Due to circumstances beyond my control, whoever was in charge of compiling this month’s edition has flaked. Totally. Has not posted on his blog since early June. In any event, several regular contributors have come up with the following solution: If you have submitted entries for the recent and now DOA carnival edition, please resend them to Ollysk2 at Gmail dot com. We’re going to have a mini-edition to compensate for the unfortunate flop....
“I started to cry because we so badly want to be able to be protected if something happens to one of us,” Rethmeier said. And that’s precisely what “separate but equal” clauses can’t guarantee. Which is precisely why they’re unconscionable. Which is why a district court judge in Iowa ruled the State’s ban on gay marriages unconstitutional. Which, of course, is why the republicans in Iowa are pushing for a state constitutional amendment: House...
I have a copy of the Tao Te Ching, which I bought years ago, probably after my intro to Philosophy class in high-school. It’s been some time since I read any of it, until today. If you want to be a great leader, you must learn to follow the Tao. Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself. How do I know this is so?...
