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Month: May 2012

RIP Thomas Fuentes, 1948-2012

  • Politics
May 29, 2012December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Thomas Alexander Fuentes, long time Director of Communications for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, and also Chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County, died in May 2012.  People had actually expected him to die the previous fall, but […]

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Our Second Linguistic (Phonemic) Test

  • Miscellaneous
May 8, 2012June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A few months ago we gave our readers a phonemic test about the distinction between pen and pin.  Now we will try our second, on a much newer shift that is obscuring a distinction that most English speakers used to […]

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Prison not the Answer: the Veterans-Only Court and Brother’s Keepers

  • Religion
May 7, 2012June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

What these war veterans do for each other models what the Body of Christ, especially in smaller groups, is supposed to be like.  These vets are “moving from a highly disciplined environment where violence is normal to an unstructured environment […]

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New York City Transit’s Inconvenient Pricing

  • Miscellaneous
May 5, 2012July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

New York City, much to my disappointment, has discontinued its transit one-day unlimited ride ticket.  [You can still get such a ticket for a week, but I’m never in town that long.]  What you can get is cards with $10.70 […]

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Urbanist Observations On A Bachelor Spring Break

  • Miscellaneous
May 4, 2012July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

[I apologize that I have not gotten pictures for this post, unlike the one about my San Andreas road trip two years ago. That I took with three friends; this one I went by myself. So I took very few […]

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St. Paul, Bad Words, and Greed

  • Religion
May 3, 2012June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In a recent post, the one on the fire pits [which turned into a website and a Facebook page, I’m told] I used an eight letter b-word which pushed the Kennel Kode to the limit.  I thought it justified in […]

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