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If not swords to ploughshares, then bicycle chains to key chains

Like a good neighbor, this blog, with a little neighborly push from Jo Chang, connected me to a kindred spirit in Florida. Unshakably Pacific in more ways than one, Kaysie McAlister announces herself as “not Catholic but totally sold on

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Stephen Colbert, Dives and Lazarus: To See or Not to See

Watching Stephen Colbert testify before Congress in the persona of the host of his comic right wing talk show was a bumpily surreal experience. Bumpy because through the incongruity of his testimony delivered with almost unrelieved sarcasm, came real glimpses

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A Pledge to America. . .Or How to Bear False Witness

The easiest way to understand the GOP’s just unveiled Pledge to America is to understand the commandment “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness.”   Apparently John Boehner and his GOP associates do not think their professed stewardship of Christian values includes

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