Quote of the week:
”If they do not want to be mocked, let them stop being ridiculous.” 
- From Monday Evening, reporting on a car sales event that mocks jihadists.

Man, I can think of SO many areas of life where that saying applies.  Definitely a keeper.

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Decrepitude

A few selected articles from the last few years. Feel free to nominate others because really, I can't remember what all I've written.

9/11: five years on
Story from a picture
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If our lives are to have any meaning
What was lost
Cold and broken alleluia
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Artifacts of the long-gone man
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Because nature isn't waiting for us to wise up

Creative Commons stuff

I tried to figure out the Creative Commons and Wikimedia stuff but it was like doing your taxes in another language. Short version: it's OK if you copy my stuff as long as you give attribution and you're willing to share what you make of it with others. Here's the little logo:

This work by George Wiman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.