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Read more about the article Please don’t forget the adulterers

Please don’t forget the adulterers

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  • Post published:March 14, 2026
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Protip: If you're using The Bible to justify your opposition to same sex marriage, please don't forget to treat all adulterers EXACTLY the same way. God makes it abundantly clear…

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Read more about the article Ultimate Double Feature and more movie magic

Ultimate Double Feature and more movie magic

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  • Post published:March 13, 2026
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Have you heard about the Ultimate Double Feature? This special bit of movie magic hinges on the moment when characters in a movie go to see another movie, and the…

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Read more about the article Behold the Tear Gun!

Behold the Tear Gun!

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  • Post published:March 12, 2026
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Behold! Tear Gun by Taiwanese designer Yi-Fei Chen is a contraption that “collects and freezes actual tears to shoot them back at the person who caused the cry.” It's the…

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Read more about the article My little nonconformist

My little nonconformist

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  • Post published:March 11, 2026
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Ten years ago today, on March 11, 2016, Clara was a seven-year-old girl in second grade, sitting at the table, doing her homework, when this happened: ___________________________________ My daughter had…

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Read more about the article Coincidentalism in Mitsubishi and more

Coincidentalism in Mitsubishi and more

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  • Post published:March 10, 2026
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For all of you fellow Coincidentalists (at last count, there were seven of us): Despite sharing the same name and the same triple-diamond logo, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (cars, rockets, air…

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Read more about the article The Pope is right. I don’t say that very often.

The Pope is right. I don’t say that very often.

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  • Post published:March 9, 2026
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In a closed-door meeting with clergy from the Diocese of Rome late last week, Pope Leo XIV told his priests to resist the “temptation to prepare homilies with artificial intelligence."…

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Read more about the article Say the names

Say the names

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  • Post published:March 8, 2026
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I was recently standing in a hospital lobby when I spotted a wall of plaques listing the hospital's donors and the original executive team — about 100 names altogether. While I…

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Read more about the article Marriage

Marriage

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  • Post published:March 7, 2026
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Philosopher and author Alain de Botton describes marriage this way: “Be incredibly forgiving for the weird behavior that’s going to start coming out. You will be very unhappy in lots…

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Read more about the article Little slices of Death

Little slices of Death

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  • Post published:March 6, 2026
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Years ago, someone sent me this poem. I memorized it instantly, and it drifts through my mind from time to time. "Sleep. Those little slices of Death. How I loathe…

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Read more about the article Free time

Free time

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  • Post published:March 5, 2026
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I love this graphic. The choices we make define who we are. The bottom of that graphic is filled with some pretty awful stuff, yet sadly, it's also some pretty…

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