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The Duty to Vote – by Simon

2 January 2012

I’ve been thinking about this commentary by “Simon” of Bahama Pundit (and the Nassau Guardian): To refuse to vote is a decision.  It shows a level of disdain and contempt for our democratic system.  There is certain arrogance to those who feel that voting is beneath them and that they won’t participate in electing “those [...]

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Evangelicals Looking Beyond a Literal Interpretation of Genesis?

14 August 2011

According to the Bible (Genesis 2:7), this is how humanity began: “The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” God then called the man Adam, and later created Eve from Adam’s rib.Polls by Gallup and the Pew [...]

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Gilbert Morris on Blackness & The Presumptions of Ultimate Power

28 November 2010

This is an interesting thesis, to say the least. I want to reject it outright, but I am not sure I can. I can certainly see evidence of what Morris is talking about in the case of our own turn-of-the-century leaders; there is a core lack of confidence in the ability—or is it the right?—of [...]

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Solar highways.

3 September 2010

This is so cool I had to post it to all my blogs, tweet it, and facebook it (is to facebook a verb yet?) I am so frustrated that here in the Caribbean where God has bathed us in sunshine we keep waiting for northerners to tell us what to do with it. Why can’t [...]

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Reimagining oneself: possible, and profitable

19 July 2010

Came across this in my reading and thought not of the change in Durham, SC itself, but in the attitude and the social structure that wrought that change. We are trying something similar here with the various attempts at rejuvenating downtown, but we aren’t thinking big enough. To start, we need a municipality to govern [...]

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People who live in glass offices

20 June 2010

So last night I was watching TV—a British show called Hustle which is a very well-made, complex-charactered, witty cousin of the TNT show Leverage—Hustle came first, and I can see no acknowledgement in the official record of the connection between the two, but come on now—and at one point (not for the first time) the [...]

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The Gaulin Wife: Making Connections

29 January 2010

This is not the crux of Helen’s post, but I chose it to inspire people to want to read the whole thing. It’s crucial reading. I have to remind myself to continue making connections, and to look for the triumphant in the stories of disaster, to look for the survivance in them, for the ways [...]

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Womanish Words: Teach the Children Well

29 January 2010

Hear, hear, Lynn. It upsets me when I hear the little children I know and love speaking in the the racist/religious/hateful language of the local Bahamian press/the moneyed elite/the generally ignorant. There are probably more than a million orphan children struggling to get through the day today in Haiti. It is natural for children to [...]

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How not to lead a nation

16 January 2010

Before I post this, let me say two things. First, I have been informed by a reliable source (one of the editors) that the Tribune was not responsible for writing the article whose headline I slammed; it was an AP story that they re-ran as the lead. And second, I am trusting that by reposting [...]

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On Stilton Cheese & Culture Change (a little anthropology for Christmas)

23 December 2009

I want you to check this out. The history of Stilton can be traced back to the early 18th century and although it is clear that the recipe used has changed quite dramatically over the years it remains one of the world’s best known and much loved cheeses. Quintessentially English, Stilton has its own Certification Trade [...]

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