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Speaking of Words: God as a Word
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I want to look at an ambiguity about God, capitalized, but before that: Where does the word come from? Words that mean “god” are quite different even among the languages of our Indo-European family.
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Distant Dome: Using Government for Partisan Purposes
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White Mountain National Forest website says: “The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.”
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Writing on the Fly: Collecting Fly Rods
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I don’t know how it happened. I woke up one morning and all these amazing fly rods were in my office. They just appeared.
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Radio Free New Hampshire: As He Was Saying
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Jimmy Kimmel made a tasteless joke on his talk show the other night. The head of the FCC got angry and voiced a rash threat.
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Speaking of Words: Let’s Talk Tongue
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A little muscle weighing about three ounces at full size, the tongue has two marvelous talents—it tastes and talks—as well as some subsidiary ones.
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Radio Free New Hampshire: Donald, Adam, George, Carl, Nikolai, and Will
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Renaming our Department of Defense as the Department of War is a signature move for Donald Trump. It costs nothing (stationery supplies notwithstanding), it makes a splash, and it pleases his audience.
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Distant Dome: Legislation Needed For Accountability for Spending Taxpayer Dollars
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The greatly expanded program reached its cap of 10,000 students this school year and will likely reach its new cap next school year at 12,500 students.
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Musing on Cancer, Waiting With Hope
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I was diagnosed in July and now will wait for surgery and treatment. Mercifully, I did not wait too long for a mammogram so my prognosis is good; I’ll wait and see.
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It Bears Repeating – Franklin George and the ‘Other’ Willey House Tragedy
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My mother and father were living in two different places. Not because they didn’t want to live together, but because if Bridgewater College in Massachusetts had found out that she was pregnant with me, she would have been removed from the nursing program.