In a couple of hours I will begin The Last Commute. This is the last time I will fight my way to work through the other grumpy, under-caffeinated workers of Northern Virginia. This is the last chance people will have to suddenly stop in front of me at the top of an escalator. Or to [...]

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I just received yet another collection of television shows on DVD, and suddenly I realize that the television I like enough to own is at least as old as I am, most of it even older:

Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Are You Being Served?
Wild Wild West
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Get Smart
Star Trek

I do own some more modern [...]

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It never takes long — again, I get the response from an atheist that only fundamentalist theology needs to be addressed, since fundamentalist theology is the most perfect expression of any religion. This time at “A Farrago of Gallimaufries”:

I agree that Harris, Dawkins, et al address much of their arguments towards the fundamentalists, but perhaps [...]

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You might recall there’s been a fight over the use of the
Wiccan pentacle at VA cemeteries. That’s apparently over; as of April 23 pentacle is now on the
list of approved emblems of belief (It’s #37).
The VA settled with Americans United for Separation of Church and State after AU uncovered evidence that the VA [...]

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Mac at pesky’apostrophe
points to Newt Gingrich —
the commencement speaker for the University of Mary Washington, a Virginia State University — joining forces with
James Lewis to lay blame for the Virginia Tech shootings on either liberal policies or liberal culture. It’s a little unclear which.
But a lot of the asshole wingnuts on the [...]

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