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2025-09-16T00:08:27-04:00

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To See the Light of God

Last updated on: September 16, 2025 at 12:08 am By Mary Pezzulo

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The lights went out at midnight. Michael was at his night shift and Adrienne was asleep in bed. I was sitting on the sofa with the computer on my lap, trying to coax myself to finish some writing. The lights flashed twice, and then they went dark. The electric fan and the window air conditioner slowly groaned to a stop, and then the house was silent. All of a sudden, there was no light but the glowing laptop screen.... Read more

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2025-09-11T03:03:33-04:00

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“Violence” was the Very Last Word

Last updated on: September 11, 2025 at 3:03 am By Mary Pezzulo

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(Just a warning to my readers: this post is going to describe some graphic violence.) I saw a man shot today. If you have social media, you couldn’t possibly have missed that video of the shooting of Charlie Kirk. I was scrolling through the news and there it was. It started to play automatically. There was Kirk, the notorious right-wing influencer who once called Martin Luther King “awful“ and “not a good person.” Charlie Kirk who said “I think it’s worth... Read more

2025-09-10T01:00:50-04:00

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The Girl Has No Arms: My Thoughts on the Epstein Book

Last updated on: September 10, 2025 at 1:00 am By Mary Pezzulo

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So: now, we’ve seen Trump’s drawing of the girl in the Epstein book. Just yesterday, a congressional panel published a redacted copy of the infamous book that convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell put together for the wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Maxwell had all of Epstein’s friends contribute pictures and notes for his book; there are all kinds of famous names in there. We learned about the book’s existence in July, when the Wall Street Journal... Read more

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2025-09-09T02:00:42-04:00

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An Appalachian Felix Culpa

Last updated on: September 9, 2025 at 2:00 am By Mary Pezzulo

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The noise began as I was driving to the bank. In fact, I was driving to the bank to withdraw the money for the very last payment on my car. And my car was the thing that was making the noise. It started with a loud, rough, squealing sound whenever I hit the accelerator. It wasn’t until I opened the door to let Michael out to get the money, that I realized the engine was also knocking. I told myself this... Read more

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2025-09-03T01:04:03-04:00

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On Trump’s Planned Lawless Invasion of Chicago

Last updated on: September 3, 2025 at 1:04 am By Mary Pezzulo

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Our country has a law, and the law ought to count for something. It’s not that laws can’t be changed. If you and I think a law is wrong, we can work to change it. But laws are important, because if you don’t have any law at all, then your rights will not be recognized. That’s what laws ought to do: protect people’s rights. A law that does that is a good law. The law of our land is this:... Read more

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2025-09-01T02:39:14-04:00

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We Will Go Rejoicing, Bringing in the Sheaves

Last updated on: September 1, 2025 at 2:39 am By Mary Pezzulo

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The sunflowers are drying out for the year. Some of the Lemon Queens and the Autumn Beauties are still giving me a firework display of blooms, but every one of the great big Mammoth sunflowers is drooping over. I’m keeping them upright in the garden as a feast for the birds. Last year I had only one goldfinch on my sunflowers, and this year I have at least six, plus my friends the cardinals. When I come out to pick... Read more

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2025-08-30T02:53:24-04:00

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Never An Ordinary Life

Last updated on: August 30, 2025 at 2:53 am By Mary Pezzulo

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They say the mad king is dying. I don’t know exactly when the president’s frail health stopped being an observation that a small group of people were pointing out, and became a mainstream joke. I feel as if it happened within the last fifteen days or so. But now the pictures of his badly bruised hand have become a meme. His increasingly unhinged rants at press conferences have become a punchline. The vice president mentioned, in an interview, that... Read more

2025-08-28T08:46:07-04:00

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Another Mass Shooting in a Nation Without Hope

Last updated on: August 28, 2025 at 8:46 am By Mary Pezzulo

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A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope. A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope. A nation that says that soothing the paranoia of grown-ups is more important than safeguarding the lives of children is a nation without hope. A nation that says that fattening the bottom lines of stockholders is more important than saving the lives of children is a nation without hope. A nation that says pacifying gun... Read more

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2025-08-24T23:59:16-04:00

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On MAGA, Cruelty, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Disabled Son

Last updated on: August 24, 2025 at 11:59 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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My aunt has a disabled son. My cousin, several years younger than me, is autistic, as I am. Many, many people in my family surely are. But in the 90s, a verbal girl with a normal or higher IQ wasn’t likely to get diagnosed with autism. My cousin is a boy who was nonverbal until he got speech therapy, and is hovering just around the line of where you’d diagnose an intellectual disability. He got his diagnosis. Not every... Read more

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2025-08-23T01:07:17-04:00

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On Dobson, Discipline, and Don Bosco

Last updated on: August 23, 2025 at 1:07 am By Mary Pezzulo

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Somehow, my posts on the death of spanking enthusiast James Dobson was extremely widely shared yesterday. I’m still getting notifications about them every few minutes. Most of the comments are positive, but there’ve been a few clinkers. It seems there were two types of people who reacted to Dobson’s death yesterday. Most of the responses I saw were from people like me, Christian and not, who despised the man because all he ever did was advocate evil and claim he... Read more

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