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Pagans, Social Media and Sanitized Heroes
(For sure, this is no chronicle of Heroes and Heroines, be it action heroes, rescue heroes, firemen heroes, conquering heroes, rebel heroes or David Bowie’s best ever cut — Heroes.) On a recent trip...
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Let Moms be Moms!
DSC_4283 by incurable_hippie (Philippa Willitts), on Flickr. Used with Creative Commons license – Attribution, noncommercial. One day I’ll read something that doesn’t set me off, but it seems this...
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Georges Bériault: Friend, Activist, Teacher, Athlete (1947-2013)
Aside from Georges’ edgy wit and his questioning and incisive mind, I most admire his unbridled delight in creating mischief (with his students, friends, fellow ninjas and of course rightwingers of...
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Holy singularity, time to test Turing.
Why does Keanu Reeves act like a robot? The “singularity” (in its non-mathematical sense at least) is the purported point in time when machines take over the world – Matrix style. Ok, maybe that is a...
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On Religions
It must be a passionate subject since Woody Allen, one of the rare American filmmakers still producing auteur features, has dedicated an entire movie to deal with this issue. I plan to see the film...
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GOLDEN TEMPLE 1947. 1984. 2014
Every summer during school holidays my mother would take us from Indian-administered Kashmir to Ludhiana in Punjab to visit our grandparents. The address still resides within me: ‘30 Civil Street....
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Believing From the Inside Out
The leaves are red, deep red, burgundy, bright yellow, baby green light, crispy brown, dark green, orange mixed with red and yellow. The leaves stick on the windows of cars on the tires and our shoes....
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Grow Up! Old Man!
Banksy in Boston: F̶O̶L̶L̶O̶W̶ ̶Y̶O̶U̶R̶ ̶D̶R̶E̶A̶M̶S̶ CANCELLED, Essex St, Chinatown, Boston. Credit: Chris Devers. Uploaded from Flickr and used under Creative Commons – Attribution, NonCommercial,...
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In Context: Writing and Diversity
What will you be making when you make it? I was just in Mexico City. On my “must see” list were Diego Rivera’s murals – as many as I could see in three days’ time. In hindsight, I know that was a...
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Prenatal profiling: not on my daughter’s life!
Title: World Down Syndrome Day 2015- Here I Am Photo Exhibition Upper Courtyard Dublin Castle REF-102700 Credit: William Murphy. Uploaded from Flickr and used under Creative Commons – Attribution,...
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