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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 27, 2021Mar 2021

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Nodus NO-dəs Part of speech: noun Origin: Late Middle English, late 14th century 1: a problem, difficulty, or complication Examples of Nodus in a sentence "The team hadn’t expected to encounter a nodus this early into the project." ...

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News & Links

Mar 27, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/26/2021

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed his state’s new voter suppression law last night in a carefully staged photo op. As journalist Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer pointed out, Kemp sat at a polished table, with six white men around him, under a painting of the Callaway Plantation on which more than 100 Black people had been enslaved. As the men bore witness to the signing, Representative Park Cannon, a Black female lawmaker, was arrested and dragged away from the governor’s office....

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 26, 2021Mar 2021

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Coeval koh-EE-vəl Part of speech: adjective Origin: Latin, early 17th century 1: a person of roughly the same age as oneself; a contemporary Examples of Coeval in a sentence "It was hard to believe that level-headed Margaret is a coeval to ...

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Mar 26, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKCatholic church opposed suicide hotline because it included support for LGBTQ people / LGBTQ Nation

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops also opposes the Violence Against Woman Act and providing broader public accommodations protections for people of color for the same reason. “All persons must be protected from violence, but codifying the classifications ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ as contained in S. 47 is problematic,” the bishops admitted in a statement. The men also refuse to consider providing broader public accommodations protections for women, people of ...

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Mar 25, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKClosing web browser windows doesn't close connections

Not the most technically sophisticated amongst us, does turning off the computer stop this? Closing web browser windows doesn't close connections March 17 2021 by Jeff Johnson Support this blog: StopTheMadness, Link Unshortener, Underpass, PayPal.Me Months ago I noticed something strange in the Little Snitch Network Monitor: Safari was still connecting to web sites after every window had been closed. At the time, I thought this was just a Safari bug. I brought the issue to the attention ...

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Mar 25, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKHow To Make Job Interviews Less Horrible : Planet Money : NPR

Since I am job searching I found this very interesting. That interview for the job often doesn't end up hiring the right candidate because of human "noise".

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Mar 25, 2021Mar 2021

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Sheepshank SHEEP-shangk Part of speech: noun Origin: Unknown, mid 17th century 1: a kind of knot used to shorten a rope temporarily Examples of Sheepshank in a sentence "Killian was glad he remembered a few knots, like a sheepshank, from his ...

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Mar 25, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/24/2021

Last night, federal prosecutors filed a motion revealing that a leader of the paramilitary group the Oath Keepers claimed to be coordinating with the Proud Boys and another far-right group before the January 6 insurrection. After former President Donald Trump tweeted that his supporters should travel to Washington, D.C., on January 6 for a rally that “will be wild!,” Kelly Meggs, a member of the Oath Keepers, wrote on Facebook: “He wants us to make it WILD that’s what he’s saying. ...

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Politics

Mar 24, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKBiden prepared to chuck filibuster in bid to reshape America, quickly - Axios

President Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians that included discussion of how big is too big — and how fast is too fast — to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes to America. Why it matters ... The historians’ views were very much in sync with his own: It is time to go even bigger and faster than anyone expected. If that means chucking the filibuster and bipartisanship, so be it. Four things are pushing Biden to jam through what could amount...

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Trump Pinata

Mar 24, 2021Mar 2021

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Appropriated from FB.

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 24, 2021Mar 2021

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Leitmotif LAYT-mo-teef Part of speech: noun Origin: German, late 19th century 1: a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation Examples of Leitmotif in a sentence ...

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News & Links

Mar 24, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/23/2021

Posted in it's entirety, I think this is an important read. Ten more people in Boulder, Colorado, died yesterday, shot by a man with a gun, just days after we lost 8 others in Atlanta, Georgia, shot by a man with a gun. In 2017, after the murder of 58 people in Las Vegas, political personality Bill O’Reilly said that such mass casualties were “the price of freedom.” But his is a very recent interpretation of guns and their meaning in America. The Second Amendment to the ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 23, 2021Mar 2021

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Lagomorph LA-gə-morf Part of speech: noun Origin: Latin, 1880s 1: a mammal of the order Lagomorpha; a hare, rabbit, or pika. Examples of Lagomorph in a sentence "The professor clarified that he only studied lagomorphs, not other rodents." ...

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Mar 23, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKMy boss offered me money to film a sex tape with two coworkers — Ask a Manager

I read AskAManager every day, and have read it for about 6 years. Today made my jaw drop! A reader writes: So…I’ll just come out and say that I know this it totally inappropriate, to say the least, and I need to find a new job ASAP. What I’m looking for is advice on how to cope with this in the meantime, and how to salvage my career moving forward. I’ve worked for a small trucking company owned a very, very wealthy man for the past two years. This company is more of a hobby ...

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Mar 23, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/22/2021

The Biden administration has been quite open about its belief that we are in a global war to reestablish the security of democracy in the face of rising authoritarianism. On February 4, President Biden said in a speech at the State Department that American diplomacy must be “rooted in America’s most cherished democratic values: defending freedom, championing opportunity, upholding universal rights, respecting the rule of law, and treating every person with dignity.” Secretary of State ...

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Mar 22, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKFFRF cheers appeals court decision against praying Wash. coach - Freedom From Religion Foundation

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is applauding a ruling against a praying football coach. A three-judge panel at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled in favor of Washington’s Bremerton School District, which did not renew the coach’s contract after he refused to stop praying on the job. Joe Kennedy had been singled out for praise by then-President Trump, including in a speech from the Oval Office on Religious Freedom Day and has been a darling of Christian ...

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Mar 22, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKThe man behind an Instagram account showing pastors’ wealth - The Washington Post

Preachers and their $5,000 sneakers: Why one man started an Instagram account showing churches’ wealth. By Sarah Pulliam Bailey March 22, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. CDT From his couch in Dallas, Ben Kirby began asking questions about the lifestyles of the rich and famous pastors when he was watching some worship songs on YouTube on a Sunday morning in 2019. While listening to a song by Elevation Worship, a megachurch based in Charlotte, the evangelical churchgoer noticed the lead singer’s ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 22, 2021Mar 2021

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Auspice AHS-pəs Part of speech: noun Origin: Latin, mid 16th century 1: a divine or prophetic token Examples of Auspice in a sentence "The swallow sighting was a favorable auspice." "Gregory was superstitious about all kinds of auspices and ...

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Mar 22, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/21/2021

As the Biden administration sets out to restore a government that can regulate business to level the playing field in the United States between workers and employers, address inequality, and combat climate change, Republicans are turning to the courts to stop him. Republican attorneys general have already launched a number of lawsuits challenging various of the new administration’s policies. Twenty-one states are suing Biden for revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline to cross the ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 21, 2021Mar 2021

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Quiddity KWID-ə-dee Part of speech: noun Origin: Latin, 14th century 1: The inherent nature or essence of someone or something. 2: A distinctive feature; a peculiarity. Examples of Quiddity in a sentence "Her love of singing is as much a ...

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Mar 21, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKDon’t Discount Evangelicalism as a Factor in Racist Murder of Asian Spa Workers in Georgia | Religion Dispatches

Today, America is still reeling from the news of the mass murder of eight people at massage parlors in Georgia. Many are rightly calling the shooting spree an act of white supremacist terrorism, as the victims targeted were Asian women. The moment I read that the man who confessed to the murders was the son of a youth pastor who told police he had a “sex addiction,” however, it struck me that we must not ignore the specifically evangelical Protestant contours of this story.

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Mar 21, 2021Mar 2021

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In Deleted Sermon, Georgia Shooter’s Pastor Said “Radical Feminism” Was Satanic | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos

Crabapple First Baptist Church announced this week that they were going to officially kick Robert Aaron Long, the Georgia spa shooter who murdered eight people, out of their congregation. They explained that despite celebrating his baptism in 2018 (in a now-deleted Facebook post), they could “no longer affirm that he is truly a regenerate believer in Jesus Christ.” In other words, he had betrayed Jesus. The statement itself seemed fairly comprehensive. The church admitted Long’s family ...

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Mar 20, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/19/2021

When I see Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and other voices from our right wing, siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin in his demand that President Joe Biden debate him or pretending that the January 6 attack on the Capitol wasn’t a big deal, or Republicans voting to overturn a legitimate election or trying to keep Americans from voting, sometimes I despair of our democracy. But a poll released by the Pew Research Center yesterday shows that these Republicans are out of step with ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 20, 2021Mar 2021

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Vernal VER-nl Part of speech: adjective Origin: Latin, mid 16th century 1: of, in, or appropriate to spring Examples of Vernal in a sentence "Justine paused her hike to admire the vernal forest view." "I have a particular affection for ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 19, 2021Mar 2021

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Twig twig Part of speech: verb Origin: Unknown, mid 18th century 1: (as verb) understand or realize something Examples of Twig in a sentence "Tyson suddenly twigged that he had forgotten his report in the car." "After the appraisal that the ...

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News & Links

Mar 19, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/18/2021

On Tuesday, in Georgia, a gunman murdered 1 man and 7 women, at three spas, and wounded another man. All three of the businesses were operating legally, according to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, and had not previously come to the attention of the Atlanta Police Department, although all three had been reviewed by an erotic review site. The man apprehended for the murders was 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, who is described as deeply religious. Six of the women killed were of Asian descent....

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Posts

Mar 18, 2021Mar 2021

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Lizzyblog If I were a betting person I'd bet this is a scammer or a lost Xian. No bio, no pic. She has made one post: I noticed the term Blessed immediately. Oy. Long Beach, CA, claims to be a widow, no given. Has now ...

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Watchers

Mar 18, 2021Mar 2021

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Lizzyblog If I were a betting person I'd bet this is a scammer or a lost Xian. No bio, no pic. She has made one post: I noticed the term Blessed immediately. Oy. Long Beach, CA, claims to be a widow, no age given. ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 18, 2021Mar 2021

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Schuss shoos Part of speech: noun Origin: German, 1930s 1: A straight downhill run on skis. Examples of Schuss in a sentence "While a schuss is inviting to experienced skiers, beginners are advised to steer clear." "Harold impressed ...

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News & Links

Mar 18, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/17/2021

Today the House of Representatives approved awarding Congressional Gold Medals to members of the Capitol Police for their defense of the Capitol on January 6. Four hundred and thirteen members voted in favor, and 12 Republicans opposed the measure. A number of party members took offense at the language in the bill, which referred to the Capitol as “the temple of our American Democracy” and called the rioters “a mob of insurrectionists.” Part of their objection comes from their ...

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Mar 17, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/16/2021

Today, I’m watching some stories that have immediate significance, but also indicate larger trends. First, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has asked the Justice Department, now overseen by Attorney General Merrick Garland, to look into the unusual circumstances through which Brett Kavanaugh’s large debts disappeared before his nomination to the Supreme Court. While this question is important to understanding Kavanaugh’s position on our Supreme Court, it is more than that: it is part ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 17, 2021Mar 2021

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Chartreuse shar-TROOS Part of speech: noun Origin: French, late 19th century 1: A pale green or yellow liqueur made from brandy and aromatic herbs. 2: A pale yellow or green color resembling the liqueur chartreuse. Examples of Chartreuse in a ...

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General & Hellos

Mar 17, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKThe Secular Communities Survey

WELCOME TO THE SECULAR COMMUNITIES SURVEY! The Secular Communities Survey is the largest-ever study of the community life of secular and nonreligious people in the United States. The survey also measures people’s political views and their degree of civic engagement. SURVEY OPEN MARCH 1 to APRIL 11, 2021 Please participate!

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News & Links

Mar 17, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKA New String of State Bills Could Give Religious Organizations Blanket Immunity from Any Wrongdoing

New legislation in states across the country could shield religious organizations from all civil and criminal liability. Religious exemptions on steroids: That’s the only way to describe legislation being considered this week by lawmakers in Arizona, South Carolina, and Montana. Under the guise of protecting the ability to worship during emergency disasters, these bills could give religious organizations blanket immunity from all civil and criminal liability — as long as they claim to be ...

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Mar 16, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLinking Evangelical Subculture and Phallically Insecure Masculinity Using Google Searches for Male Enhancement

Numerous studies document the connection between American evangelicalism and male insecurity stemming from essentialist, phallocentric conceptions of masculinity. Yet data have often been confined to individuals’ responses in surveys or qualitative interviews. This limits our understanding because individuals may lie about the most personal sources of insecurity (even to themselves) and such data are difficult to aggregate to broader subcultural influences. Building on a moral communities’ ...

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News & Links

Mar 16, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKMajor Hack of Camera Company Offers Four Key Lessons on Surveillance from News & Commentary | American Civil Liberties Union

This is very concerning: We learned last week that a group of hackers gained access to cameras installed by a surveillance camera company, and said they were able to access live feeds from 150,000 cameras inside schools, hospitals, gyms, police stations, prisons, offices, and women’s health clinics. Some of the video footage — showing patients in their hospital rooms, for example — was extremely privacy-violating. The company, Verkada, does not merely sell security cameras; it also ...

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Posts

Mar 16, 2021Mar 2021

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Pleonasm PLEE-ə-naz-əm Part of speech: noun Origin: Greek, mid 16th century 1: The use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning (e.g. see with one's eyes), either as a fault of style or for emphasis. Examples of Pleonasm in a sentence...

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News & Links

Mar 16, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/15/2021

Tonight, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM) as Secretary of the Interior Department. An impressive woman in her own right, Haaland embodies the determination of the new administration to use the government for the good of all Americans, rather than for special interests. This makes her a threat to business-as-usual on issues of both race and the economy. Her confirmation vote was 50-41; only four Republicans voted in favor of her appointment. Haaland is ...

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Mar 15, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKTrump’s pandemic Day of Prayer: Nothing fails like prayer - Freedom From Religion Foundation

One year ago today, President Donald Trump declared a national day of prayer to stop the pandemic and called on the country to “pray for God’s healing hand to be placed on the people of our nation.” More than 540,000 Americans died in that interval. That’s more than one American, every minute, for a year. By March 14, 2020, about 57 Americans had died from the coronavirus, according to the World Meters numbers. Exactly one year later, 547,234 Americans are dead. The Johns Hopkins ...

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General & Hellos

Mar 15, 2021Mar 2021

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Today would have been Ruth Bader Ginsburg's birthday. I was also my mother's birthday, she would have been 94 today. And it is my daughter's birthday as well, she is proud to have shared a birthday with RBG, and with her grandmother that she never ...

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News & Links

Mar 15, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/14/2021

By the time most of you will read this it will be March 15, which is too important a day to ignore. As the man who taught me to use a chainsaw said, it is immortalized by Shakespeare’s famous warning: “Cedar! Beware the adze of March!” He put it that way because the importance of March 15 is, of course, that it is the day in 1820 that Maine, the Pine Tree State, joined the Union. Maine statehood had national repercussions. The inhabitants of this northern part of Massachusetts had ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 15, 2021Mar 2021

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Horology hə-RAH-lə-jee Part of speech: noun Origin: Greek, early 19th century 1: The study and measurement of time. 2: The art of making clocks and watches. Examples of Horology in a sentence "Modern technologies, such as atomic clocks, have ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 14, 2021Mar 2021

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Epergne ə-PERN Part of speech: noun Origin: French, early 18th century 1: An ornamental centerpiece for a dining table, typically used for holding fruit or flowers. Examples of Epergne in a sentence "You can find a traditional epergne of ...

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Mar 14, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKAmend: The Fight for America Reminds America of its Promise - TheHumanist.com

“What do you think about when you think of America?” actor Will Smith poses this question at the beginning of his six-part Netflix documentary Amend: The Fight for America (released last month). We hear “This Land is Your Land” sung as we see images of the Statue of Liberty, fireworks, baseball, apple pie, the moon landing, etc. Then we dive into the heart of the series by learning about the history and impact of the Fourteenth Amendment, and how people struggle to be recognized by the ...

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News & Links

Mar 14, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/13/2021

Republican pundits and lawmakers are, once again, warning of an immigration crisis at our southern border. Texas governor Greg Abbott says that if coronavirus spreads further in his state, it will not be because of his order to get rid of masks and business restrictions, but because President Biden is admitting undocumented immigrants who carry the virus. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is also talking up the immigration issue, suggesting (falsely) that the American Rescue Plan would send $1400 of ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 14, 2021Mar 2021

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Pandowdy pan-DOW-dee Part of speech: noun Origin: North American English, mid 19th century 1: A kind of spiced apple pie baked in a deep dish. Examples of Pandowdy in a sentence "Aunt Grace always brings a pandowdy to our annual family ...

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News & Links

Mar 13, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKAHA News: How Grief Rewires the Brain and Can Affect Health – and What to Do About It - Consumer Health News | HealthDay

WEDNESDAY, March 10, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Grief is a common, if not universal, human experience. But that doesn't make it simple. It's psychological, but it affects people physically. It's a matter of science, but scientists who discuss it can sound poetic. Dr. Katherine Shear, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University School of Social Work in New York, calls grief "the form that love takes when someone we love dies." COVID-19 has both brought grief and disrupted ...

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Mar 13, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/12/2021

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus crisis a global pandemic. A year later, almost 30 million of us have been infected with the novel coronavirus, and we have lost more than 530,000 of us to Covid-19. Our economy has buckled. The horror of the past year, exacerbated by the former president’s reluctance to use the government to combat the pandemic, has revealed what seem to be two different camps in America today. On the one hand is a Democratic ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 13, 2021Mar 2021

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Notional NO-shə-nel Part of speech: adjective Origin: Late Middle English, late 16th century 1: Existing only in theory or as a suggestion or idea. 2: Existing only in the imagination. Examples of Notional in a sentence "The contractor ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 12, 2021Mar 2021

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Chinook tshə-NOOK Part of speech: noun Origin: Salish, Unknown 1: A warm dry wind which blows down the east side of the Rocky Mountains at the end of winter. 2: A large North Pacific salmon that is an important commercial food fish. Examples ...

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News & Links

Mar 12, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKObamacare’s About to Get a Lot More Affordable. These Maps Show How.

For this year and next, the stimulus bill boosts subsidies for nearly all those buying their own coverage, making insurance free for more people and giving higher-income people discounts for the first time. The American Rescue Plan broadens the subsidies available under the Affordable Care Act for comprehensive health insurance — increasing them for people who are already eligible, and providing new assistance for people with incomes previously too high to qualify. The top set of maps, ...

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Mar 11, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKFor Democracy to Stay, The Filibuster Must Go

What happens when the biggest election reform in half a century runs into one of the most formidable barriers to American governance? March , 2021 It is hard to imagine a more fitting job for Congress than for members to join together to pass a broadly popular law that makes democracy safer, stronger and more accessible to all Americans. Last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1. The , a similar version of which the House passed in 2019, is a comprehensive and desperately ...

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Mar 11, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/10/2021

Today was a big day for the United States of America. The House of Representatives passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, accepting the changes to the measure that the Senate had added. This bill marks a sea change in our government. Rather than focusing on dismantling the federal government and turning individuals loose to act as they wish, Congress has returned to the principles of the nation before 1981, using the federal government to support ordinary Americans. With its expansion...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 11, 2021Mar 2021

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Pictograph PIK-tə-graf Part of speech: noun Origin: Latin, mid 19th century 1: A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, with examples discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000...

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Mar 11, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKWill There Be a Trump Presidential Library? Don’t Count On It. - POLITICO

For months, as the end of Donald Trump’s term approached, historians and journalists have been playing a speculation game: What will Donald Trump’s presidential library be like? “A shrine to his ego,” predicted a historian in the Washington Post. Others imagine a theme park, or a “full MAGA” exercise in rebranding his presidency. One report said he’s trying to raise an astonishing $2 billion to build it. Here’s another, more likely possibility: There won’t be one. ...

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Mar 11, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKMaryland Musician Who Converts White Supremacists Reflects on Capitol Riot – NBC4 Washington

"They think their world is coming to an end, they're being erased," Daryl Davis said. "That's why they came to the Capitol." Daryl Davis' home is filled with music and memories of playing with rock 'n' roll royalty such as Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. But Davis' home is also filled with Ku Klux Klan robes and other memories of his nearly 40 years of working to convince white supremacists to renounce racism. Davis has helped to convert more than 200 former white supremacists, ...

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Mar 11, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKWhite nationalists use Christian symbols to send messages to racists

WASHINGTON – A screaming man with his fist raised, a Byzantine cross emblazoned in red on his T-shirt. A white flag with a lone green pine tree and the words "An Appeal to Heaven" fluttering over the angry crowd. The Christian flag whipping in the wind from a parked pickup. Those images on display at the Jan. 5-6 rally and riot in Washington, D.C., have raised concerns that some of former President Donald Trump's most ardent and dangerous supporters, including groups such as the Proud Boys,...

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Mar 11, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKThe Confederacy was a con job on whites. And still is.

By Frank Hyman I’ve lived 55 years in the South, and I grew up liking the Confederate flag. I haven’t flown one for many decades, but for a reason that might surprise you. I know the South well. We lived wherever the Marine Corps stationed my father: Georgia, Virginia, the Carolinas. As a child, my favorite uncle wasn’t in the military, but he did pack a . 45 caliber Thompson submachine gun in his trunk. He was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan. Despite my role models, as a kid I was an ...

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Mar 10, 2021Mar 2021

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LINK I’ve lived 55 years in the South, and I grew up liking the Confederate flag. I haven’t flown one for many decades, but for a reason that might surprise you. I know the South well. We lived wherever the Marine Corps stationed ...

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Mar 10, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKDem House Member Publishes Evidence Against GOP Colleagues - News & Guts Media

Rep. Zoe Lofgren has the receipts. Late last month, the California Democrat released a 1,939 page report documenting the public statements and social media posts of Republican House members who voted against certifying the 2020 presidential election. In a foreword to the report, Rep. Lofgren explained that it may lay the groundwork for possible disciplinary action against some of her GOP colleagues, including expulsion from Congress: Like former President Trump, any elected Member of ...

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Mar 10, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/09/2021

The only big thing I see today is that Bob Smietana of the Religion News Service broke the story that evangelical Beth Moore, a hugely popular leader, has left the Southern Baptist Church. A survivor of sexual assault, Moore objected to her denomination’s support for Trump in light of the Access Hollywood tapes in which he boasted of sexual assault. She has increasingly parted ways with church leaders and now has announced that she is leaving the denomination. Her departure could lead a number...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 10, 2021Mar 2021

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Cynosure SY-nə-shur Part of speech: noun Origin: French, late 16th century 1: A person or thing that is the center of attention or admiration. Examples of Cynosure in a sentence "The prince was the cynosure of the coronation." "The song ...

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Mar 9, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKStudy investigates American atheists’ stigmatization, psychological well-being | CYFS | Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools | University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The religiously unaffiliated, including atheists, are the fastest-growing (non)religious population in the United States. But the social stigma associated with atheism leaves this population vulnerable to isolation and poor mental health outcomes. Dena Abbott, assistant professor of counseling psychology, is using a one-year Research Council grant to investigate the psychological well-being of two groups of atheists — rural-residing and woman-identified atheists — in the context of ...

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Mar 9, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/08/2021

Lots of stuff simmering, but nothing you can’t miss if you want to take a break from the news today. There are two stories I’m following. The first is the fight between former president Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC). Last Friday, Trump’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to the RNC, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee—the three biggest Republican fundraising bodies—demanding they stop using his...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 9, 2021Mar 2021

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Limn lim Part of speech: verb Origin: Late Middle English, unknown 1: Depict or describe in painting or words. 2: Suffuse or highlight (something) with a bright color or light. Examples of Limn in a sentence "One of her greatest talents as a ...

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Mar 8, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKThe Great Scandal: Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis

“You know what happens when atheists take over—remember Nazi Germany?” Many Christians point to Nazism, alongside Stalinism, to illustrate the perils of atheism in power. At the other extreme, some authors paint the Vatican as Hitler’s eager ally. Meanwhile, the Nazis are generally portrayed as using terror to bend a modern civilization to their agenda; yet we recognize that Hitler was initially popular. Amid these contradictions, where is the truth? A growing body of scholarly ...

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LINKFFRF joins coalition introducing Biden admin. to secular priorities - Freedom From Religion Foundation

A coalition of secular groups that includes the Freedom From Religion Foundation has contacted the Biden administration on behalf of nonreligious Americans. FFRF and 18 other secular advocacy organizations have sent a letter to the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships with an agenda to advance the interests of nontheists. As our nation begins to recover from the enormous damage that the Trump administration inflicted on religious freedom and the separation of religion and ...

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Mar 8, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/07/2021

Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white. So, in 1963, Black organizers in the Dallas County Voters League launched a drive to get Black voters in Selma registered. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a prominent civil rights organization, joined them. In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, but it did not adequately address the problem of voter suppression. In ...

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Mar 8, 2021Mar 2021

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Ethos EE-thas Part of speech: noun Origin: Latin, mid 19th century 1: The characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations. Examples of Ethos in a sentence "The party wholeheartedly embraced ...

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Mar 7, 2021Mar 2021

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Ailurophile aye-LOO-rə-fayhl Part of speech: noun Origin: Greek, early 20th century 1: A cat lover. Examples of Ailurophile in a sentence "She must be an ailurophile after fostering cats for 15 years." "Even though I only have dogs, I'm an ...

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Mar 7, 2021Mar 2021

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Nobby NAH-bee Part of speech: adjective Origin: Unknown, late 17th century 1: Describing a person of wealth or high social position. Examples of Nobby in a sentence "When he wasn’t saving lives as Batman, Bruce Wayne lived a nobby lifestyle ...

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Mar 7, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKOpinion | Living in Texas right now feels like an exercise in survival - The Washington Post

DALLAS — As spring makes inroads down here in North Texas, the impending reopening of the state feels ominously like a death trap. At a Mexican restaurant in Lubbock this week, Gov. Greg Abbott (R)proclaimed that he would issue an executive order to open Texas up “100 percent” starting next week — including, as he told a cheering crowd, ending a statewide mask mandate. “People and businesses don’t need the state telling them how to operate,” he said. It was ironic that Abbott...

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Mar 6, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 03/06/2021

Today, after almost 24 hours of debate, the Senate passed the American Rescue Plan, designed to help America rebuild after the scorched-earth devastation of the coronavirus pandemic. The vote was 50 to 49, with all the Democrats voting yes and all the Republicans voting no. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) had to leave the vote to attend his father-in-law’s funeral (and, frankly, while I try not to editorialize here, more power to him for choosing his family at this moment), but would have voted...

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Mar 6, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKSurvey: Atheists Are More Likely to Get Vaccinated Than Any Religious Group | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos

According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center, atheists are more likely to get the COVID vaccine than any other religious demographic. White evangelicals, as usual, trail everybody else. 90% of atheists — not “Nones,” but atheists specifically — say they will “definitely” or “probably” get a vaccine or that they’ve already received one shot. On the other end of the spectrum, only 54% of white evangelicals say the same thing. 10% of atheists say they have no ...

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Mar 6, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKTrump sends cease-and-desist letters to GOP campaign committees

The former president has asked the committees, including the RNC, to stop using his name and likeness in fundraising appeals, a Trump adviser said. WASHINGTON — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump sent cease-and-desist letters Friday to three Republican organizations asking them to stop using the former president's name and likeness in fundraising appeals and merchandise, a Trump adviser said Saturday. The letters were sent to the Republican National Committee, the National ...

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LINKRepublicans are getting tired of Marjorie Taylor Greene's stunts

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attempted again on Wednesday to send the entire House of Representatives home without legislating. But unlike the two times she tried the legislative maneuver last week, she now appears to have ticked off a number of her GOP colleagues. At about 9:30 in the morning — before the House could complete consideration of the For the People Act of 2021, a package of voting and election reforms, or the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 — Greene made a...

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Mar 6, 2021Mar 2021

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Kvell k(ə)vel Part of speech: verb Origin: Yiddish, 1960s 1: Feel happy and proud. Examples of Kvell in a sentence "The best part of award shows is seeing recipients’ families kvelling over their success." "Even as conversations quieted, ...

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LINKLetters From An American 03/05/2021

In coronavirus news today, there were a record 2.4 million vaccines administered. Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) is denying any involvement in a vaccine drive in a private, gated community after which a resident of the community, former Illinois governor Bruce Rauner (R), made a donation of $250,000 to the Friends of Ron DeSantis Political Action Committee. This appears to be part of a pattern in Florida, where vaccine administration seems to track with wealthy communities whose members ...

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Mar 5, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKIs America a Christian nation? Pastors at odds about fusion of faith and politics

Watch the CBSN Originals documentary "The Right's Fight to Make America a Christian Nation" in the video player above. It premieres on CBSN Sunday, March 7, at 8 p.m., 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. ET. Outside the Capitol insurrection in January, a group of protesters carried a large wooden cross and a flag flew reading "Jesus is My Savior, Trump is My President." Some in the crowd embraced Christian nationalism, an ideology that combines Christian and American identities and promotes ...

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Mar 5, 2021Mar 2021

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Empyrean em-PIR-ee-ən Part of speech: adjective Origin: Greek, mid 17th century 1: Relating to heaven or the sky. Examples of Empyrean in a sentence "The astronauts were awed by the empyrean domain outside their window." "While the ...

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LINKLetters From An American 03/04/2021

This afternoon, the Senate voted to take up the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan recently passed by the House. The vote was 51 to 50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. Republicans have vowed to slow the passage of the bill. As soon as it passed, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) insisted on having all 628 pages of the bill read aloud, which the Senate clerks are currently doing at a rapid clip to a chamber that emptied of everyone but the presiding Senator (a ...

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Mar 4, 2021Mar 2021

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LINK5 takeaways from Dr. Fauci's Chicago COVID talk - Chicago Tribune

Here are five takeaways from the remarks by Fauci, who is the government’s top infectious disease expert, heading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: 1. Vaccinated people should still be cautious “The instinct is to say, ‘We have a really good vaccine, I’m vaccinated, I have a 95% effective vaccine, why can’t I do whatever I want to do?’,” Fauci said. “Ultimately, you may be able to do that but not right now because there are things we don’t know.”...

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LINKLetters From An American 03/03/2021

We’re in this weird eddy where Republicans are trying to cling to past politics to gain advantage and the Biden administration is trying to move forward. On top of this struggle are stories about how the previous administration pushed the boundaries of our laws or, worse, broke them. Yesterday, two Republican governors, Greg Abbott of Texas and Tate Reeves of Mississippi, ended the mask mandates and other coronavirus restrictions for their states. So far today, the Johns Hopkins University ...

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Mar 4, 2021Mar 2021

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Moppet MAH-pət Part of speech: noun Origin: Unknown, early 20th century 1: A small endearingly sweet child. Examples of Moppet in a sentence "Carl is the father of three adorable moppets." "My brother is six feet tall now, but he used to be ...

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Mar 3, 2021Mar 2021

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Ineluctable in-ə-LEK-tə-bəl Part of speech: adjective Origin: Latin, early 17th century 1: Unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable. Examples of Ineluctable in a sentence "We need to acknowledge that change is ineluctable." "The logs...

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LINKLetters From An American 03/02/2021

Three big stories today: The first is that President Biden announced today that Merck, the pharmaceutical company, will pitch in to help make the Johnson & Johnson single-shot coronavirus vaccine. Along with high production rates from the other manufacturers, this should enable the government to produce vaccines for all U.S. adults—300 million of us-- by the end of May, two months ahead of the previously projected schedule. The administration has facilitated this rate of production by using...

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Mar 2, 2021Mar 2021

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LINKNew Orleans archdiocese urges Catholics to avoid new Johnson & Johnson vaccine

I'm not going to ask which brand I'm getting, I just want to get one and I don't care where the cell lines came from. I don't care what a group of pedophiles think. (RNS) — The Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans has declared the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson “morally compromised” and asked Catholics to avoid it if given the choice, citing concerns about the use of cells with distant ties to abortion “in development and production.” The archdiocese issued the ...

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LINKFFRF attains free speech victory in Alabama - Freedom From Religion Foundation

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has obtained a victory for secularism and free speech in Alabama. An Alabama resident contacted the state/church watchdog after being told that a request for a personalized “S8TAN” plate was “offensive to the peace and dignity of the state of Alabama” and would not be issued. The individual had been given a temporary plate for a couple of months, but then the Motor Vehicle Division in the Alabama Departmen of Revenue sent a letter refusing the ...

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hugmekev1 He just changed his name and came back Made a repeat post of what he did under his previous user name. He was previously kevinhugsme And this was my post about him: Scammer fer sure. ...

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hugmekev1 He just changed his name and came back Made a repeat post of what he did under his previous user name. He was previously kevinhugsme And this was my post about him: Scammer fer sure. ...

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Epexegesis ep-eks-ə-JEE-sis Part of speech: noun Origin: Greek, late 16th century 1: The addition of words to clarify meaning. 2: Words added for the purpose of clarifying meaning. Examples of Epexegesis in a sentence "Seeing that the audience...

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LINKLetters From An American 03/01/2021

This morning, conservative pundit William Kristol wrote in The Bulwark what a number of us have been saying for a while now, and it dovetails cleanly with the current Republican attempt to suppress voting. Kristol warns that our democracy is in crisis. For the first time in our history, we have failed to have a peaceful transfer of power. The Republican Party launched a coup—which fortunately failed—and “now claims that the current administration is illegitimately elected, the result of...

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kevinhugsme Scammer fer sure. He has been PMing lots of gals. Same corny lines. "What can I say , you look so great and captivated my heart with your true smile, there was a time I didn't believe in angels but I do believe that you ...

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kevinhugsme Scammer fer sure. He has been PMing lots of gals. Same corny lines. "What can I say , you look so great and captivated my heart with your true smile, there was a time I didn't believe in angels but I do believe that you ...

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I am unable to block someone in one of my groups. It might be all groups I haven't checked that avenue. When I click to block I get a page that says: This page isn’t working agnostic.com is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500...

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LINKEvangelical Leaders Raise Alarms About Christian Nationalism In Their Ranks : NPR

Even the Xians are concerned about the wackos. A coalition of evangelical Christian leaders is condemning the role of "radicalized Christian nationalism" in feeding the political extremism that led to the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by supporters of former President Donald Trump. In an open letter, more than 100 pastors, ministry and seminary leaders, and other prominent evangelicals express concern about the growing "radicalization" they're seeing, particularly ...

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LINKJudge Tosses Lawsuit Saying Divorce Violates Christian Woman’s Religious Freedom | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos

Everyone needs to congratulate Henry King for finally freeing himself from a wife he’s tried to leave for nearly three decades. In 1993, he first filed for divorce from Lynn King citing “cruel and inhumane treatment.” Because a judge said there wasn’t enough evidence of that, the divorce didn’t go through. Now you might think that trying to get a divorce might be a sign that this marriage is broken… but they chose to stayed married. At least that’s what Lynn wanted. Lynn ...

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LINKLetters From An American 02/28/2021

In the wee hours of Saturday morning, the House of Representatives passed the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill requested by the Biden administration. The vote was 219 to 212, with two Democrats—Jared Golden (D-ME) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR)—voting no. Not a single Republican voted for the bill. The coronavirus relief bill illustrates a crisis in our democracy. This measure is enormously popular. On Thursday, the day before the House took up the bill, a poll...

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Mar 1, 2021Mar 2021

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Nonage NAHN-ij Part of speech: noun Origin: Late Middle English, unknown 1:The period of immaturity or youth. Examples of Nonage in a sentence "The summer I spent working at the park marked my transition from nonage to adulthood." "Monkeys ...

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Redivivus red-ə-VI-vus Part of speech: adjective Origin: Latin, late 16th century 1: Come back to life; reborn. Examples of Redivivus in a sentence "The reenactor was so good at his role that critics said he was George Washington redivivus."...

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