January 2011

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I really can­not stand to be solicited, pan­han­dled, polled, peti­tioned, or oth­er­wise queried com­ing into, or out of, stores. I wish estab­lish­ments would more strictly mon­i­tor and/or enforce their no solic­i­ta­tion polices.  It’s annoy­ing as hell to pull up to the Safe­way to be accosted by some­one run­ning for some ran­dom local posi­tion (not dissing […]

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The Oscar nom­i­na­tions were announced this morn­ing. Best Pic­ture Black Swan The Fighter Incep­tion The Kids are All Right Toy Story 3 The King’s Speech The Social Net­work True Grit Winter’s Bone 127 Hours   Best Actor in a Lead­ing Role Jesse Eisen­berg — The Social Net­work Colin Firth — The King’s Speech James Franco — 127 Hours Jeff […]

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I have been post­ing some of my favorite quotes by the late Rev. Dr. Mar­tin Luther King Jr. Today marks the last of the quotes, and I thought it appro­pri­ate to end with an expres­sion of love, devo­tion, and sin­cere appre­ci­a­tion for his wife, Coretta Scott King. I am indebted to my wife Coretta, with­out whose […]

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I posted my reac­tion on Face­book to for­mer sena­tor, and White House hope­ful, Rick Santorum’s statement/gaffe — depend­ing on how you look at it — about abor­tion and Obama’s posi­tion on life. You can hear the clip from his inter­view with the Chris­t­ian News Ser­vice below. Well…in case there was any ques­tion whether San­to­rum was attempting […]

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Non­vi­o­lence is absolute com­mit­ment to the way of love. Love is not emo­tional bash; it is not empty sen­ti­men­tal­ism. It is the active out­pour­ing of one’s whole being into the being of another.

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Photo: Bettmann/CORBIS   The func­tion of edu­ca­tion is to teach one to think inten­sively and to think crit­i­cally… Intel­li­gence plus char­ac­ter – that is the goal of true education    

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An indi­vid­ual who breaks a law that con­science tells him is unjust, and who will­ingly accepts the penalty of impris­on­ment in order to arouse the con­science of the com­mu­nity over its injus­tice, is in real­ity express­ing the high­est respect for the law.