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My Mishegoss

I don’t look Jewish. And we all know that everyone knows what I mean! I was lucky enough to have been adopted by a lovely and adoring Jewish couple and converted under rabbinic supervision within the first ten days of my life. I do not set off anyone’s Jewdar on…

Diversity

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My Mishegoss
My Mishegoss
Diversity

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Zany Misadventures in the Rule of Law

Update (Jan. 30, 2:42PM CT)— Joint statement on DuPage County Public Safety from DuPage County Board Chair Deborah Conroy, DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, and DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin: “Sheriff Mendrick is committed to enforcing all state and local laws. …

Second Amendment

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Zany Misadventures in the Rule of Law
Zany Misadventures in the Rule of Law
Second Amendment

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Jan 20

Gun Culture in Our Culture Wars

Solomon Pena ran for State Representative of New Mexico’s House District 14 last November, lost by about two thousand votes and claimed on social media that he should have won the election. On Monday, January 16, Albuquerque police arrested Pena with charges of paying four other men to shoot at…

Gun Culture

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Gun Culture in Our Culture Wars
Gun Culture in Our Culture Wars
Gun Culture

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Jan 14

The Wheel

It is Friday the Thirteenth in January of 2023, and we are in that holiday hangover time of year. That weird uncertain place between the Solstice and another new moon, trying to get our shit together for another spin on the Wheel of the Year. There are, and always will…

Living

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The Wheel
The Wheel
Living

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Jan 6

Treason Day, 2023

Treason Day. And the traitors are busy in their fourth day of trying to elect the 118th Congress’ Speaker of the House. …

January 6 2021

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Treason Day, 2023
Treason Day, 2023
January 6 2021

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Dec 31, 2022

The Jagged Ambiguity of New Years

It’s really just a good excuse for a party — an anticlimactic sop, apparently to those of us who don’t, didn’t or can’t take Christmas as spiritually serious as others may. …

New Year

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The Jagged Ambiguity of New Years
The Jagged Ambiguity of New Years
New Year

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Dec 30, 2022

Having their Hate and Eating it, too

Rep. Glenn Grothman avoided discussing anti-LGBTQ+ violence at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about violence against the LGBTQ+ community. Instead, Rep. …

Culture War

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Having their Hate and Eating it, too
Having their Hate and Eating it, too
Culture War

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Dec 9, 2022

Christmas ain’t What it Used to Be

Despite growing up with an outsider’s perspective, Christmas in America was still always a pretty good time. The music could be pretty good, where everyone from jazz beatniks and rockabilly greasers to dirty blues players and punk rockers wanted in on it. For Jesus’ birthday, the culture schlock mostly did…

War On Christmas

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Christmas ain’t What it Used to Be
Christmas ain’t What it Used to Be
War On Christmas

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Dec 2, 2022

Perverts

Perversion, in its dictionary definition, takes us much further than so-called unconventional sexual depravity as it is commonly used in everyday conversation: “[T]he act of changing something that is good or right into something that is bad or wrong; the result of this: the perversion of justice; Her account was…

Perversion

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Perverts
Perverts
Perversion

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Nov 24, 2022

Actual Reality

Many of our most severe issues and their obstacles to sound public policies for dealing with them are coming together within the story of the recent Club Q mass shooting in Colorado Springs. From the proliferation of the acting out of toxically masculine second amendment fantasies and the cynical mythologies…

Culture War

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Actual Reality
Actual Reality
Culture War

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Barry Dredze

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Just another mortal, tweaking my cognitive map on the fly.

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