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By
thudfactor on
August 10, 2006
Now this is cool — the Woodrow Wilson project folks are having an essay contest. Write the best essay about how the old Woodrow Wilson Bridge ruined your life, and you win the right to “throw the switch”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/09/AR2006080901881.html and begin its demolition.
Sadly, I don’t have a story myself. But I have friends who do. One spent several [...]
Posted in Diary
| Tagged Maryland, North Central Freeway, official web site, Virginia, Washington DC, Woodrow Wilson bridge
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By
thudfactor on
July 19, 2006
“The Elf”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/ is frequently exhausted, but otherwise fine. She’s even “posted herself about getting pregnant”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/wordpress/?p=248. We’re keeping our fingers crossed. As far as we know, everything is fine. But we’re anxious nonetheless.
It’s partly the fault of all the pregnancy books which do such a great job of telling you how many ways things can go wrong. [...]
Posted in Sex
| Tagged El Salvador, law enforcement, New York Times, Rick Santorum, Salvador, South Dakota, Virginia
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By
thudfactor on
July 14, 2006
The western end of Virginia under the Appalachian mountains has a lot of caverns. I’ve been to Luray Caverns many times, but I’ve never taken the time to stop at Skyline Caverns. Now I’m glad.
According to Helmut, once they got well underground
their tour guide turned on a pre-recorded creationist lecture. Now, I don’t know about [...]
Posted in Diary, Religion
| Tagged Helmut, USD, Virginia
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By
thudfactor on
July 11, 2006
I’m reminded by “the discussion here”:http://tinyurl.com/s4hua that there are far more egregious examples of government interference in religion than the Department of Veterans Affairs “refusing to put a pentacle on a dead Wiccan soldier’s memorial”:http://www.thudfactor.com/wordpress/2006/07/09/emblems-of-belief/.
Consider the American Indian. Although there is a commercial, New-Agish, homogenized “Native American Spirituality” that tracks more closely perhaps with neopaganisms than [...]
Posted in Religion
| Tagged American Indian Trust Fund, Arizona, Bureau of Indian Affairs, California, Colorado, Department of Veterans Affairs, federal government, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Osage Nation, Patrick Stewart, Robert Soto, State government, Texas, Virginia
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By
thudfactor on
May 30, 2006
My father
reports on Memorial Day in Bristol, Virginia, where a small group gathered at the Bristol War Memorial for an announced wreath-laying ceremony. Unfortunately, that ceremony never happened. It was apparently rescheduled.
As 11:00 neared, we looked for the mayor, vice-mayor, the VFW honor guard, or just anyone who looked like they were part of the [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Bristol, Bristol War Memorial, cellular telephone, Italy, Memorial Day, Virginia
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