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Manny Ramirez just got gunned down at the plate on a contact play, and the Israel-Palestinian negotiations are breaking down in predictable ways on The West Wing, and the SwiftVets For Truth (an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one), are spouting off during commercial breaks. This election cannot be over soon enough.
Now 3-0 Sox on [...]

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..and the Sox keep hanging in there. I dislike Pedro Martinez, Headhunting Punk pitcher, but I hate the Yankees even more. I hate everything about their smug dynasty.
It was pledge week at WCBE, the best public radio station in the universe last week, so I was in Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings to answer the [...]

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Once again, I have failed to win either a Nobel Prize or a MacArthur “genius grant.”
You have to admire the chutzpah of someone who, in his early 20s, performs under a stage name taken from a Bob Dylan album, proclaims himself the “bastard son” of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, and then records his debut [...]

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A guest post by Andy Whitman. You may recognize the name if you’re a reader of Paste Magazine. This was posted to an online music and faith discussion list.
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” — Abraham Lincon
What if …What if we, as individuals, as a nation, took Jesus’ command [...]

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Al Petteway and Amy White are this week’s featured artists. Al is a phenomenal guitarist, who blends Celtic and traditional folk guitar influences in a masterful way, and wife Amy is a multi-instrumentalist who also sings. Their brand new CD, Acoustic Journey, celebrates their last ten years of making music with some new tracks, some [...]

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