August 02, 2004
Making MUSH of the Brain
People hold grudges for petty slights. It becomes a game to crash the server. Small minds who have no life of their own become obsessed with capturing the server from you.
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March 07, 2004
Does God Hate Lobster?
Eat not of the Shrimp because it is loved by Your Creator.
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February 26, 2004
The Bible, Passion, and Jewish-Christian Relations
We must ask "Why this Gospel? Why not one of the other three, none of which include the divisive line?
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December 15, 2003
At a Wedding in Santa Cruz, Circa 1985
A relative of the family was imprisoned in the kitchen because he could not walk or talk like the rest of us.
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August 27, 2003
Honesty and Mental Illness
Sometimes a quiet cry in your ear gets louder as it lingers in the mind. A friend said to me the other day: "Why is it that I have to give up my rights to privacy just because I am mentally ill?"
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July 22, 2003
Joel tells a-- well, -- some
"Where did you meet your wife?" people ask. "At a party that I wasn't planning on going to," I say.
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June 11, 2003
Resurrection of the Dead
A and T inadvertently did the cruelest thing I think a person can do to a person without cutting or shooting them. They saw me as another person, T's dead brother who'd killed himself I don't know how many years before.
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May 28, 2003
Saying Yes to a Liar
I did not want to be shaking hands on my wedding day and saying, when they asked what I did, "I'm unemployed".
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May 16, 2003
Blankness Unto Death
A exhausted blankness unto death, worse, it seemed, than anything Kierkegaard had ever imagined.
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April 27, 2003
Like Controlling Rabbits
The statement's like one pregnant rabbit.
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April 21, 2003
The Courage of a Cat
As my wife crouched for the snatch of the cat, Virginia mewed and whimpered. "How," she asked in her feline tongue, "how can you make me eat that stuff?"
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December 18, 2002
The Gura and Others, Revisited
I know I sound extremely selfish right now. So does a starving woman when the subject of food comes up.
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The Gura
I never caught on until later that I was being sized up for two things: the size of my discretionary income and my sexual attractiveness.
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December 15, 2002
Handling a Jerk
Once he paged me to let me know that he was moving to San Jose. "I know where you live," he said.
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August 01, 2002
Views
I'm dying for this park.
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