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Since we were going to get one nice day this week, I took my new camera and newer polorizing filter out for a walk around town. I was hoping I might be able to get some protests or colorful behavior, but perversely the good weather seems to have [...]

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I’ve been threatening a redesign for awhile now, but honestly — one is _really_ in the works. This most recent look isn’t it, by the way. It’s just a temporary facelift. I think I’m going to stick with this layout (titles on the left). Practically everything else — colors, tagline, etc — is going to [...]

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I’ve been at least as surprised by the response to the Terri Schiavo issue as the Republican leadership. I thought, “as they certainly did”:http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Schiavo/story?id=600937, that their actions would welcomed by the pro-lifers in specific but ignored people in general. Apparently I am wrong. For some reason I would have thought the constitutional and government [...]

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Two new movie reviews on Anvil & Sprocket: the brief but disturbing (and I mean neither of those in a good way) anime “_Kite_”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/review.php?rec=156, and the lost science fiction classic “_The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra_”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/review.php?rec=158.

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Here’s something I wonder about the Schiavo case. One of the reasons frequently given for restoring Schiavo’s feeding tube is that death by dehydration and/or starvation is cruel. Dying of thirst and starvation sounds particularly awful.
But the fact is that’s the only option left us. Because we do not allow our doctors to assist [...]

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