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• Romney deeply uncivil (2)
  • Mary Lupin: "Thank you for your recounting of Mormon mythology regarding the practice of posthumous baptism. There are two problems with the..." Feb 05, 11:19 AM
  • JL Fuller: "Readers should be aware that the ordinance is strictly an offering. It makes no demands on the departed. A living..." Feb 05, 9:00 AM
• hope and that idiot Hesiod (4)
  • Mary Lupin: "Using the relatively powerless as tools is something very animal and therefore human. It seems odd - given its ubiquity..." Feb 01, 10:54 AM
• more on hope (4)
  • Mary Lupin: "I, being quite a bit closer to the end of the mortal coil than you probably are, find it both..." Feb 01, 10:50 AM
  • Cathy Sander: ""thermodynamic oblivion"...well, that's not quite the full story, of course. Once consciousness goes kaput, the bacteria that normally exists with..." Feb 01, 3:28 AM
• Philip Levine, a poem (2)
  • Mary Lupin: "Sometimes with Levine I think there's a cultural quality I'm simply missing. I have friends who love his work, and..." Feb 01, 10:44 AM