isaiah 2016: 1-12
Here me, people of this digital nation. The Lord no longer speaks in this land but rather is spoken for by so many impostors. Two thousand pages has no potency against one hundred and forty...
View Articlenew year, new hope
My plan for 2017 is simple: be kind, be charitable, be compassionate everyday. This has been my lifelong plan, though I certainly fail quite often, and the emphasis for this new year is obvious.With...
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pretty much my favorite animal
Newsweek re-post of a Mother Jones article on the 6th Great Extinction. I am really sad about giraffes being on the list. Giraffes are pretty much my favorite animal.I get why some people consider...
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Season seven of Star Trek: the Next Generation was largely unsatisfying. By the final season, the crew of the Enterprise-D had turned back the Borg, boxed in the Romulans, arbitrated Klingon...
View Articletimmy the tim paints a picture 'bout how it's gonna be
In these uncertain times, it's more important than ever to reach out to those we love and those who love us. I think about my wife and that she's been my everything for over seventeen years. And my...
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and i will embrace the marinara upon my face
The Chancery in Wauwatosa closed its doors for the final time this past Saturday. Not stand-alone and not quite a chain, the Chancery combined the best aspects of free popcorn, breaded food and...
View Articlei refuse to give into my blues
My relationship with my big idiot brother is long and complicated. We shared a bedroom from the day I was born until the day he bought a house. He is a good person, a great father and a hard worker....
View Articlethe other thing that happened today
I'm listening to my Pandora CCR station at work when a Creedence Clearwater Revisited version of "Travelin' Band" turns on. I dove at my phone as fast as I could to press the skip button, but I had to...
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the day muslims were banned
I write this blog (or "blah-g" as my friend Rose would say) mostly because I like writing and have very few outlets for this passion (other than endless patient care notes). Some days I just start...
View Articlescattered, divided, leaderless
But it is still in women and men that we must place our hope.The people in the streets, in their peaceful protests, are holding a line that President Trump and the alt-right thought would not hold....
View Articlesour logic
Senator Mitch McConnell refused to allow President Obama's nomination for the vacant Supreme Court seat, Judge Merrick Garland, to have a fair hearing before the Senate. McConnell argued that "the...
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reinhold?
I have a really fancy Hi-Def television in my basement. Fifty-five inch LCD flatscreen. Relative to many I don't consider myself very materialistic, but I've wanted this TV for a long time and now I...
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Melissa McCarthy's spoof of Press Secretary Sean Spicer is hysterically funny and likely will still be so five, ten and twenty five years from now. It's outlandishly comical. But for me personally, I...
View Articleaftermath
When the Two Towers were attacked and felled, I was twenty one years old and one year removed from studying abroad in Scotland. In a ten month span, my personal world view, with American agency as...
View Articlepizza parlor on old world 3rd street
A Monday night. 10:30 PM. Unusually unfrigid for February in Milwaukee. A school teacher and a general practitioner duck into a pizza parlor. A late night snack before heading home after watching...
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old sport
Whether it was time or volition, I wasn't able to catalog the bread and circus of what will undoubtedly be written down for historical purposes as "The Press Conference". I was doing something much...
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