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People commonly refer to 'common sense' but really it seems that few people have it (right around with 'common courtesy' and 'common decency' in terms of being endangered of going extinct) . Was sense ever really common? If so what happened to it? Did people become less able to use their sense? Did they become less willing? Or is the whole idea of ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to the funeral of my Great Uncle Bob. He had died on my birthday. He was the husband to my Grandma's sister. I hadn't seen him in a while and he was in poor health for a long time. He actually stopped talking in December.

As we were attending the mass the song for "A Prayer of Saint Francis" was played. It was one of those throat- ( Read more... )

You Belong in the Silent Generation


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It's my birthday. Joy.

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When all is said and done I foresee a Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton team-up for president.
I really cannot foresee who else they might pair up with otherwise unless Edwards or one of the others who dropped out joins one of them or there's some sort of Apocalypse and one of the Republicans switches sides and joins as VP (though Giuliani would not be ( Read more... )

Since I've been nothing but gloomy lately, something amusing from Golden Compass:



*Edit: Still not working... *sigh*

By now I don't think I'm in any danger of spoiling Deathly Hallows so I will say that at one point in the story Severus Snape says something to Lilly Evans in a moment of extreme emotion - something that causes her great emotional harm. It is something that he cannot take back and cannot apologize for. It is something that destroys their years of ( Read more... )

Burma, Venezuela, Ecuador - dictatorship, and upcoming dictatorships. To be sure the people there fight back, but one only needs to look at what happened to the Buddhist monks in Burma or the incident at Red Square in China to know, in the end, might makes right. One person I know, a great opera singer, will soon be forced to return to Eucador. He ( Read more... )