A Cult of Multiple Personalities
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This time of year, it is not unusual to hear from crowds of Christians bemoaning the current state of Christmas and how secular, and selfish, and generally Christ-deficient it has become.
It is also not unusual to view these people as whiners and spoilsports, out to ruin the fun for everyone else who doesn’t believe exactly as they do.
A perception that is substantially aided by the tone with which they present their case.
Which is generally whiny and obnoxious…
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This is it. The first post of a new year.
At this auspicious juncture, many writers would take the opportunity to look back over the recently expired year and reflect on personal accomplishments, world events, or even sizable bowel movements.
But many writers don’t run this site.
Although several have been known to gaze with desire upon its fearsome might, none have succeeded in wresting the reigns of powers from my adjective-infused grasp…
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This Thursday is the DangerCouch show.
The only DangerCouch show this year.
It is your single opportunity to see, hear, and if you stand sufficiently close to the stage, possibly even smell the passion and plaid that is DangerCouch with your very own senses…
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The Official Memphis Position on Snow and Ice
by Brent on December 20, 2008
in Commentary
When I first moved to Memphis I realized right away that locals and motor vehicles shouldn’t be allowed to mix.
Even under the best of conditions they form unstable compounds, traveling in erratic, unpredictable trajectories which, in some unexplained quantum-mechanical fashion, are able to occupy all possibly lanes of traffic simultaneously, at least until interacting violently with similar neighboring compounds.
The only know method of intensifying this chaotic reaction is to add precipitation…
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