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Civility

Jonathan Storment — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:07:22 +0000

This weekend, for the first time since an assasination attempt occurred on Ronald Reagan, an elected official was fired at. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was out at a local Safeway doing a kind of meet and greet with her constituents, when a man armed with a Semi-automatic approached her shooting point-blanke at her head…and then fired [...]

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Communitas

Jonathan Storment — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:28:22 +0000

I’ve written on this blog before about Robert Putnam’s work in his book “Bowling Alone.” He makes the observation that has been cited by hundreds of different authors and speakers that while bowling as a whole is on the rise, bowling league participation is drastically reduced. That is more people are bowling, but they are bowling [...]

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A Gentle Subversion

Jonathan Storment — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:10:46 +0000

I took this picture on our trip to Ephesus a few years ago. Since then it has made the regular rotation for my desktop image, I’ve even talked about on this blog before. I’ve found myself somewhat haunted by it. And here’s why. This is an underground first or second century symbol. It stands for [...]

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