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Gardening Is A Four Letter Word

March 2nd, 2004 · 1 Comment · Home Truths

It was nice enough Sunday to get out in the yard and do a little cleanup. We have an ornamental trash-catcher bush in the front yard - I think it’s some kind of hawthorn, and I think it’s some kind of ugly nasty encroacher that’s going to see its last spring. Not only [...]

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Tuesdays

March 2nd, 2004 · Comments Off · SABRE2th Tigress: Book 'em, Dano.

I hate Tuesdays.
I’m on the international desk. Which means that I get to take calls from crabby prima donna apparel buyers in Greece (frickin’ Greece, man) need to book an earlier flight to Milan. Right. Now. In business class. Or there would be hell to pay. [...]

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Amazing Race Finishes Filming

March 2nd, 2004 · Comments Off · Clan: McTiVo

According to Edward Hasbrouck’s excellent travel blog:

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One Last Thing

March 2nd, 2004 · Comments Off · Good and Joyful Things

A friend passed this one along: “When marriage between
gays was by rite”

Boswell’s book, The Marriage of Likeness: Same Sex Unions in Pre- Modern Europe, lists in detail some same sex union ceremonies found in ancient church liturgical documents. One Greek 13th century “Order for Solemnisation of Same Sex Union” having invoked St Serge and St [...]

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