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The End of Church? Physical Barriers to Oneness Eroding
Will church transform in American life? Two separate and seemingly unrelated articles on religion from the Huffington Post newsletter in my inbox reinforced a conclusion I’ve been talking and writing...
View ArticleTrump, Cruz Both Climate Change Panderers
Just a brief reminder today as Americans continue to contemplate an increasingly chaotic Presidential Election landscape: both of the Republican Party’s front-running candidates deny the very reality...
View ArticleCueto Sails Through a Great Outing as Giants Stop Dodgers
The Giants’ Johnny Cueto threw a stopper on the Dodgers tonight as he pitched a dazzler for a 4-3 win that was saved (with some stress) by Santiago Casilla in the ninth. Cueto won his third straight of...
View ArticleToday Marks 37 Years of Joy
My incredibly amazing, talented, creative, gorgeous wife CJ and I have been married 37 years today. We have been through so much together. Through it all, she has been a partner, a cheerleader, a...
View ArticleCatching Up With the Giants. Whew
Going into today’s game at home with the Miami Marlins, the orange-and-black have dropped from 7-5 and second place in the NL West to a fourth-place record of 8-10. That span includes a four-game home...
View ArticleGiants Drop Another One Thanks to Pitching
The Giants took a tough loss yesterday, dropping a tense game to the Miami Marlins, 5-4. I’m chalking this one up to pitching breakdown. As I figure it, any time the team scores four or more runs, they...
View ArticleGiants Explode. Good Thing, Too, Because Pitching Was Off
The Giants rode their bats to a 16-hit outpouring to a 13-9 win over the hapless San Diego Padres this afternoon. This one goes squarely in the WBO (Won By Offense) column, bringing the new ShaferStat...
View ArticleOuch! Giants Fail to Appear at CitiField as Mets Use Them for Batting Practice
The Giants managed to act as if they weren’t at CitiField yesterday as they blended nicely into the turf and allowed the Mets to wipe their cleats on them, losing by one of their biggest margins in...
View ArticleNiners Baffle Me in Draft
As you well know by now, I’m not a big fan of 49ers’ GM Trent Baalke. I’m also pretty skeptical about the newly hired head coach Chip Kelly. Their (presumably) joint performance in the 2016 draft has...
View ArticleMy New Pet Peeve: Videos That Play on Page Load
For some reason, there has been a significant increase recently in my experiencing webpages that load and immediately begin blasting video clips to my headset. This behavior has always annoyed me, but...
View ArticleGiants Get Fatter in Cincy
After losing the series closer Friday night to the red-hot New York Mets by a score of 6-5, the Giants have now enjoyed two wins over MLB’s worst run-margin team, the Cincinnati Reds. The first one was...
View ArticleInjuries Starting to Pop Up for G-Men
It could be — and has been — argued that the Giants’ failure to repeat their World Series title in 2015 was at least in large part attributable to key injuries. Certainly the team had more than its...
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You Go, Elizabeth! If Dems Are Looking for a Trump Attack Dog, They’ve Found Her
Elizabeth Warren: HRC’s Attack Dog? Traditional political strategy suggests that each major party’s ticket must include in the number two spot a real “attack dog” capable of going after the other...
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Niners Appear Ready to Screw Up Yet Another QB
It feels like about time that I cast a jaundiced eye in the direction of the San Francisco 49ers once again. And in the current state of things, that means essentially kibitzing about the quarterback...
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How the Right Distorts the Science of Climate Change
I was struck last week by a perfect example of how the Right in the United States and elsewhere manages to continue to play the role of climate change denier in the face of overwhelming scientific...
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Listen to a Real Journalist on the American Political Scene Today. Chillingly...
Long-time Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker John Pilger released a piece a few days ago that qualifies, in my mind at least, is one of the clearest and most insightful takes on the...
View ArticlePutting Accusations of Trump as a Fascist in Context
Almost from the moment he entered the Republican Party nominating process, Donald Trump has been the target of accusations from the Right and Left that he is a fascist. Everyone from his primary...
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Big News! More Jobs in Clean Energy Than Coal & Oil for First Time!
There was some great news for those of us advocating on behalf of Planet Earth today, as the United States reported that, for the first time, employment in the solar energy industry is greater than the...
View ArticleBad News :-(. Feds Clear Offshore Fracking for CA Coast
According to news reports, two key federal agencies have given the green light to fracking off the coast of California. This is a dangerously stupid decision. Neither the Bureau of Safety and...
View ArticleHow Cool! SpaceX Lands Rocket on Drone Ship, Captures it on Video
The private space exploration company SpaceX captured on an on-board video camera the third successful return landing of a rocket on a floating drone ship. I love this stuff! Don’t you?
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