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As we are strugglng through the screaming, waist-high hordes of a children’s museum during our summer vacation, we enter the LEARN ABOUT PHYSICS room sponsored by Piggly Wiggly.

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Guess what? There’s a debt crisis. Or as Jon Stewart says: Armadebtdon 2011 Here’s a little bit of background in case you live in a hole in Montana. (PS. Please don’t bomb me.) We have a debt ceiling, $14.3 trillion, which sounds huge if you think of the fact that if you stacked dollar bills [...]

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I believe that people are inherently good. I know this goes against CNN, the nightly news and many religions, but here’s my proof. When we do bad things, we need to justify it. If I yell at someone, I want to explain WHY it was okay to yell at them. Even serial killers often have [...]

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Okay, I'm still a LITTLE scared of ALEX: REPLY TODAY.

I was under the impression that organizing would be good for me.  A quick Google search show that there are at least 200 organization sites devoted to LYING TO ME. I have had my email organized for months with automatic filters into fantastic folders that should improve everything in m life. Sure, organizing my email [...]

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Many people have asked how I went from a Republican atheist to a God-loving, Christian-leaning liberal. I’ve not been inclined to write about it until this week when I read an essay from the New York Times — a commencement speech by Jonathon Franzen. I clicked on it not because I’ve read any of Franzen’s [...]

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On May 20th, there was an explosion in the Foxconn Chengdu plant in China. It’s one of two factories that produces iPads. 3 people were killed and 15 injured. The explosion was caused by combustible dust in an air duct of the polishing workshop according city officials in Chengdu. (Source: New York Times) Apple’s statement: [...]

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I have been fascinated and appalled by the levee system of the Mississippi river. Small towns have been under water for weeks in order to save the larger cities all along the river based on decisions by the Army Corp of Engineers. One town that predates the levee, Pinhook, MO, is underwater in order to [...]

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Ask Alex Button

One of my favorite readers and email forwarded-ers asks the question this week. Walt of LuckyPuppy.net and I are proof that a flaming liberal and a kooky conservative can be friends. Walt asks: You made it to the life boat and have strength to pull one person from the water. Scott (husband), E (4 year [...]

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