Mission Impossible
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This is exactly how I get into trouble.
Body parts
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Because I’ve always been interested in what people believe, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at pictures of their gods. For many years the ancient gods––Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek––seemed very bizarre. The people in those old lands had so many strange looking gods I wondered how they knew what to believe. Continue Reading
Passing on the torch from the geriatric generation
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In one week in early January 2012, the Twin Cities peace community lost Dr. Gene Ott, age 82, and Marv Davidov, age 80 after months and years of failing health. Continue Reading
Martin Luther King, “Where do we go from here?”
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Sunday morning at Basilica of St. Mary, Fr. Greg Miller chose to close his homily with an extended quote from Martin Luther King’s talk to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference 16 August 1967. Continue Reading
I have a minor distate for some political bloggers
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Last week, I wrote about a blogger named David Seaman who was a contributor for Business Insider. Business Insider is much like another website that I wrote about in the past called Triond.&n Continue Reading
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is as twisted as it is dark
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Often times, when there is a screenplay adapted from a book, folks tend to believe the movie can’t live up to the hype. The stigma is not true of this thriller, which delivers nothing short of perfection. Adapted for the silver screen from the international best seller by the late Steig Larsson, this film is features a truly misunderstood girl that works as an investigator, using no Continue Reading
Marv Davidov: 1931-2012
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Not all the good die young. Some are tough old birds, speaking out and singing loudly all the way to the end. Peace and justice advocate Marv Davidov was one of the good ones. He died on January 14, 80 years old.
Remembering Marv Davidov
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I moved to the Twin Cities after the Honeywell Project years so it took me a few years before my path crossed with Marv Davidov. It seemed to me that everyone involved in peace and justice protest in the area had worked with Marv at some time or other. Continue Reading