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Dean Kirkland

To Try a New Sword on a Chance Wayfarer

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This blog, a crossroads. My words, a sword. You, a chance wayfarer.

Because you never find random foreign money in used Kindle editions of The Canterbury Tales.

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US drone attacks target rescuers and mourners. One town's war on gay teens.

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The Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure (the pink ribbon breast cancer foundation) has decided to put abortion politics ahead of women's health.

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It's time for the Brodies again. The Brodies, if you don't know, are internet awards for the (mainly) ex/post/former/recovering/New Order/struggling/etc Mormon side of teh interwebs. I'm

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Today is my birthday. Also born on January 31: Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1543, the first Tokugawa shogun Franz Schubert, 1797, Austrian composer Zane Grey, 1872, American writer Jackie Robinson, 1919, American baseball player Norman Mailer, 1923, American writer

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This plant is growing in the backyard of my new house.

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A boxful of failure

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Ron Paul invokes Golden Rule, Republicans boo. Romney straps worker to roof of ca

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The LDS (Mormon) church's attitude towards pornography worked well enough before the internet. Pornography was a Very Big Deal. It was Evil. It was also kind of rare and exotic. It took a certain amount of effort, and the risk of public exposure, to get it. You had to go somewhere and find it, and maybe someone you knew fro

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"Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did."

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This actually happened.

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The only way to get rid of an earworm is to give it to someone else. Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk And said goodbye to the circus Off she went with a trumpety-trump Trump, trump, trump

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After many months, I see that she still works there. And that I'm still old. Follow me on Twitter Friend me on Facebook

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An innocent man who was detained (and tortured, of course) at Guantánamo Bay for seven and a half years.

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I actually start a lot of posts that I don't finish for one reason or another. Many of them I integrate with other, related, posts, but some I don't finish at all. These are some of their titles. If any of them sound interesting, maybe I'll finish them if you ask me nicely. ;) Conversion and deconvers

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(This post includes an image that may not be safe for work/children/prudes.) Fourteen-year-old American citizen deported to Colombia. "America’s Foreign Policy Community is now dropping the p

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Road rage seething, I don't shoot the motherfucker, I write poetry. Follow me on Twitter Friend me on Facebook

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My favorite posts from 2011 include: In which I discover infinite regress in a cake, Di

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This is kind of eerie: "Above all, [Romney] looked like a President. Handsome, silver-haired, robust, masculine, smiling or stern, he seemed cast for the part by Hollywood's Central Casting. Correspondents who liked him called him 'Mr. Straight Arrow;' those whose flesh crawled at his pieties called him 'Mr. Square,' or wor

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Happy New Year, users of the Gregorian calendar! Happy 11th day after winter solstice, everyone else! Follow me on Twitter Friend me on Facebook

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Wall Street has destroyed the wonder that was America. Isr

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Easy in your big-ass truck to flip off a Honda Try it to my face Follow me on Twitter Friend me on Facebook

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The mystery of... The White Tiger

I'm getting ready to move in about three weeks (because I'm buying a house; you'd know this if you friended me on Facebook), and I decided to go through my clothes and donate or throw away everything I don't want anymore. Imagine my surprise when, digging through my closet, I found a shirt I didn't even rememb

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Navigating love and autism. Kicked out at Christmas. What c

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I made up a new word today: Trashenfreude (noun): The feeling of being virtuous that a suburban dweller experiences after trash day when he has put his trash cans away and notices that his neighbors haven't yet. Follow me on Twitter

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"Mack the Knife/Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" Familiar version: Bobby Darin (1959) Original version: Bertolt Brecht (1929) Bonus version: Sting (c. 1995?) I was taught from a young age to dislike Bobby Darin's American version of "

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The middle class is the real job creator. Insanity: six-year-old b

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Happy Thanksgiving, Americans and resident aliens! Happy Thursday, everyone else on this side of the International Dateline! Happy Friday, the rest of you lot! Follow me on Twitter

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Now with more pepper spray! Bullies drive Penn State victim from his high school.

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Anti-gay-marriage group NOM can't convince courts that people saying mean things about them equals "threats, harassment, and reprisals."

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