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What would it sound like if Bon Iver covered Bon Jovi?

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High speed camera test. I love watching stuff like this.

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posted 1 / 10 / 2012
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25)
  1. Bon Iver (22)
  2. Over the Rhine (13)
  3. Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors (11)
  4. Shawn Colvin (11)
  5. The MacQueens (10)

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posted 12 / 29 / 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18)
  1. Celtic Christmas (72)
  2. Take 6 (43)
  3. Shawn Colvin (34)
  4. Vince Guaraldi Trio (32)
  5. Folk Angel (26)

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posted 12 / 19 / 2011
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Jennifer Fulwiler Explains Her Conversion From Atheism to Catholicism

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An Excerpt: If everything that we call heroism and glory, and all the significance of all great human achievements, can be reduced to some neurons firing in the human brain, then it’s all destined to be extinguished at death. And considering that the entire span of homo sapiens’ existence on earth wouldn’t even amount to a blip on the radar screen of a 5-billion-year-old universe, it seemed silly to pretend like the 60-odd-year life of some random organism on one of trillions of planets was something special. (I was a blast at parties.) By simply living my life, I felt like I was living a lie. I acknowledged the truth that life was meaningless, and yet I kept acting as if my own life had meaning, as if all the hope and love and joy I’d experienced was something real, something more than a mirage produced by the chemicals in my brain.

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posted 12 / 14 / 2011
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Why not distinguish between lifestyle problems and catastrophe problems?

Lifestyle poverty comes about when people don’t do four things: Stay sober, stay in school at least through high school graduation, stay out of bed in situations likely to lead to pregnancy or abortion, and stay with a job even if it lacks thrills. When people don’t follow these basics, the result is often alcoholism and addiction, single parenting, and lack of the skills or perseverance needed to get and hold a job.

Lifestyle poverty arises out of messy lives, and sending a government check does nothing to clean up the mess. That’s different from catastrophe poverty: A plant closes, a person is injured, or—right now—a person is laid off when recession begins and doesn’t get new opportunities, as economic blight drags on year after year.

Catastrophe poverty is not like lifestyle poverty. Those who suffer through catastrophe poverty are often work-oriented. They have not fallen into joblessness: Situations beyond their control have pushed them into it. They may need financial help to bridge the gap until they are ready and able to work again, but their values do not need realignment.

With lifestyle poverty, though, a government check can hurt rather than help, because it may just further a non-work psychology. Those sunk into lifestyle poverty need challenging, personal, and spiritual help, rather than cold, enabling, entitling, by-the-numbers bureaucratic aid. We should not treat them the way we treat pet dogs: In the morning put some food and water in their bowls, and in the evening take them out for walks.
Marvin Olasky
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posted 12 / 14 / 2011
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My Time at Walmart: Why We Need Serious Welfare Reform
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posted 12 / 14 / 2011
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Obama’s campaign for class resentment

This sums up most of what is disastrous about the Obama Administration. I hope this destructive demagogue doesn’t get a second term.

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posted 12 / 13 / 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11)
  1. Over The Rhine (36)
  2. Enya (24)
  3. Vince Guaraldi Trio (17)
  4. Mindy Smith (11)
  5. Bonn Classical Philharmonic and Heribert Beissel (10)

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posted 12 / 13 / 2011
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Guilty!

Guilty!

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posted 12 / 10 / 2011
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THIS.

THIS.

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4)
  1. So Elated (60)
  2. Michael W. Smith (53)
  3. CPLS Madrigals (16)
  4. Mindy Smith (16)
  5. Chris Rice (14)

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posted 12 / 7 / 2011
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