first thought was, “good for Obama.” If you go looking for things to criticize in his six-minute statement, you’ll no doubt find them, but he clearly intended to reduce tension, and I suspect he’ll succeed. I…