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Monday, October 6, 2008 03:37 PM
Original article: John McCain's unprecedentedly ugly speech today

Sometimes you can fight without attacking

Many of us remember this:

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Dignity resonates.

Friday, October 16, 2009 08:12 AM
Original article: Kids' movies that aren't for kids: The top 10

The Adventures of Mark Twain

I count myself very fortunate to have seen the Adventures of Mark Twain a couple of times when I was a kid.

It is a claymation meditation on the tension between religion, history, and mortality.

It was banished from distribution for nearly two decades, imho mostly because of the nightmarish Mysterious Stranger scene.

At age 6, it greatly amplified my incipient cynicism and gave me a little scoot along the secular humanist roller coaster.

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