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2021-01-07T09:10:19-04:00

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We Should Not Be Surprised

Last updated on: January 7, 2021 at 9:10 am By Anne Kennedy

America this morning, thinking about itself. Well, good morning, probably. This turned out to be a super-duper bad time to decide not to doom scroll. I gave up my resolution in the dark hours and did it anyway. The problem is that I do not watch television and don’t have a working radio and so am stuck, like the rest of the world, going from one news site to another, but who am I kidding, mostly Twitter. In spite of... Read more

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2021-01-06T10:05:26-04:00

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The Doom Scroll In Jesus Name Awoman

Last updated on: January 6, 2021 at 10:05 am By Anne Kennedy

So anyway, I don’t know how to blog without scrolling endlessly through the internet. I have now remembered why it is that I began that bad habit in the first place–for fodder, for stuff to say. I don’t know how to write if I’m not reacting to something, which is a serious drag. In my desperation, therefore, I did go peek at Twitter yesterday because I heard there was lots of freaking out about that prayer in Congress, the one... Read more

The Bad Word Association

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2021-01-05T08:33:20-04:00

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So Yeah, There Is Such A Thing As An Epiphany

Last updated on: January 5, 2021 at 8:33 am By Anne Kennedy

I wasn’t looking for more things to be irritated about–especially with my new resolution to stay as much as possible away from the internet–but somehow I ran across this anyway. It’s an old but ridiculous list of words dictionary dot com didn’t think we should say in 2020. You remember that long lost year where so many things were foolish and unpleasant? Well, if I had seen this then, I would have known it was going to be bad, but... Read more

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2021-01-04T10:40:50-04:00

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Christmas is Basically Over Podcast and Links

Last updated on: January 4, 2021 at 10:40 am By Anne Kennedy

It’s a cold, snowy day here in Bing, and I have to wake all the way up and face my life, which is going to be painful. Nevertheless, we pushed ourselves to do a reasonably lengthed podcast about Matt reading yet another book about Hitler, how I am trying to make peace with the way people talk now, what we liked about our Christmas holiday, and many more heaped up apologies about Nailed It the Kindle Edition (SORRY, still trying... Read more

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2021-01-03T09:15:31-04:00

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Why Do I Call Myself Good?

Last updated on: January 3, 2021 at 9:15 am By Anne Kennedy

I’m still enjoying my last day off and so here is my recent article for the Christian Research Insititute on Virtue Signalling. “‘This century…I say the next 80 years, I think is gonna be the defining period for humanity. Twenty-first century, make humanity great again, the coming of age of humanity,” says Eddy Izzard, pointing a rosy but sharp, well-manicured nail into the camera. He is clad in a somber, dark, feminine suit, and his coiffure — always a perfect... Read more

Signs of the Apocalypse

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2020-12-31T10:28:48-04:00

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When All Your Dreams Come True (with book list)

Last updated on: December 31, 2020 at 10:28 am By Anne Kennedy

Well, I have been enjoying my blogging break—sleeping till 7 and everything—but I can’t pass up this opportunity to wish 2020 an enthusiastic and delighted good-bye. After praying for its demise all these months, I must celebrate this auspicious moment of finally getting what I want. Join me in a virtual glass of something warm and a slice of cheese! We made it…well, most of us did… Also, I have a variety of odds and ends that I wanted to... Read more

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Counting Down

2020-12-22T09:56:29-04:00

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Living with the List

Last updated on: December 22, 2020 at 9:56 am By Anne Kennedy

In the spirit of futility and a striving after the wind, I bought a new planner for the new year. I was allowed to put any title on it for no extra money, so I did. It’s very beautiful (must more than the picture indicates). It invited me, in the very front, to make a “mind map,” whatever that is, so I carefully copied this: Before him stood the Tree, his Tree, finished. If you could say that of a... Read more

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2020-12-21T10:27:12-04:00

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All the Banter None of the Substance Podcast and Links

Last updated on: December 21, 2020 at 10:27 am By Anne Kennedy

Good morning all! It’s the start of a busy day for me. I’ve got to do All The Things and hopefully not get buried under work or snow. Nevertheless, we did a nice short holiday podcast where we talk about nothing except that I, like Hitler, do like cake and champagne. Hope it makes your holiday all sparkly and bright! I don’t have a lot of links, sorry to say. I haven’t had time to read the internet to my... Read more

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2020-12-20T09:09:11-04:00

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Getting into the Spirit of the Thing

Last updated on: December 20, 2020 at 9:09 am By Anne Kennedy

I’m over at Stand Firm this morning. This was a fun thread—a Muslim anthropologically observes his roommates coping with Christmas (and gets into the spirit of the thing himself). They decorate a tree, and work on the menu, and argue about whether or not you can stuff your own stocking. As usual, many tweeters came on to correct this person for his inarguably prescient reflection on the way Americans approach this holiday, plus some obligatory accusations of anti-Semitism, and the... Read more

2020-12-18T10:01:38-04:00

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7 Takes on Snow and Stuff

Last updated on: December 18, 2020 at 10:01 am By Anne Kennedy

Well, here it is, Friday already. Friday with 41 inches of snow outside my window. So that’s pretty epic. Let’s see, are there any takes? One I remembered- too late for my exposition on why children (especially babies) are terrible oppressors, that one of my own children noticed this important fact a while ago. What she said was prescient and I will record it here for your benefit: Marigold (not her real name): Aren’t babies really prideful? Like cats. ‘Cause... Read more

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