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10/04/10--23:00: The Pool Guy (chan 1589680)

Recently I have put my mind to acknowledging miracles and looking for them in every day life. The average reader will assume I’m doing this because I’m prone to believe in miracles and they would be wrong. I look for them because I’m prone not believe in them. It’s sort of like how I read [...]


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11/03/10--08:50: The Land of Opportunity (chan 1589680)

I love that my country is known throughout the world as the land of opportunity. That’s not just a statement about making money. You can’t have opportunity in a corrupt, third world hell hole with no right to property, a right to fail, or a right to succeed. It is protected by the will of [...]


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12/21/10--09:46: The God Bomb (chan 1589680)

I love Christmas. That said, the presents are a bit of a burden. Who to buy for? What to buy? And all of that waste. I get presents that I don’t particularly need or enjoy. But the spirit of the holiday still comes through and I love it. God is a radical story teller. He’s [...]


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12/24/10--23:55: Letter to Santa (chan 1589680)

My daughter will be 9 in a couple of days and her belief in Santa is at its end. She’s trying hard to believe but common sense, and her younger brother Ed [(6) who saw right through Santa from the beginning] have undermined her unjustified belief. She wrote this tender letter and left it for [...]


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01/01/11--22:46: Relativist Dictators (chan 1589680)

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger coined a phrase in 2005 that I’ve thought about almost every day since he gave his address in Rome, just before he became The Pope. He said that we were moving toward a “dictatorship of relativism.” The reason why that phrase struck the gong of my mind is because something wasn’t adding [...]


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01/02/11--22:29: Truth Doesn’t Evolve (chan 1589680)

No value is true today that wasn’t true one thousand years ago. It’s wrong to murder now, and nothing about the way the universe progresses can make murder right. If enslaving a man for the color of his skin is wrong today, then it was wrong 200 years ago and will be just as wrong [...]


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02/09/11--21:20: Four Comments Written in 30 Minutes (chan 1589680)

This guy forgot to mention the Salem Witch Trials and Hitler being a Catholic: #1 Submitted on 2011/02/09 at 8:18 pm I agree truth doesn’t evolve. But the subjects you talk about there are always exceptions to. We consume life, animals and plants to live and so do they. It’s perfectly fine to murder someone [...]


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04/24/11--19:27: Come see me in Washington D.C. on World Intellectual Property Day! (chan 1589680)

I’m on a panel this Tuesday the 26th talking about making a living on creating properties: LINK Many don’t understand the legal underpinnings of what I do to make a living. I come up with something, I sell it to another party. But why can’t some employer just say, “That’s a good idea, I’ll take [...]


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10/04/11--10:04: To Uplift Souls (chan 1589680)

My pal Cliff Cramp’s answer to the question, “What is the purpose of art?” The artist is the first member of his own audience. Before I show anything, before I even make anything, the artwork is in my mind. Most artists work in solitude, so our work is seen by us first. Then it might [...]


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10/12/11--08:26: Art Clokey and Mass Media (chan 1589680)

Art Clokey would have been 90 years old today, he passed away two years ago. Art was one of the guys I modeled my own career after since he created my favorite childhood character GUMBY. Now my most common comment I get from fans is that they were raised on Earthworm Jim. I understand that [...]


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