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Tread lightly on the things of earth

Mike’s weblog about computing, politics, and faith (a progressive view)

Tags: , , , , , , , The dream: Right things done right

I think invading Iraq has always been a wrong thing done wrong. Now how do we move toward the “right thing done right” quadrant?

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Tags: , , , , , , Methodist Social Affirmation: The kingdom that could be

Today I attended the small-town United Methodist church I grew up in and was struck on hearing the World Methodist Council Social Affirmation for the first time.

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Tags: , , , , Happy Daily Kos birthday (a blog time-machine reminiscence)

Markos’ first post at Daily Kos is dated May 26, 2002. What was I blogging about on that date?

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Tags: , , , , , , , Darth Dubya? Or a New Hope? (a Star Wars homily to myself)

DonBinTN speaks to Republicans’ concern that Star Wars too closely parallels the Bush Administration. Then I run with the idea, myself.

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Tags: , , , Textpattern: Previewing Markdown in MarsEdit, Ecto2

For Textpattern blogs, I find Markdown formatting preview joy in both MarsEdit and Ecto2.

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Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Powers corrupt (or, the lash of the dragon’s tail)

Friday’s news that “in 96 hours of fighting and ambushes in far western Iraq, [this Marine] squad had ceased to be” hoists my ass once more onto the [theological] soapbox.

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