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*Mildred the Cat: 1986-2006*
Today, Mildred joined her step-brothers Big Mac and Whopper; she is the last of my childhood pets to pass. She was younger than them by about four years or so, and was probably the most intellegent of the three. She was certainly the bossiest. At twenty years old, she was [...] Read more »

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Isn’t it adorable how the wingnut mind can make straw men out of straw men and then extrapolate those straw men out to alarming and counter-intuitive conclusions? Consider how Stephen Green of Instapundit turns political opposition to George Bush into an “impending liberal military coup”:http://vodkapundit.com/archives/008789.php:
bq. First, the Left used the “chickenhawk” argument to claim that [...] Read more »

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Some people cut themselves with razor blades; I continue to try to write. [
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When I started the Anvil & Sprocket several—five?—years ago, it was in part to build a regular practice of writing. I’ve been successful at that, more or less, although A&S is currently badly broken and I’m spending far more [...] Read more »

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The fact that Karl Rove had to give up one of his jobs (”to focus on the midterm elections” rather than “to spend more time with his family”) should not obscure the fact that Karl Rove should never have had any policy role to begin with. Read more »

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Jason highlights several stories about the “pagan roots of Easter”:http://www.wildhunt.org/2006/04/pagan-easter-post-plus-easter-war.html that ran in newspapers across the country. Also, towards the end, he notes the efforts of an evangelical _atheist_ group _Beyond Belief Media_ to sneak their tracts and films into Christian Easter services, something that strikes me as more than a little tacky.
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