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When I was a young Army officer, we had a sarcastic saying to describe a troublesome, unavoidable, and possibly career-suicide assignment: “it’s an opportunity to excel.”
Up to now, Senator Barack Obama’s campaign has been pretty good at dealing with a barrage of hypocritical accusations. Thanks to the right-wing noise machine and their [...]

One thing that has always fascinated me about the LDS Church is the concept of apostasy in the context of revivalist America.

After the deaths of the Savior and His Apostles, men corrupted the principles of the gospel and made unauthorized changes in Church organization and priesthood ordinances. Because of this widespread apostasy, the Lord withdrew [...]

Of course that’s the headline many of us disenfranchised citizens would have liked to have seen after Democrats finally stood up to Bush and the telecommunication giants, AT & T and Verizon for ignoring the FISA law and illegally wiretapping American citizens. I wouldn’t count on any present day media outlet portraying the Democrats [...]

I’ve read about it a number of times but I don’t know that I’ve ever blogged about it.
The It in question is the Challenger study by the very bright Ulric Neisser.
Neisser, who is a scholar specializing in memory, had his students in 1986 record their memories of the Challenger explosion - he asked them to [...]

Your mortgage interest rate is contractually defined, as is your car payment.  They have defined late charges if you are late or miss a payment. Generally, the charges, fees and rates on such loans are easily understood and clearly defined. Same goes for student loans.
Where the credit systems gets confusing and [...]

Today is the third day of the four-day Winter Soldier II hearings. As you can tell by reading the daily newspapers and watching CNN, MSNBC and other so-called news channels, there has been a near-total blackout in the major media. The Washington Post ran a story today, but it was buried in the [...]

The hardest thing about being a Democrat these days is that people are always saying there’s no difference between the two major parties in this country of ours. If you say you’re mad at the Republicans for making a mockery of the constitution and giving their illegitimate and foolish “president” the authority to lie us [...]

Do not underestimate Senator John McCain. His candidacy ought to have ended with his embarrassing stroll through the Baghdad Thieves’ Market almost a year ago. Or when he followed that up by singing the chorus of “Bomb Iran.” Or when he told us about his plan to occupy Iraq for 100 [...]

The discussion about modesty and sexuality has me thinking about the complicated ways in which male anxiety - specifically about sexuality - plays itself out. Calls for modesty and events chastity balls are often called for in general terms but directed at women in practice; they are equally often called for in specifically gendered [...]

At least once a week, a coworker, vendor or customer says to me, “Oh you’re so lucky to work upstairs with all the women.”  The first time it happened, I was taken aback.  It had never occurred to me think working with women was in any way different than working with men. 
However, it has become [...]

Yesterday Bush booted CENTCOM Commander Admiral Fallon for refusing to assist in the distruction of American and The World. Today, we have already forgotten, thanks in part to Dick4brains Spitzer.
Does this man look like a traitor? Where is Sean Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, George Will, or that Daddy’s girl William (Wanker) Kristol? What [...]

From PBS NewsHour last night: Nir Rosen, one of the most astute observers of the Iraq occupation, insurgency and civil war, debated Fred Kagan, the neocon architect of Bush’s so-called “surge.” Kagan is so invested in Bush administration propaganda that he won’t even admit that Iraq is under U.S. occupation. [...]