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Random acts of Kindness
This weekend I was a recipient of a random act of kindness. I had been working on patching up the wall of my bathroom with some putty so that we (Mad and I) could finally give the bathroom the...
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We all lie
What with my general interest in ethics and morality, I found this article on CNN.com pretty neat. I have believed for a long time that all people are liars. This doesn’t mean that I don’t trust...
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Contemplation: An Age of Infedelity? Should We Get Over it?
By now I assume most people who pay attention to the news have heard about SC Governor Mark Sanford’s admittance to having an affair with a woman besides his wife (which I guess is essentially what an...
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Contemplation: In Defense of Swearing
@IanLord: ”Go back to Kansas you fucking piece of shit rednecks!!!!” @agautsc: ”Dear Google, if you don’t start working correctly soon I will curse at you in a way that would make @nhlord blush....
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Contemplation: Swearing, Another Look
Legislating language rarely works, because language develops to serve human purposes. Some people will always swear in private to show strong feelings — or to sound cool. Given our culture’s inexorable...
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Contemplation/Signs of the Apocalypse: The Human, Self-Subscribed, Extinction
Peter Singer, writing in the New York Times blog, The Stone, offers a fascinating contemplation regarding the ethics of continuing to bring human life into a world that is bound to cause suffering and...
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Contemplation: The Best Classes from College
As a note: I got the idea for this post from a Reddit discussion which can be viewed here. Within the next week it will be exactly four years since I graduated with a BA in English Writing from...
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Why I am Glad that I Grow Tomatoes
I love tomatoes. When I think about vegetables, all of which I really like anyways, I think tomatoes specifically stand out as my personal favorites (carrots, peppers and cucumbers are pretty high up...
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Contemplation: Ethics and Body Functions
I find the last frame from this Left-Handed Toons comic interesting and worthy of further discussion. via http://www.lefthandedtoons.com/1316/ The above image comes from a silly little comic, but it...
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