http://pilgrimoftheabsolute.com i believed i would understand but it is late and i know nothing except laughter and weeping Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:22:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en more intolerance from the tolerant left, this time among the ranks of school kids - learn 'em young! similar tolerance exhibited in the art world , no surprise there. a gay acquaintance argued that free speech doesn't prevent consequences, and while i agree there, i ... http://pilgrimoftheabsolute.com/2008/11/13/tolerance-and-civil-rights-notables/ http://pilgrimoftheabsolute.com/2008/10/27/snl-does-biden-and-murtha/ Many people at the time of the American founding would have preferred a world without slavery but nonetheless opposed abolition. Such people - Thomas Jefferson was one - reasoned that, given the world as it was, with slavery woven into the fabric of society just as it had often been ... http://pilgrimoftheabsolute.com/2008/10/20/against-the-tide/ http://pilgrimoftheabsolute.com/2008/09/30/yes-on-prop-8/ http://pilgrimoftheabsolute.com/2008/09/23/307/ In the relatively short life of my coffeehouse-pipe-dream’s inching itself towards reality, today was a pretty big day. After a promising meeting with some folks who know who and what I need to know, I went around to some of the newer coffeehouses in the city, to take pictures, ... http://pilgrimoftheabsolute.com/2008/09/23/hail-mary/ Latest Poll Reveals 430 New Demographics That Will Decide Election http://pilgrimoftheabsolute.com/2008/08/20/catching-up-on-politics/ UPDATED DOS View Larger Map http://pilgrimoftheabsolute.com/2008/06/06/not-now-but-so-soon-from-now/ heading down to the florida keys on a boat trip with my oldest brother. his sales pitch was much beer, shooting guns of the bow, and scuba diving/snorkeling down to an underwater park to see the Christ of the Deep. i was sold. http://pilgrimoftheabsolute.com/2008/05/23/vacation-time/ Pure beauty, benediction: you are all I gathered From a life that was bitter and confused, In which I learned about evil, my own and not my own. Wonder kept seizing me, and I recall only wonder, Risings of the sun over endless green, a universe Of grasses, and flowers opening to the first light, Blue ... http://pilgrimoftheabsolute.com/2008/05/16/milosz-balm/