When one of the world’s largest non-political, non-governmental, human rights organizations criticizes you for your treatment of prisoners, what do you do?
A) Make an attempt to change your practices
B) Defend your position and quietly make changes to maintain credibility around the world.
C) Dismiss the report and criticize the aforementioned organization as “people who hate America.”
If [...]

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Perhaps I should explain a bit about my feelings regarding the latest installment of Star Wars since I seem to have raised a few eyebrows with my comments.
I liked the movie. It was fun to watch, it was made with care, and it filled in the story that was both introduced in 1977 with [...]

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So I write this knowing that several of my hardcore readers won’t get this until the end of the weekend. Eh, I guess it’s no big deal. I write this for me, not others.
Strep throat.
SO over with. I started taking my antibiotics last week, and it wasn’t until a [...]

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I’m absolutely astounded how a week can start off so well and end so poorly.
My week began with my 6-month anniversary dinner with Erika. I chose to take her to Wildwood, a restaurant in NW Portland that I haven’t been to in close to ten years. We had an exceptional dinner, a nice [...]

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You ever have one of those mornings?
I woke up this morning at 5:50 AM on the dot, 10 full minutes before my alarm went off. Of course, in my haze I thought to myself “Wow, I have plenty of time. I don’t need to be up for hours!” Then, naturally, I remembered [...]

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“Don’t Panic” are the words that adorn the cover of the fictional “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” in the eponymous radio series, book, BBC miniseries, video game, and now finally, big screen movie. Admittedly, I read the book probably ten or more years ago and I remembered very little of it save for the [...]

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