Puffin’s Place

Who woulda thunk it…the Mormon Church bustles into California to fund the passage of prop. 8, amending the state’s Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Apparently once having heartily accepted multiple wives for every man, the Mormons have retreated in horror that love might occur between members of the same [...]

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Joe Lieberman has become a total bore in the past decade, but his behavior in this past campaign has been both laughable and frustrating. He trotted after McCain like an amiable puppy, willing to whisper the differences between Shia and Sunni and equally willing to villify Obama and inject scare tactics into a Republican campaign [...]

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Are reading about the Rent-a-Pet programs? Apparently many cities have such programs for people who confuse dogs and cats with handbags and umbrellas.
What sort of people do such programs invite us to be?
I am astounded. Is a dog or cat an item to be displayed on Day X and returned on Day Y? What sort [...]

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• Some scientist or social scientist on NPR a week or so ago—I have been distracted with real life by houseguests for the past week—has startled readers/listeners with his profound research which suggests children have a proclivity for religion because they instinctively seek answers and reasons and order in the universe.
Guess wot! If anyone read [...]

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Next to having a terrific new president, one of the nicest things is to find a cell phone salesman from Wales who has a gorgeous voice and is appreciated by the Britain’s Got Talent audience and judges.
Check this out. Paul Potts.

What do you think?
Follow his career here.

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• Some of those “failed” firms to which we taxpayers have given billions are, in turn, handing millions over as bonuses to departing administrators? I guess the appropriate mantra is: where Congress lacks the foresight to impose restraint, shame is inoperative.
• The media is treating Sarah Palin as if she is the oracle at Delphi! [...]

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There were days in the past two years that I thought never to be able to write that header.
I expect to know every day and every week that Obama is telling us as much as it is legitimate for us to know. I expect to never wonder what theft-of-freedom is going on at the Naval [...]

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If you’ve not yet visited our President-elect’s new website, change.gov, take a look.
How astonishing is it that we have an incoming pres that has an actual interest in keeping the public informed! There is a place to tell your story in relation to the new administration, apply for a job, read a blog about events, [...]

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Fabo news from the election, One of the many admirable things about Obama’s campaign is that he ran as a man with a vision, not a Black man or Straight man or whatever. The media is busily undoing this leap forward with its endless self-congratulation that we have an African-American president.
If ever the “news” was [...]

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