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I listened to Bob Dylan’s song "With God On Our Side” (link below) today, and it occurred to me that there might be something to it. And I also noticed that the song refers to “god”, rather than the “Gods”, a singular, monotheist god, and the people who believe that they have god on their side are monotheists. We polytheists worry as much about which God is on the other guy’s side as much we crow about the Gods (if any) on our side, and we have no problem imagining that the other guy actually ...

Sunday on the ice, it's -4°c and the sun is coming up. Just over 10 and my son is watching cartoons in the living room.

I am kinda struggling with school at the moment, mainly because I have way to much to do and I can't focus. I have three essays to write this month and I'm just stuck. I know what I want to write about I just don't know how I want to write about it. I also have these BA pages to go over and get to my teacher in two days. I finished it, my brother is going over it ...

I got to go out to one of my favorite local bookstores today so here is what I got this time around:

The Princess of Cleves by Madame De Lafayete

Roma: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Steven Saylor

The Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon

Grendel by John Gardner

The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble

Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago

For quite a while I have thought that the two major parties in the U.S.A. would come to an end, but I couldn’t tell what the proximate causes would be; although the Republican Party was destroyed by W, and the Tea Partiers are completing that destruction, but it was unclear how the Democrats would destroy their party. Now it looks like Obamacare is the instrument that the Dems created to destroy their party.

Not only is the website for enrolling not working well, but I just saw ...

It was a pretty hectic day. I made orange bat pops and skulls. Didn't get to make the black skulls like I wanted, didn't have time. I wrapped up my home made sweets in sandwich bags tied with ribbon. It's just because of germs. I remember a while ago hearing people being advised to give the children wrapped or packaged sweets amid those whole glass and razor blades and stuff concerns but it also applies to germs. Children are germ magnets after all.

I wanted to do purple ones but ...