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Familiar conversations: Are you sleeping?
Beabea: (beside bed) Mama? Are you sleepin? Literata: (facedown in pillow) mmph B: (jumps up on bed) Mama! You sleep?? L: (mumble) I was. B: (climbs up on top of my back) Oh good. Now you ‘wake, you...
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Reflections on cruising
I’m back on terra firma again after a week on a cruise vacation with Spouse and Spouse’s Parents. Not quite home yet, so still somewhat limited in terms of my internet connection, but I’m in the...
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Vote Tea Party
Image courtesy of my spouse. A recent article on Vanity Fair about current issues as a result of economic inequality said: The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant...
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Zombies, tokenism, and greatness
xkcd, a great geeky webcomic, features Zombie Marie Curie in today’s strip. ZMC says she’s tired of being THE token female scientist and spends some time talking about other great women scientists and...
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Dogs are Christians, Cats are Pagans
To restate an old religious joke, dogs are Christians – they believe in you no matter what you do. Cats are Pagans – they want to see the food in the bowl. On an only slightly more serious note, I...
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The Great Cat in the Sky
Hecate recently quoted the new American Poet Laureate: Isn’t that what it’s about – pretending there’s an alert cat who leaves nothing to chance. And all the jokes about Ceiling Cat aside (srsly!),...
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Irene: with continuing updates
Dear all, Spouse and I are putting our final preparations in place. We expect to have no problems riding the storm out, but just in case, I’ll use this post as an information center and will post...
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Contemporary Deities: Eris and Weasel Wicca
I’m going to feature some pieces and guest posts further exploring contemporary deities. If you’ve got one to suggest, please write to me at literatahurley at gmail. One of my favorite examples of a...
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Anti-Pagan bingo
Time for some Friday fun! Image here, text version below. Colored squares are for bonus points: if someone uses both arguments in a particular color, give them a gold star for lack of intellectual...
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Christian Dominionist bingo
More Friday fun with bingo! Click the image for larger size. Bonus points for using both arguments in the same-colored square. Many thanks to Grafton again.Filed under: civil rights, humor Tagged:...
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