Concept: It’s Friday. Here is some stilly stuff, therefore.
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Event: My letter to the newspapers.
Dear editors,
Most Americans understand now that health care reform is necessary. Most of us, eighty percent according to some polls, support a public option. The economic analysis and historical precedents have been examined; nobody proposes we go where angels fear to tread.
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Event: My letter to Sen. Dick Durbin.
Dear Senator Durbin,
I am a Michigan transplant who has been living and voting in Chicago for the better part of the last ten years.
I am writing you today about an issue that will supersede in importance the life of the auto industry; this is a bold statement for me to make as many of my family and many friends are or were employed by GM.
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Diary: Should I Call It Platform Surfing?
Sometimes, if I get onto the CTA platform and an outbound train is waiting with no inbound train in sight, I’ll hop on the outbound train and ride north, and catch my train to work further up the line. It’s fun.
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Event: I support the Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid.
At the end of the day, this is a great city, and it is events like these that make cities great. In the late 1800s Chicago suffered a devastating fire that tore it to its foundations, and less than twenty years later, it dreamed up the skyscraper, gave the lake to the public, and invited the world in for the Columbian Exposition.
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Body: Today is Michaelmas.
It is also the feast of the three Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.
You can read more about it here.
One of the wonderful ambiguities of religious tradition is the way that what may seem from the outside to be a simple “symbolic” allegory is, in fact, multivalent and complementary.
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CONCEPT: I’m back.
I was a good, consistent blogger from 2002 to 2007. But ever since I moved back to Chicago, I’ve been more unreliable about it. I’m hoping to return to the blog soon, and I will shortly be making changes to the appearance and content.
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Diary: Things to Inspect and Consider, 2009-2010
These links are for my own use and convenience.
However, you are welcome to use them too, if you like.
EVENTIME
USNO: Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day. BSF:ET – Resource
Sapphire Moon: Solstice and Equinox Finder.
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Year 31: The Year of Somewhere Something.
Navel Gazing:
This has been the fifth cycle of four years since I started giving years names. High school and college made firm the pattern of lumping them into four years (maybe each year approximates a season?) but life events have, for the most part, had an odd way of conforming more or less closely with this.
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Event: My New Letter to Congresswoman Schakowsky.
My renewal of support.
Dear Ms. Schakowsky,
In the last election I voted against you because I didn’t think you had taken as strenuous a stand against funding the war in Iraq as I thought was possible, given the level of support (and strong, progressive support) you’ve enjoyed here in Chicago.
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