Culture

Brewin’ A Pot

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I’ve lost track of the times i’ve given up coffee (and just switching to decaf does not count). Sometimes it has lasted just a few weeks and other times a year or more.
Currently I’m drinking coffee and am headed to the kitchen to brew a pot of Tully’s Dutchman’s Blend…I haven’t been all that happy with the flavor or punch of the Peet’s Major Dickason’s Blend that also sits in the freezer.
Once I have a cup ready I’ll slide over and spend a few minutes checking out Smelling the Coffee which is a new blog About coffee, coffee shops, wireless & atmosphere, and blogging. Oh, and dogs.

Dave, do let me know when you post pics of the dogs so they can board the Friday Ark.

The Dancer and the Dance

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Arthur Silber is back again. Both at Once Upon a Time…

I offer these stories not to condemn the genuinely great and revolutionary achievements of the West, or to challenge the profound, inestimable worth of what we generally refer to as “Enlightenment values.” I offer them to make a more modest suggestion: that the fundamental approach inculcated in all of us by our cultural traditions of thousands of years does not represent the only way of viewing the universe and our place in it.

And at a new site called The Sacred Moment where he has aleady reposted his important series On Torture.

Make Arthur a regular read!

Turning Off the Cross

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PZ has discovered that the Skinner’s Butte cross has been off the Eugene, OR butte since 1997:

I learn that another Eugene landmark, the Skinner’s Butte cross, has been gone since 1997. I remember that obnoxious thing glowing up at the top of the butte during my entire stay there (we lived just west of the butte, and could look down the street to watch rock-climbers scale it), and I’m glad to hear it’s gone.

Neither PZ or his commenters note the time honored tradition of visiting high schoolers turning off the cross – reportedly a common occurrence when state basketball championships were held in Eugene.

Gosh, I’m surprised that PZ did not turn it off once or twice when he lived there.