Let us see,; where has the meter moved recently?  The Good Doctor will take three examples for contemplation, two of which occurred on what is typically considered Sanctuary, the grounds of a church.
In July of 2008 in Knoxville, TN. Jim David Adkinson, driven by what he considered to be the Liberalism of the Unitarian Universalist faith, [...]

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During his time in office, in 1982, Ronald Reagan famously predicted “we might see Armageddon in our life time.” Of course, he also said, “facts are a stupid thing”; so one may take his utterances within some context.
So it comes as no surprise that ‘The Great Communicator’ had his finger on the public’s pulse concerning [...]

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Ah, entitlement!  What a comfy world it is to live in.  I have in-laws and step daughters, who I dearly love, who complain about the entitlement programs of welfare, and not without justification.  An examination of British and American welfare societies may well demonstrate the inherent flaws of a system which does not provide equity [...]

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The Good Doctor has, in a previous post, commented on the rise of the Rethuglican Party (or, as its hapless chairman might call it  - “Part-tay!”).
This encephalitic pin-headed mutant is scion of a once honorable and noble political and economic philosophy which once encompassed intellectuals like William Buckley, economists like Milton Friedman, and honest to [...]

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Having finally retrieved my computer from having the bad muther (shut yo mouth) But I’m just talking about my motherboard (We can dig it) replaced, I can once again provide  intellectual fanfare such as this

Ain’t technology wunnerful?
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Seven hundred years ago recycling was just as much a rage as the practice is now.  One day a monk cut up some old papyrus scraps and dutifully copied his prayer book into the reconstituted volume. One hundred years ago in Constantinople (“Been a long time gone, Constantinople; Now it’s Turkish Delight on a moonlit [...]

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In the mad rush to simultaneously prepare for and ignore President’s Day (“President’s day, president’s day; the mad scientist grafts a two headed President of Lowest APR and Mattress Discounters“) I missed Nirvana Day .
As chance would happen, perhaps because yesterday was Nirvana Day, it did provide some measure of resonant contemplation of that teaching [...]

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In recent days, we, the teeming masses in general (and The Good Doctor in particular), have been subjected to revisionist histories concerning everything from whether the Holocaust actually took place to broad statements asserting that the Depression was not only continued by the policies of FDR’s New Deal, it was caused by them (A contrasting [...]

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So there you are, teeming masses.  Your 401K has the value of a box of Special K, your house might bring in the price of a Malibu Barbie condo on Ebay, and your job, if you still have one, has just shown up on the latest Endangered Species update, just behind amphibians in general and [...]

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First, let me state for the record (as long as it is written in invisible ink) that The Good Doctor never intended for the money my corporation, Bleedem, Drye, and Howe, was anticipating from the Fed bailout to be used for an all expense paid junket to Amsterdam and Thailand, where our hard working employees [...]

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