• To De-Convert or Not

    I am re-reading Thomas Merton’s "The Seven Storey Mountain" for the first time in well over a decade, and I am chuckling at (and skimming through, when my patience is short) some of it. He sure waxed poetic (in an overbearing kind of way) about his view of people and places through the lens of…

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  • Greece, are you really rounding up transgender people???

    In a blog post dated 5 June 2013, Mhairi McAlpine alleges the Greek government has been rounding up transgender people as part of their quest to “cleanse the streets of undesirables”. She says they are detained for several hours, then “are warned that if they do not ‘return to normal’ they would be arrested for…

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  • A Little (FB) Privacy, Please

    In case you have not noticed, Facebook has a real overshare issue, in that it defaults to the assumption you want the whole world to know all of your business. A friend and I talked about it this afternoon, and a couple of facts came out of our conversation that other people might not have…

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  • “The Inspired Way”, Exactly the eBook I Needed to Read

    When Ariane Hunter announced the release of her ebook, "The Inspired Way", I immediately downloaded it to my Nook. Then I forgot about it. Yesterday, in the process of channeling my unexplained desire for an iPad into gratitude for my Nook, I rediscovered the book. Am I ever glad I did! In this book 22…

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  • Reverse Atlas Shrugged

    It just occurred to me, while reading about skyrocketing real estate prices in NYC, that as the rich keep getting richer the rest of us are going to develop our own society.

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