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• The Most Important Vote I'll Make on November 6th

  

  Three weeks from today, I'll be able to vote for my preferred candidate for president of the United States, for my regional congressional representative, for... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2012 SOCIETY

• Saturday Night Live Music: "Find Myself a Sunny Spot"

  It was 1992, in Provo, Utah, and a student newspaper I contributed to, and a feminist club I hung around with, had a joint, great idea for a fundraiser: we'd... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2012 SOCIETY

• Saturday Night Live Music: "Steamroller" and Much More

  I'd never consciously listened to a James Taylor song before the two years I spent in South Korea on a proselytizing mission for the Mormon church from... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2012 SOCIETY

• Mocking Romney's Mormon Self-Sufficiency, and What That Misses

  

  [Cross-posted to By Common Consent] Amy Sullivan has an article on The New Republic's website this morning, calling Mitt Romney "insufferably cheap," and arguin... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2012 SOCIETY

• Cleansing the Altar, and the Anvil Too

  [Cross-posted to By Common Consent]Some interrelated thoughts for today, which is Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday that I kind of wish every year was one of my own. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2012 SOCIETY

• Saturday Night Live Music: "Diamond in the Rough"

  Early Shawn Colvin. Melissa and I saw her do a great show at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC sometime in the late 90s; I wish I could find a recording of that, o... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2012 SOCIETY

• How Mitt Romney Deflated the Mormon Moment

  

  [Cross-posted to By Common Consent] Before we get too far into this week's Democratic National Convention, let me get off my chest something about last week's,... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2012 SOCIETY

• The Kansas GOP Has Thought Itself Out of Another Good Politician

  

  [This is a submission to the Wichita Eagle; we'll see if they take it. Update, 9/7/2012, 1:00pm CST: a shortened version of the article was printed in the... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2012 SOCIETY

• Saturday Night Live Music: "I Hung My Head"

  Melissa and I may never have seen The Police in action (and considering that they came to both Kansas City and Dallas during their reunion tour a few years back... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2012 SOCIETY