Daily Archives: May 21, 2007

Mayor Dave and Falun Gong

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 21, 2007

My first exposure to Falun Gong was through my ex-mother-in-law, a Naval officer’s widow living in San Diego, a woman  with a history of heroic meddlesomeness going back to the early sixties when she helped smuggle people out of Cuba to the US via Mexico.  In the seventies she came down with cancer, and for [...]

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Bishop Spong?

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 21, 2007

Don’t even ask how I ended up at this quiz. Also don’t ask why I bothered to take it. I don’t believe in god beyond acknowledgment that it — “god,” that is — is a useful metaphor. I’ll go so far as to say that “god” is as substantial as the square root of minus [...]

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Winston on Navel Gazing

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 21, 2007

Celebrating two years blogging, Winston has begun an exercise he calls “Five Steps to Better Navel Gazing.” About blogging he says, We are guinea pigs in a gigantic communications laboratory. Sentient, sagacious guinea pigs who are designing and shaping and modifying the experiment and rebuilding the laboratory on the fly. [tags]nobody asked, winston[/tags]

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